‘From the Land of Enlightenment to the Land of 10,000 Lakes’: 45th annual IndiaFest celebrates Indian culture and spirituality in St. Paul
IndiaFest in words and photos.
Jim Walsh
Jim Walsh, a former City Pages music editor and award-winning columnist for the Pioneer Press, writes about music and local culture. He is the author of the oral history “The Replacements: All Over but the Shouting.”
‘I trust Minnesota to fix this’: Walz exhorts rally on gun violence
“As someone who served 24 years in the military, I’m very familiar with these weapons. … I’ll tell you what I learned by that — and that is the damn things don’t belong on the streets of our country,” said Walz, flanked by a backdrop of Minnesota lawmakers and leaders.
Scenes from the FLOW Northside Arts Crawl: ‘Community coming together through the common cause of art’
“Collective Joy” is the theme of this year’s FLOW Northside Arts Crawl, a three-day celebration of the arts in North Minneapolis that opened Thursday at various venues and continues Friday through Saturday.
Black business women network, share challenges at Makers and Innovators event
“My experience has been amazing, but it is a struggle,” said Wendy Puckett. “You’ve got to find the money out there and be committed. … This event is great, because we can network and meet a lot of people in the same position.”
‘A community of immigrants’: Loring Park hosts a timely Twin Cities World Refugee Day
MinnPost took in the celebration, in words and photos.
‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’: Why Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech still resonates
“It’s an important speech,” said Augsburg University professor and historian William Green. “I think people should read it …. It provides a different view of what that moment in history meant to hundreds of thousands of Americans.”
‘Because I love Somalia and because I love America’: Minnesota celebrates Somali Independence Day and Week
Saturday’s Somali Independence Day Festival is the largest of its kind in North America, and kicked off a week’s worth of events.
Minneapolis shows its Pride and affirmation in 2019 parade
MinnPost took in the 2019 Ashley Rukes GLBT Pride parade, in photos and interviews.
‘A day of peace, love, and happiness’: Juneteenth in Minnesota commemorates end of slavery
The Bethune Park celebration on Saturday in Minneapolis will be just one of several Juneteenth events planned around the state.
Somber, inspiring art exhibit depicts themes of Humanize My Hoodie movement
Andre Wright’s photos are augmented by quotes from the likes of Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Michelle Alexander, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Meek Mill, and Ayanna Pressley. MinnPost took in the opening, in interviews and photos.
#BombaSquad and beyond: How the Minnesota Twins came to lead the league with players born in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba, and more
The Twins’ 40-man roster includes 17 Spanish-speaking country-born players, which, combined with the team’s support staff, makes for one of the most Latino-heavy franchises in pro sports.
U of M study offers deep-dive on evictions in north Minneapolis
The partial results of the project, “The Illusion Of Choice: Evictions and Profit in North Minneapolis,” were presented Thursday evening at the Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC).
Inaugural Indigenous Women’s March shines a light on the plight of missing and murdered native women
Photos and voices from “the first march of many.”
Scenes from Minneapolis’ 45th (and last?) MayDay parade
For 45 years, the MayDay parade has been a much-anticipated rite of spring, melding all things hippie-trippy with all things anarchist-punk-political, and injecting of fun, imagination and creativity into the winter-beaten citizens of Minneapolis.
There’s no good time to find out you have cancer — but the middle of a tight city council race seems like a particularly bad time
Jillia Pessenda had just turned 35 when she got the phone call from the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota.
‘First Person Plural,’ set in Cedar-Riverside, depicts intimacy and connection in a time of suspicion and division
The “First Person Plural” production brought together actors, artists, composers, musicians and community leaders from the Twin Cities’ Somali, film, theater, and music communities to tell a story of love conquering all.
What’s hip-hop architecture? ‘Hip-hop culture in built form’
Now a full-fledged movement, examples of hip-hop architecture can be found in the United States, as well as Australia, the Netherlands, and France.
Making Rondo documentary ignites a new generation
The students’ film, “Rondo: Beyond the Pavement,” will screen Friday (7 p.m.) and Saturday (2 p.m. and 7 p.m.) at The Family Place in St. Paul.
Fears, rights and the targeting of immigrants: A Q&A with the head consul at the Consulate of Mexico in St. Paul
These days, part of Gerardo Guerrero Gomez’s work is reassuring would-be immigrants, Dreamers, and Mexican-Americans about their adopted country’s creeping anti-immigrant attitudes.
Midway miracle: Saturday night at the Black Hart of St. Paul
The Black Hart bills itself on Twitter as “queer soccer bar in Midway neighborhood of St. Paul,” in homage to the spot’s former occupant at 1415 University, the Town House bar.
