Arts and Culture

Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right both writing and starring in counterculture classics like "Easy Rider," has died. He was 79.

Bookseller Annie Metcalf recommends a novel that offers a "sensual and bold exploration of female love and pain and appetite."

Rhythmically Speaking presents “The Cohort.” Plus, Art Hounds recommend an Iranian cultural festival and music performed in trees.

Téa Obreht's new novel is set against a familiar old West backdrop, but it tells a fresh story of two people, both haunted in their own ways — a tough frontier woman and an immigrant camel driver.

His new book 'How To Be Antiractist' is a manual to follow; the author writes that "being an antiracist requires persistent self-awareness, constant self-criticism, and regular self-examination."

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of Woodstock, the huge three-day concert that came to symbolize the 1960s’ counterculture. Two now-Minnesotans who attended went on to very different lives, but have fond memories of the event, which shaped a generation.

Joshua Foer, author of "Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything,” spoke at the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival about improving your memory. 

This spring, Public Art St. Paul opened its sidewalk poetry competition to works in Dakota, Hmong, Somali and Spanish — and some of those poems are among the winners. The city will begin stamping the new crop of poems in concrete this month. 

By celebrating those who applied the substance as a drug, Walter A. Brown aims to raise awareness — and to demolish what remains of the myth that scientific progress is driven by rigorous dispassion.

The students are all survivors of sexual abuse that occurred at the theater company in the 1970s. A statement from the company did not say how much money was agreed to in the settlement.