Arts

Despite Rochester's reputation as something of a cultural backwater, the entrepreneurs are finding a strong music scene to spotlight.

"Good and evil -- they mix in the world," says author Soman Chainani. "Both sides claim to be good, both sides claim to be telling the truth." His latest in the series is called 'Quests for Glory'.

A new book worries that growing up with smartphones and the Internet has been harmful to a generation of kids. Critic Annalisa Quinn says intergenerational carping is a long, and unhelpful tradition.

Wenner Media, the company founded by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, cites a desire "to best position the brand for future growth."

The national contest to design a federal postage stamp has gone to the Minnesotan Hautman family three years in a row.

After being cast mainly as an outlaw or an oddball early in his career, Harry Dean Stanton would later became a film star.

A new play at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis tackles the question: Can virtual-reality crime have real-world consequences?

Today's Morning Edition music is ahead of opening night for a world premiere production by the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis.

You won't find the pawpaw, which tastes like a cross between a mango and a banana, in most grocery stores, even though they're native to North America. But the locavore food movement has embraced it.

There's going to be an extra glow in the sky in Minneapolis in coming weekends as two artists "Illuminate the Lock" using the massive wall of the Upper St. Anthony Lock as a giant projection screen.

Lou Bellamy, creator of St. Paul's Penumbra Theater, and his daughter Sarah recently sat down for a conversation about memories, both fond and difficult.

The Giving Voice Chorus is made up of Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers.

Alarmel Valli's performance of Bharatanatyam dance reunites her with her students, the founders of Ragamala Dance Company

Beck was well known for his landscape prints, inspired by the hills and farmland around his hometown, Fergus Falls. Local farmers liked his prints. City-dwelling art connoisseurs did, too.

Danez Smith's latest collection, "Don't Call Us Dead," just landed on the longlist for the National Book Award. The collection explores what it's like to be young, black and gay in America.

His former bandmate Bob Mould tweeted: "Grant Hart was a gifted visual artist, a wonderful story teller, and a frighteningly talented musician. Everyone touched by his spirit will always remember."

This week on Art Hounds: A major new mural at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, a Fergus Falls exhibit about mental health, and "Nadia."

X will be performing Wednesday night at First Avenue in Minneapolis. The show will feature the same four people who founded the band in Los Angeles 40 years ago.

In a Minneapolis gallery show, the artist urges viewers to reflect on their history.

Ananya Dance Theatre's "Shyamali" portrays women as perennial leaders of dissent -- featuring a signature mix of classical Indian dance, yoga and martial arts.