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Art Friend: Everyone needs an art friend. Art Friend is a new segment with our arts team. Art spaces can feel exclusive and art can be confusing, obtuse, and even boring. But, especially with the right context, everyone can be a critic. So let us be your guide- your Art Friend. Listen or read Art Friend stories here.

Our arts coverage is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

Kids' books to read again, and again, and again, and again...

Kids' books to read again, and again, and again, and again...

Kids almost never want to read a book just once. So we asked children's author (and dad) Matt de la Peña to share recommendations for books that stand up — even on their 10,000th reading.
by Audie Cornish

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The Thread: Books for dog lovers

The Thread: Books for dog lovers

On this week’s Thread, Kerri Miller recommends three books that would make great gifts for the dog lover in your life.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Scrunchies are cool again. Hair's how they staged a comeback

Scrunchies are cool again. Hair's how they staged a comeback

A 2003 “Sex And The City” episode ridiculed the bulky hair tie as profoundly unfashionable. But now scrunchies are back, baby! How does a trend go from being so passé — to stylish again?
by Alina Selyukh

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Kids these Days ... are reading Nietzsche in the 'Burbs'

Kids these Days ... are reading Nietzsche in the 'Burbs'

It's easy to make fun of disgruntled teenagers, but in his funny new “Nietzsche and the Burbs,” author Lars Iyer depicts them accurately and with real sensitivity, never mocking or condescending.
by Michael Schaub

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Blue-collar character actor Danny Aiello has died at age 86

Blue-collar character actor Danny Aiello has died at age 86

Danny Aiello, the blue-collar character actor whose long career playing tough guys included roles in “Fort Apache, the Bronx,” "Moonstruck" and “Once Upon a Time in America” and his Oscar-nominated performance as a pizza man in Spike Lee’s "Do the Right Thing," has died. He was 86.
by The Associated Press

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