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When the Minnesota Fringe Festival kicks off on Thursday, there will be 169 shows you can see over 11 days at 19 venues.

When the Blue Line opened almost exactly 10 years ago, savvy partiers were among the first to understand its potential, plotting out all-night bar crawls that started at quirky pubs in south Minneapolis and inevitably ended, well, somewhere seamy.

Maybe Hollow Boys didn't fully exist until Cole Benson came along. "With every other bass player that we had, we were trying to shoehorn them into our music," says Ali Jaafar.

Community activists are standing by one of their own after Al Flowers says he was assaulted by police at his home in south Minneapolis.

Police responded to reports of shots fired at about 12:15 a.m. in the area of Highway 3 and 3rd Street West.

With America's bridge infrastructure rapidly deteriorating, wireless sensor solutions provide low cost remote damage detection and on-going health monitoring.

Comedian Amber Preston was born and raised in Fargo, but now feels she's put some distance between herself and her hometown, figuratively and literally.

After 85 years of carrying traffic over the Mississippi River, the historically significant 10th Avenue bridge in Minneapolis is showing its age, with visible signs of crumbling concrete and exposed rebar.

In fact, the AI Season 14 auditions are currently underway, with the latest one to be held in Nashville, on July 30, 2014.

That's the day Derisha Waddell knew she and her now 6-year-old daughter had to leave North Minneapolis.

Nice Ride Minnesota, the Twin Cities bicycle-sharing system, is loaning out 140 orange bikes for the next four months to new riders in low-income neighborhoods.

James T. Alfred's comedic coming-of-age narrative, "A Brown Tale" returns to the Twin Cities Saturday, Sept.

The Book of Genesis tells us about "In the beginning" and while some may revolt or resist against the acknowledgement of creation and/or evolution, the spirit of creativity helps us to evolve, which specifically defines what a teacher does---create plans and ideas then plant them into individuals so that they may evolve into all the things that are ... (more)

Just after midnight Saturday morning, Minneapolis cops showed up at longtime community activist Al Flowers's South Side residence.

Dance company to perform at Fringe Festival The six-member company will do five performances at Minneapolis-St.

Victim named in north Minneapolis killing The shooting happened Thursday evening in a convenience store parking lot.

Apr 8, 2014; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love shoots in the XXX quarter against the San Antonio Spurs forward Matt Bonner at Target Center.

Jul 21, 2014; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Twins left fielder Josh Willingham and first baseman Kendrys Morales celebrate after scoring runs in the second inning against the Cleveland Indians at Target Field.

Solar car race to end at University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project team is among the 10 competitors in 1,700-mile race Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/minnesota/2014/07/27/solar-car-race-minnesota-university/13237039/ About 10 solar cars from colleges around the world are ... (more)

The Roaring '20s live on in pop culture as a high-spirited whirl of a decade, full of dancing flappers, dapper gents and an overall air of optimism.