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Coming to terms with loss and grief in the gorgeous 'Everything Inside'

Coming to terms with loss and grief in the gorgeous 'Everything Inside'

Edwidge Danticat's new story collection explores the ways people deal with death, from a woman whose barely known father is dying to a man facing his last seconds as he falls from a construction site.
by Michael Schaub

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Telepathy and surveillance converge in 'Overthrow'

Telepathy and surveillance converge in 'Overthrow'

Caleb Crain's perceptive novel examines the ways we're all under surveillance by corporations and computers, every move and click tracked, and the ways that intersects with how we watch each other.
by Annalisa Quinn

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Filmmakers reach out directly to audiences at the State Fair

Filmmakers reach out directly to audiences at the State Fair

The toughest part about moviemaking today is, arguably, not the production, but finding an audience. The star and the director of a new comedy drama spent the day at the fair pitching their movie to live audiences.
by Euan Kerr

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Oh brother, where art my Andy Warhol print?

Oh brother, where art my Andy Warhol print?

Artist Andy Warhol is credited with saying that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Two Twin Cities brothers now in a battle over the fate of a pair of famous Warhol prints may prove him right.
by Brian Bakst

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The Lizzo booty backstory begins in Burnsville

The Lizzo booty backstory begins in Burnsville

Lizzo's Minnesota ties went next level, when the biggest thing on her stage at Monday’s VMAs was an inflatable booty that was made in Minnesota.
by Jana Shortal

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10 things you might as well know about the 2019 VMAs

10 things you might as well know about the 2019 VMAs

Monday night's MTV Video Music Awards telecast brought viewers lots of Taylor Swift and Missy Elliott, not to mention Lizzo, Normani, Lil Nas X, Rosalía and more.
by Stephen Thompson

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'Hair Love' uses animation to bring a story of natural hair in black families to life

'Hair Love' uses animation to bring a story of natural hair in black families to life

Conceived and directed by Matthew Cherry, it follows the story of an African American father — Stephen — and his daughter, Zuri. Stephen is trying to learn how to do Zuri's glorious natural hair and, well, it's not so easy.
by Michel Martin

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'The Warehouse' is scary because it's plausible

'The Warehouse' is scary because it's plausible

Rob Hart's new dystopian cyberthriller imagines a near-future America in a state of semi-collapse, where the only jobs available are in company towns built by an enormous conglomerate called Cloud.
by Gabino Iglesias

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'My Papi has a Motorcycle' pays loving tribute to a California childhood

'My Papi has a Motorcycle' pays loving tribute to a California childhood

Author Isabel Quintero and illustrator Zeke Peña worked together on My Papi Has a Motorcycle, a homage to Quintero's childhood in California's Inland Empire, and to her hard-working father.
by Leila Fadel and Samantha Balaban

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