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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.

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Pavilion strengthens bonds between St. Paul, Chinese sister city

Pavilion strengthens bonds between St. Paul, Chinese sister city

A decade in the making, crowds gathered to dedicate and celebrate the new Xiang Jiang Pavilion at St. Paul's Phalen Regional Park on Saturday — and it's just the first phase of a larger garden project.
by John Nguyen

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The absurd, hilarious classic you shouldn't skip

The absurd, hilarious classic you shouldn't skip

Brandy O'Briant first reluctantly picked up "The Master and Margarita" in college, but it's one of the novels she continues to re-read.
by Tracy Mumford

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State Fair vendor won't use syringes in doughnut treat

State Fair vendor won't use syringes in doughnut treat

The plastic syringes were meant to hold fillings consumers could inject into doughnut holes at this year's fair. After getting pushback over the waste it would cause, the vendor has dropped the syringe plan.
by MPR News Staff

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Abby Jeanne performs at 7th St Entry on Friday night

Jeanne told the Wisconsin Gazette a few years ago that it took time for her to come to terms with making music her career.
by Cathy Wurzer

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'Late Migrations' essays create a jeweled patchwork of nature and culture

'Late Migrations' essays create a jeweled patchwork of nature and culture

New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl astonishes with her essays, a woven tapestry that makes one of all the world's beings that strive to live — and, in one way or another, face mortality.
by Barbara J. King

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'Delayed Rays of a Star' sheds light on 3 film legends

'Delayed Rays of a Star' sheds light on 3 film legends

Amanda Lee Koe's new novel was inspired by a famous photograph — Anna May Wong, Marlene Dietrich and the notorious actress and director Leni Riefenstahl, posing together at a Berlin party in 1928.
by Ilana Masad

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3 sisters come of age, dreamily, in 'Three Summers'

3 sisters come of age, dreamily, in 'Three Summers'

Margarita Liberaki's novel, first published in 1946, follows three young women growing up in the Athens countryside alongside a colorful cast of family members, secret-keeping servants and local boys.
by Martha Anne Toll

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R. Kelly arrested again in Chicago on federal sex charges

R. Kelly arrested again in Chicago on federal sex charges

Singer R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago Thursday on a federal grand jury indictment listing 13 counts including sex crimes and obstruction of justice.
by Associated Press

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Finding spiritual connections, a sense of place on the Mississippi River

Finding spiritual connections, a sense of place on the Mississippi River

Amoke Kubat, a retired schoolteacher who lives in north Minneapolis, feels a special connection to the Mississippi River. She's sharing it with others with the hope of reconnecting African-Americans to the water and land.
by Gabriel Kwan

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