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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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The Thread Book Hour with Dani Shapiro and Jeff VanderMeer

The Thread Book Hour with Dani Shapiro and Jeff VanderMeer

Memoirist Dani Shapiro spoke to host Kerri Miller about her latest, "Hourglass," and the fragile strength of marriage. Jeff VanderMeer discussed his influences for his sci-fi hit, "Borne."
by MPR News Staff

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Rondo Days festival celebrates 34 years this weekend

The St. Paul event looks back at a community that was destroyed when federal and state officials decided to build Interstate 94 through their neighborhood in the 1950's.
by Tom Weber and Jo Erickson

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Louie Anderson's youth in St. Paul helped form an Emmy-winning character

Louie Anderson's youth in St. Paul helped form an Emmy-winning character

Anderson stars in FX's "Baskets," which was just green-lighted for a third season. He sat down for a wide-ranging, personal interview with MPR News host Tom Weber while back in Minnesota for stand-up shows.
by Tom Weber

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Kermit the Frog will have a new voice after actor steps down

Kermit the Frog will have a new voice after actor steps down

Joe Hennes, the co-owner, senior contributor and editor of ToughPigs.com, a website for Muppet fans, said the reaction among fans has been cautiously optimistic.
by The Associated Press

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Japanese blogger points out timeline flaw in supposed Earhart photo

Japanese blogger points out timeline flaw in supposed Earhart photo

An undated photo in the U.S. National Archives ignited speculation that Amelia Earhart survived a 1937 crash. But the same photo appears in a book published two years before Earhart disappeared.

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Diana Ross and a Motown musical both playing Tuesday night in Minneapolis

Diana Ross and a Motown musical both playing Tuesday night in Minneapolis

Ross is performing at Northrop; meanwhile, "Motown: The Musical" opens at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Minneapolis.

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Watch: Franken, Letterman take on climate change

Watch: Franken, Letterman take on climate change

For Sen. Franken, it's an effort to "fight back" against the creeping apathy and disregard toward science and climate change.
by The Associated Press

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Octavia Butler: Writing herself into the story

Octavia Butler: Writing herself into the story

An exhibit at the Huntington Library shows visitors how famed science fiction writer Octavia Butler created a career for herself in a genre that had few women and even fewer African-Americans.
by Karen Grigsby Bates

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Searching for a summer escape? These 6 books will carry you away

Searching for a summer escape? These 6 books will carry you away

Journeys -- near and far, into the past and even into near space -- are the subject of the novels, memoirs and narrative histories that make up this summer reading list.
by Maureen Corrigan

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