This gave me a shock when I first moved to Minnesota. I previously lived in California, and California doesn't fret too much about tornadoes. On Wednesday at 1 p.m. cities across ... Read More

In the Heart of the Beast puppet theater's annual MayDay parade is one of Minneapolis' most loved events. The parade of puppets is on the first Sunday of May and ... Read More

Now you have more options that just plain eating your Easter candy. St. Paul coffee shop Java Train is celebrating Easter in a sugary, caffeinated, drinkable way. Until Easter, their ... Read More

The Theaters at Mall of America just want to let you know that you, yes you, can be the best dad in the world. And all you have to do ... Read More

Rain gardens are becoming very popular in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and around the Twin Cities, planted by cities, community groups, and homeowners. Rain gardens are native plants grown in a shallow ... Read More

The veteran City Pages Beer Festival has a new location this year. For 2009, the festival will be held in the downtown theater district, just off Hennepin & 10th Street ... Read More

The season is about to change at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in Como Park in St. Paul. The beautiful Winter Flower Show closed on March 15 and the Spring Flower ... Read More

After a couple of days of looking enviously at the other runners and joggers that are suddenly everywhere in the Twin Cities this week, I made it out for a ... Read More

This year, St. Patrick's Day is on a Tuesday. In Ireland, March 17 is a national holiday, but most of us here in the US have to work on St. ... Read More

When I was a student, we had a sofa in our yard, six feet tall grass, and various other things like items of cookware that never got washed and then ... Read More

At the end of last year, Surly Brewing was forced to end sales of growlers - half-gallon jugs of beer - from their Brooklyn Park brewery. Surly brewed a special ... Read More

Looking for something to entertain the kids the weekend after next? The 2009 Twin Cities Midwest Kids Festival comes to the Twin Cities on March 21-22 with children's entertainment, music, ... Read More

Here's a couple of new ways to look at the Twin Cities. Big Eye in the Sky is a project of photographer Ed Fink. His website has 360 degree panoramas of ... Read More

The next show at the SteppingStone Children's Theatre is Streetcar! Twin Cities Bound, a musical play set in St. Paul in the 1890s when streetcars were a magical new addition ... Read More

This year's South By Southwest music and film festival and conference in Austin, TX, is March 18-22, and Twin Cities bands and artists are well represented. The official lineup includes ... Read More

March can be a tough month to be outside. The snow is melting so we can't play in it, it's still cold, and most of the month is gloomy, muddy ... Read More

The Wilde Roast Cafe is holding a coffee cupping event on March 10. Coffee cupping is what those of us outside the trade know as coffee tasting. The Wilde Roast ... Read More