At least five people were wounded in a shooting Monday night near a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. The suspects, described by witnesses as three masked white men, are still at large.
For most of America, Columbus Day is coming up this Monday October 12, except in a handful of cities where the celebration of Christopher Columbus has been replaced by Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Because, you know, one can’t exactly discover a new place if nations of people were already living there for centuries.
Daniel Jorgensen, formerly a touring member with the Christian electronica act Owl City, has been charged with criminal sexual contact and child luring. Jorgensen is accused of having sexual contact with a 14-year-old fan on a beach in Atlantic City in 2013, as well as attempting to lure the girl to his hotel room.…
A private school in Minneapolis, Minnesota took their students on a field trip to an adult novelty store and parents were pissed. The class, which was made up of about a dozen middle and high school-aged students, participated in a workshop allowing them to ask educators questions and learn about safer sex products.…
If you feel shockwaves emanating from the Midwest, that’s because Minneapolis is right in the middle of a Very Serious Local News Emergency. The ABC affiliate received a tip from their unnamed but presumably very credible law enforcement sources that Mayor Betsy Hodges was seen with a “known criminal,” flashing gang…
Meet Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Jeff Wagner, who has ambled out of one of Minnesota's 10,000 beautiful lakes to govern the fuck out of the bigger and stinkier of the Twin Cities.
At some not-so-distant point in the future, art history courses in college might spend as many as two whole lecture periods showing students cat videos from the internet's early adolescence, when domestic feline ribaldry was the pinnacle of high art. The Walker Art Center, "a well-regarded museum of modern art in…
Nine Native Americans have served in the Minnesota state legislature since the state's founding, and all of them have been men. But on Tuesday, The Land of 10,000 Lakes chose via special election its first ever Native American woman to serve on its state legislature, and the first Native American lesbian to ever serve…
A trans woman is charged with fatally stabbing a man outside a Minneapolis bar early this month. But she says she and her friends were acting in self-defense after the man rushed them and called them derogatory names.
A Minneapolis school district tried to prevent two female students from walking hand in hand in a pep rally's royalty court — but then they changed their minds. Result: cheers and standing ovations for the pair.
Researchers at Forbes have compiled a list of places to be for working moms. Topping their Best Cities lineup is Minneapolis, followed by Washington, D.C. Where don't you want to raise your brood? Las Vegas and Florida get low rankings.
A Minneapolis bar has launched a "Twin Titties Series," in which women enter their breasts for a chance to win gift certificates. But it's okay, because it's for breast cancer research!
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Next month, Minneapolis' Torch Theater will be presenting staged version of three classic episodes of the Twin Cities-set Mary Tyler Moore Show. Different cast, though. [StarTribune]
