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We are Going Out, the Minnesota Star Tribune's guide to the best food, drink, concerts, theater and culture 🕺 we have fun here
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Ain’t nothing but a Ukrainian thing tonight, but there’s a lot more to choose from over the next week for live music in the Twin Cities. @stribgoingout.startribune.com
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The Big Gigs: 8 top concerts to see in the Twin Cities this week
Highlights for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 include Burna Boy, DakhaBrakha, the Suburbs, Nicholas David’s release party and Shaun LaBelle featuring Najee.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ain’t nothing but a Ukrainian thing tonight, but there’s a lot more to choose from over the next week for live music in the Twin Cities. @stribgoingout.startribune.com
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Day before Thanksgiving travel at MSP airport, 2002 🦃✈️
📸: Richard Sennott from the Star Tribune archives
📸: Richard Sennott from the Star Tribune archives
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Day before Thanksgiving travel at MSP airport, 2002 🦃✈️
📸: Richard Sennott from the Star Tribune archives
📸: Richard Sennott from the Star Tribune archives
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Good beer isn’t enough for Twin Cities breweries to draw a crowd anymore. Here are some other ways they’re doing it.
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With beer sales down, 15 ways Twin Cities taprooms are brewing up new customers
Yoga classes, magicians, saunas and (gasp) even jazz players are being used by breweries to draw customers as beer sales slump.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Good beer isn’t enough for Twin Cities breweries to draw a crowd anymore. Here are some other ways they’re doing it.
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The popular music venue and pizza makers entered into an agreement to create Wrestaurant, which was widely praised but closed in less than two years.
Palace Theater sues Wrecktangle Pizza for $1.6 million over failed restaurant partnership
The popular music venue and pizza makers entered into an agreement to create Wrestaurant, which was widely praised but closed in less than two years.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The popular music venue and pizza makers entered into an agreement to create Wrestaurant, which was widely praised but closed in less than two years.
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At 90, African art specialist is selling the gallery he thinks of as ‘a gift from God’
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November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
At 90, African art specialist is selling the gallery he thinks of as ‘a gift from God’
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‘Queering Indigeneity’ debuts at the Minnesota Museum of American Art >> new from me for the @startribune.com @stribgoingout.startribune.com
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November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
‘Queering Indigeneity’ debuts at the Minnesota Museum of American Art >> new from me for the @startribune.com @stribgoingout.startribune.com
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I finally got a Labubu! And then I ate it. Get your own & all the tasty food news of the week ---> www.startribune.com/x2-pastries-...
Find Labubu macarons and more must-have treats at a new St. Paul bakery
Plus Krispy Kreme is almost here, three new eateries opening in Kingfield, cocktails in Northeast and more food news.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I finally got a Labubu! And then I ate it. Get your own & all the tasty food news of the week ---> www.startribune.com/x2-pastries-...
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The great Salman Rushdie examines mortality from myriad angles in "The Eleventh Hour," a quintet of stories just out from Random House. Here's my review for @stribgoingout.startribune.com: www.startribune.com/salman-rushd...
Review: Salman Rushdie still at top of his powers with ‘Eleventh Hour’
Fiction: His elegant short fiction probes the shadows of mortality and loss.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The great Salman Rushdie examines mortality from myriad angles in "The Eleventh Hour," a quintet of stories just out from Random House. Here's my review for @stribgoingout.startribune.com: www.startribune.com/salman-rushd...
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Did we really need another version of Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 epic? Maybe not, but Jeremy Messersmith needed to get his adaptation out of his head by today, a story that exemplifies the song’s lasting “all-consuming” power.
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Hear one famed Minnesota songwriter's 'Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald' remake
Jeremy Messersmith’s idea to rerecord Gordon Lightfoot’s epic 1976 song for the shipwreck's 50th anniversary became “all-consuming.”
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November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Did we really need another version of Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 epic? Maybe not, but Jeremy Messersmith needed to get his adaptation out of his head by today, a story that exemplifies the song’s lasting “all-consuming” power.
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Anna Graves opens for Stevie Nicks on Wednesday in St. Paul with a new record deal after recent dates with the Head & the Heart.
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Meet the Minnesota farm girl opening for Stevie Nicks
Anna Graves is already an industry vet at 28, but she returned home to restart her career with new inspiration.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Anna Graves opens for Stevie Nicks on Wednesday in St. Paul with a new record deal after recent dates with the Head & the Heart.
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Photographer Alex Kormann and I went Up North last week to talk to people along Lake Superior about why "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" still resonates so much, especially this time of year.
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‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ song is a tribute to the shipwreck and Lake Superior
Sit on a barstool along Lake Superior in November, and you might well hear Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad written soon after the ship sank.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Photographer Alex Kormann and I went Up North last week to talk to people along Lake Superior about why "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" still resonates so much, especially this time of year.
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Why has Gordon Lightfoot’s song endured, even gaining popularity in recent years thanks to TikTok? We took a look at the reasons why the legend lives on 🚢
‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ song is a tribute to the shipwreck and Lake Superior
Sit on a barstool along Lake Superior in November, and you might well hear Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad written soon after the ship sank.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Why has Gordon Lightfoot’s song endured, even gaining popularity in recent years thanks to TikTok? We took a look at the reasons why the legend lives on 🚢
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November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Siddharth Kara's searing "The Zorg" is easily one of this year's top five nonfiction titles. Out now from @stmartinspress.bsky.social. Here's my review for @stribgoingout.startribune.com: www.startribune.com/the-zorg-kar...
Review: A shocking act at sea damns ‘The Zorg’
Nonfiction: Siddharth Kara’s account of a slave ship is one of the year’s finest books.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Siddharth Kara's searing "The Zorg" is easily one of this year's top five nonfiction titles. Out now from @stmartinspress.bsky.social. Here's my review for @stribgoingout.startribune.com: www.startribune.com/the-zorg-kar...
What we saw at Wednesday’s premiere in Minneapolis differed from preview performances of the Broadway-aimed Prince production ☔️
I would edit 4 U: How the 'Purple Rain' musical changed from previews
What we saw at Wednesday’s premiere in Minneapolis differed from preview performances of the Broadway-aimed Prince production.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What we saw at Wednesday’s premiere in Minneapolis differed from preview performances of the Broadway-aimed Prince production ☔️
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9 revelations in the new Hüsker Dü and Replacements box sets. Gift link.
9 revelations in the new Hüsker Dü and Replacements box sets
The legendary Minnesota bands’ mid-’80s eras are on loud display in new multi-LP collections, but do we learn anything new?
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November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
9 revelations in the new Hüsker Dü and Replacements box sets. Gift link.
Award-winning food journalist Raphael Brion will offer restaurant reviews and commentaries on Minnesota’s dining scene. Here’s his first column🍴
Meet our new restaurant critic. This is why he won’t be anonymous.
Award-winning food journalist Raphael Brion will offer restaurant reviews and commentaries on Minnesota’s dining scene.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Award-winning food journalist Raphael Brion will offer restaurant reviews and commentaries on Minnesota’s dining scene. Here’s his first column🍴
The new musical’s stars and VIP attendees cut loose at the real-life club following Wednesday’s premiere at the State Theatre ☔️
'Purple Rain' cast returned to First Ave for opening-night afterparty
The new musical’s stars and VIP attendees cut loose at First Avenue in Minneapolis following Wednesday’s premiere at the State Theatre.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The new musical’s stars and VIP attendees cut loose at the real-life club following Wednesday’s premiere at the State Theatre ☔️
The world premiere of the Prince musical is promised for Broadway. But is it good enough? 🤔
Review: ‘Purple Rain’ gets our critics delirious, sort of
The world premiere of the Prince musical is promised for Broadway. But is it good enough?
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November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The world premiere of the Prince musical is promised for Broadway. But is it good enough? 🤔
Spike Lee, Dave Pirner are among those in attendance at Minneapolis opening ☔️
Tonight they’re gonna party like it’s the world premiere of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ musical
Spike Lee, Dave Pirner among those in attendance at Minneapolis opening.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Spike Lee, Dave Pirner are among those in attendance at Minneapolis opening ☔️
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We talked to Ryan Reynolds (yes, that one) about his new wine🍷
Ryan Reynolds says Minnesota is an underdog — and perfect for his wine
We talked to the “Deadpool” star, who is now selling his new wine brand Ugly Estates exclusively in Minnesota.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We talked to Ryan Reynolds (yes, that one) about his new wine🍷
It’s the last call for downtown diners to savor the caramel rolls and comfort food from the long-running establishment ☕️
End of an era: Keys Cafe closing in downtown Minneapolis
It’s the last call for downtown diners to savor the caramel rolls and comfort food from the long-running establishment.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It’s the last call for downtown diners to savor the caramel rolls and comfort food from the long-running establishment ☕️
Owners John Ng and Lina Goh announced the closure Friday, citing an accumulation of challenges: pandemic recovery; a 2½-year road construction project that cut off access; and the recent sale of the Mill District building where they are located 🍜
Zen Box Izakaya closing after 20 years in downtown Minneapolis
The Mill District Japanese restaurant, known for its craft ramen and izakaya fare, will serve its final meal Nov. 22.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Owners John Ng and Lina Goh announced the closure Friday, citing an accumulation of challenges: pandemic recovery; a 2½-year road construction project that cut off access; and the recent sale of the Mill District building where they are located 🍜
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Marjorie Johnson amassed more than 3,000 state and county fair ribbons, more than 1,000 of them blue ribbons.
Marjorie Johnson, Minnesota’s ‘Blue Ribbon Baker,’ dies at 106
The famous home baker and media darling earned thousands of State Fair ribbons and inspired legions of bakers.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Marjorie Johnson amassed more than 3,000 state and county fair ribbons, more than 1,000 of them blue ribbons.