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Critical DMs: Exploring the many collections featured at the State Fair

Critical DMs: Exploring the many collections featured at the State Fair

Critical DMs finds arts editor Max Sparber and senior arts reporter and critic Alex V. Cipolle exploring the Minnesota State Fair’s Collections exhibit — an eclectic, chaotic counterpoint to the more codified tradition of crop art, featuring everything from stamps and postcards to scrapbooks, mail ephemera and license plates.
by Alex V. Cipolle and Max Sparber

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The 2025 Low-Stakes Debate from MPR News

The 2025 Low-Stakes Debate from MPR News

Join us for a lively, fun-filled debate at the Minnesota State Fair! 📅 Thursday, Aug. 28 🕥 10:30 a.m. 📍 MPR Booth, at the corner of Judson Ave and Nelson St on the fairgrounds.
by Heidi Raschke and Matthew Alvarez

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The 2025 Low-Stakes Debate from MPR News: Because even in a non-election year, everyone has an opinion about everything

The 2025 Low-Stakes Debate from MPR News: Because even in a non-election year, everyone has an opinion about everything

Join us for a lively, fun-filled debate at the Minnesota State Fair! 📅 Thursday, Aug. 28 🕥 10:30 a.m. 📍 MPR Booth, at the corner of Judson Ave and Nelson St on the fairgrounds.
by Heidi Raschke and Matthew Alvarez

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Talent booker juggles all sorts of acts for the Minnesota State Fair

Talent booker juggles all sorts of acts for the Minnesota State Fair

Entertainment companies all across the country compete to get contracts with the Minnesota State Fair. One Minnesota talent booker has been working with the Fair for over 42 years.
by Lukas Levin

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Ojibwe jingle dress brings education, healing to the State Fair

Ojibwe jingle dress brings education, healing to the State Fair

Regalia made in remembrance of Indigenous people impacted by violence is on display in the State Fair’s Fine Arts Center. The jingle dress features names of missing and murdered relatives inside red handprints.
by Melissa Olson

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Review: Soft-serve beer makes its debut and s'mores abound

Review: Soft-serve beer makes its debut and s'mores abound

This year’s roster of new Minnesota State Fair foods includes a wide variety of new foods and drinks to sample. And as she’s done every year, food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl was out there bright and early on the first day to try every single new offering.
by Emily Bright and Ngoc Bui

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