Arts and Culture

Scott County prosecutors have re-filed sexual assault charges against a former Renaissance Festival manager. Authorities dropped the case a year ago after the alleged victim said she was unable to testify.

In the 1920s, a Black couple tried to buy their dream home in an all-white neighborhood in St. Paul. They were not welcomed, but intimidated, harassed and threatened. Their story is being told on stage at the History Theatre in St. Paul through Oct. 24.

A restaurant in Washington, D.C., is offering donated welcome meals of traditional food to newly arriving Afghans. The chef cooking those meals knows what it's like to leave home and family behind.

Leading up to Halloween, Jordyn Stocks of Piragis Northwoods Company in Ely, Minn., recommended the mystery novel “The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” by Stuart Turton.

The new public art tribute is located outside of Hibbing High School, where Dylan graduated in 1959. It includes lyric fragments from over 50 songs he wrote and an inscription of the Nobel Prize in literature that the musician was awarded in 2016.

“When Stars Are Scattered” is the story of Omar Mohamed's years at a refugee camp in Kenya. He cared for his brother and found the courage to dream big. The book was a National Book Awards finalist.

Host Angela Davis talks to Gwen Westerman about poetry, Dakota history, quilting and how she’ll use her new role to draw attention to underrepresented poets in the state. 

Don’t despair! That’s the message from climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. There is a path forward when it comes to saving the planet. And it begins with you.

The influence of Korean culture has reached the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary: 26 new words related to Korean culture were added and 11 words were revised.

Zoo staff searched for the bird, known as Gladys, and predicted she was somewhere within the zoo. Gladys was found injured on the side of a road Thursday morning, but died before zoo staff could treat her.