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Janet Jackson's first big hit album produced in Minneapolis

Janet Jackson's first big hit album produced in Minneapolis

"When I Think of You" was part of the phenomenal success of her breakthrough album "Control."

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Dreams do come true: Ruby slippers project passes $300K goal

Dreams do come true: Ruby slippers project passes $300K goal

The Smithsonian launched a Kickstarter campaign last week to raise money to help preserve the slippers that whisked Dorothy back to Kansas at the end of "The Wizard of Oz."
by The Associated Press

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Little Free Libraries robbed throughout Twin Cities

Little Free Libraries robbed throughout Twin Cities

While nobody knows yet who is behind the thefts and why, there has been speculation that the books are being stolen so they can be sold at local bookstores.
by The Associated Press

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For John Sandford, Minnesota remains the perfect crime scene

For John Sandford, Minnesota remains the perfect crime scene

Thrill master John Sandford, who set his latest book, "Escape Clause," at the Minnesota Zoo, talks with MPR News about his characters' Minnesota roots -- and the hardest part about crime writing.
by Tracy Mumford

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Ask a bookseller: Left Bank Books in St. Louis

Ask a bookseller: Left Bank Books in St. Louis

Bookseller Shane Mullen has two eerie, unsettling reads for your October book list. The first deals with a horror film gone awry in the Amazon and the second revolves around the mysterious disappearance of young twin girls.
by Tracy Mumford

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One-woman show looks at war through child's eyes

One-woman show looks at war through child's eyes

Playwright and actor Ifrah Mansour offers a work based on her own experiences as a child in Somalia's civil war.
by Marianne Combs

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Endgame near for those claiming family ties to Prince

Endgame near for those claiming family ties to Prince

Prince's legal family portrait is coming into focus as the process to establish his estate's heirs moves toward a conclusion. Millions of dollars are at stake.
by Tim Nelson

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St. Paul's Bedlam venue to close its doors

St. Paul's Bedlam venue to close its doors

The multifaceted performance and event space had operated under a debt burden that grew too heavy.
by Euan Kerr

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Is Wonder Woman suited to be a U.N. ambassador?

Is Wonder Woman suited to be a U.N. ambassador?

This Friday the U.N. holds a star-studded ceremony to appoint Wonder Woman its honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls. Many women's rights advocates are in an uproar.
by Nurith Aizenman

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Justice Ginsburg will make her operatic debut - sort of

Justice Ginsburg will make her operatic debut - sort of

The Supreme Court justice is set to play a nonsinging role on opening night of the Donizetti opera "The Daughter of the Regiment" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
by Nina Totenberg

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