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El amor en una mazorca: El ritual de los tamales convierte a los amigos en familia

El amor en una mazorca: El ritual de los tamales convierte a los amigos en familia

Durante siglos, la comida y la alimentación han ayudado a conectar vidas y culturas. Como parte del proyecto North Star Journey, MPR News se puso en contacto con la escritora gastronómica de las Ciudades Gemelas, Mecca Bos, para que compartiera algunas historias sobre platos culturales emblemáticos y sobre cómo los rituales de elaboración y consumo de alimentos pueden unir a las personas.
by Mecca Bos

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From the archives: Sunita Puri on living — and dying — well

From the archives: Sunita Puri on living — and dying — well

This Friday’s Big Books and Bold Ideas will feature a conversation between host Kerri Miller and author Caleb Wilde, a sixth-generation funeral director who’s written a new book, “All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak.” It hearkens back to a 2019 discussion Miller had with Dr. Sunita Puri, about her poetic and practical book, "That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour." Modern medicine can help us live longer. But can it help us die well?
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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In one rural Minnesota town, old buildings get new life as arts spaces

In one rural Minnesota town, old buildings get new life as arts spaces

There are only a few buildings left in the center of Farwell, Minn. — and as of this summer four of them have been renovated and rededicated to the arts. It's bringing new energy to that part of rural Minnesota. 
by Emily Bright

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Ridin’ and ropin’: Gay rodeo makes its triumphant return in Minnesota

Ridin’ and ropin’: Gay rodeo makes its triumphant return in Minnesota

Hundreds sat in the bleachers of Dead Broke Arena in Hugo, Minn., to watch cowboys and cowgirls compete across 13 events, drag shows and line dancing at this weekend’s rodeo. It was the North Star Gay Rodeo Association’s first event since 2018.
by Grace Birnstengel

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Book Lovers'

It's a plot that sounds like a Hallmark movie, but the narrator handles it with a knowing wink and a nod, both celebrating and challenges the tropes of romance.
by Emily Bright

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Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on 'Star Trek,' dies at 89

Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on 'Star Trek,' dies at 89

Nichols broke ground and paved the way for Black actors in Hollywood as Uhura. Her castmate George Takei wrote, "We lived long and prospered together."
by Mandalit del Barco

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Minneapolis-based Lakota storyteller uses humor to 'right size' Pope's visit

Minneapolis-based Lakota storyteller uses humor to 'right size' Pope's visit

Pope Francis wore an eagle feather headdress during his visit to apologize to Indigenous people in Canada for abuses suffered at residential schools. Alfred Walking Bull, a writer and storyteller deployed his sense of humor.
by Melissa Olson

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