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Sports

What to expect from Minnesota’s three most visible basketball teams this season

By Pat Borzi | 11/01/2019

A look at the Timberwolves, the Gopher men and Gopher women, in order of likely success.

Artscape

‘O my God’ explores faith, the state of the world — and God

By Pamela Espeland | 11/01/2019

ALSO: “The Song of Summer” at Mixed Blood; Fall Open Studios in Northeast Minneapolis; an evening with Jonatha Brooke; and more.

State Government

Is the Minnesota Capitol haunted? An investigation.

By Peter Callaghan | 10/31/2019

Halloween or no, it turns out the Minnesota Capitol’s ‘Shadows and Spirits’ tour is pretty light on the spirits.

Arts & Culture

Dan Wilson on songwriting — and how he comes up with his online tips

By Jim Walsh | 10/31/2019

Dan Wilson: “I have this philosophy about song ideas that not everyone agrees with, but I’m right and they’re wrong. Which is: I try to record every idea I have that I think is really good.”

Artscape

Art Attack and a new era at Northrup King; ‘Hausu’ at the Trylon

By Pamela Espeland | 10/31/2019

ALSO: The Danish String Quartet at ASI; Minnesota Orchestra with violinist Leila Josefowicz; and more.

Artscape

Chris Larson’s ‘Depression Groove’ to open; Park Square cancels two musicals

By Pamela Espeland | 10/30/2019

ALSO: Poetry Reading: Patrick Deeley at St. Thomas; Accordo at Westminster Hall; violist Nobuko Imai with Chamber Music Society; and more.

Artscape

Cine Latino film festival focus is on cinema with a conscience

By Pamela Espeland | 10/29/2019

ALSO: Release party for Prince’s book “The Beautiful Ones”; “Macbeth” at the James J. Hill House; and more.

Community Sketchbook

At Festival de las Calaveras, Latinx Minnesotans ‘remember, reflect, and connect with our ancestors’

By Jim Walsh | 10/28/2019

For three hours at CLUES, a few hundred people expressed, in a burst of artful ways, their love for their Latinx community and gone-not-gone loved ones, and about the thin lines between this world and the afterworld.

Sports

How the Houston Astros became world champions of terrible judgement

By Pat Borzi | 10/25/2019

If you’re wondering how a club could employ an executive with so little common sense, and how its media relations team could mangle crisis management so badly, it’s because … well, they’re the Astros, one of baseball’s most arrogant and tone-deaf organizations.

Books

Remembering Minneapolis’ most infamous bar: Moby Dick’s

By Bill Lindeke and Andy Sturdevant | 10/25/2019

Moby Dick’s was a bar “that folks visited just to say they’d been there.” An excerpt from the forthcoming book, “Closing Time: Saloons, Taverns, Dives, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities,” by Bill Lindeke and Andy Sturdevant.