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Vacant no more: Artists, creatives move into empty storefronts for new Minneapolis initiative
The city of Minneapolis awarded five arts organizations subsidized leases through its Vibrant Storefronts Initiative, aiming to transform vacant downtown spaces near Loring Park into a creative cultural hub and address the affordable space crisis for artists.
Equestrian center fire kills two horses, destroys part of facility
Nearly a hundred people worked to put out a large fire at the Minnesota Equestrian Center near Winona. There were no reported injuries to people, but two horses and a cat were killed.
Defendants in human smuggling case convicted on all counts
A jury in Fergus Falls took only about an hour to return verdicts of guilty on all charges to two men accused of human smuggling. The trial arose from the hypothermia deaths of a family from India who in January 2022 were directed to walk across the border from Canada into Minnesota during a bitterly cold snowstorm.
Woman to Woman: Artist Hend Al-Mansour celebrates women and Islamic art
Hend Al-Mansour’s new exhibition, “Contain Me,” opening Nov. 23 at SOO Visual Art Center in Minneapolis, celebrates Khadijah and Hafsah, wives of the Prophet Muhammad, through kaleidoscopic video animations and painted illustrations that honor their influence on early Islam while reclaiming Al-Mansour’s place as a woman in Islamic art.