Arts and Culture

An old, dilapidated bank building on 42nd and Lyndale Avenue is getting a new life. Anissa Keyes is turning the Camden Park State Bank into an incubator for Black-owned businesses. She gave MPR News host Tom Crann a tour of the space before its soft opening on July 11.

A musical from St. Paul’s History Theater is telling the story of one of Duluth’s most notorious murders.

Alison Bechdel is the author of a comic strip that — nearly 40 years after its creation — is still getting attention. “Dykes To Watch Out For” ran from 1983 to 2008. It gained a worldwide cult following for its game-changing portrayal of American queer life set in Minneapolis.

The legendary guitarist was performing at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan, 40 miles northwest of Detroit.

AfroLatinidad — Vibras de la Diaspora not only celebrates and embraces Afro-Latinidad, but also educates on what it means to be Latino.

This Friday’s Big Books and Bold Ideas will be a conversation between host Kerri Miller and Leila Mottley, who penned “Nightcrawling,” one of the hottest books this summer. As we anticipate that, enjoy this Talking Volumes from 2021 with poet, activist and author Reginald Dwayne Betts. Like Mottley, he brings the deep questions about being a Black person in America to scrutiny in the most beautiful and haunting ways.

DALL-E is the AI image generator social media users are employing to crank out bizarre art memes that range from beautiful to horrifying.

Brook's work ranged from classical star-studded productions to radical experiments in theater. He reinvented “King Lear” and explored the fragility of civilization in the film “Lord of the Flies.”

“La.dy.like” offers a deep look at femininity, gender norms, sexism — and who gets to define the terms. Artists Andrea Bagdon and Spencer Gillespie open the exhibit this weekend in St. Paul

Can a life be measured in dollars and cents? That’s the question at the heart of Jakob Guanzon’s debut novel, “Abundance,” which follows a father and son living on the razor’s edge of poverty.