The life and death of malls
In the Fifties, the first malls promised a new and better future. But what had once been a socialist’s dream became capitalism’s triumph — and ultimately, one of its biggest failures.
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Burning down modernism: The making of Chris Larson’s Celebration/Love/Loss
Last year, the Artist Chris Larson quite literally set downtown St. Paul on fire. Forest Lewis, his assistant, explores what it was like to build a piece of art only to see it burn.
The boffins and the bees
How scientists from the University of Minnesota pioneer the peculiar science of the love lives of apples.
The painted bird
On wildlife art and the nature of beauty.
The next new economy
As we dig ourselves out of the recession, we are also building the stepping stones for a new economic paradigm, where trust is the new currency and sharing is more attractive than ownership.
Does the Midwest matter? Notes on the geography of greatness
Does the Midwest matter as more than just a talent farm for the coasts? Do young people have to leave to make it big? Can greatness take root here? And if it takes root, can it grow?
The war on milk
In Minnesota, public health officials and food freedom fighters are squared off in a battle that neither side is likely to win.
