The Minnesota State Fair gets a grand reopening
(Photo courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair) JOSEPH PALUMBO Arts and Entertainment Editor The Minnesota State Fair is officially set to return on Aug. 26, 2021. Over a year ago,…
Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli, a St. Paul-based group dedicated to sharing Mexica Nahua and Aztec culture, dances at Art in the Hollow on June 1. The group demonstrated a variety of traditional dances and drumming for the crowd. (Mandy Hathaway / The Metropolitan)
Art in the Hollow celebrates 10th anniversary
The only art festival on St. Paul’s East Side drew 80 artists and performers on June 1. Organizers of Art in the Hollow estimate that 2,000-plus people attended the event in Swede Hollow Park, near Metro State's St. Paul campus.
Regina Williams, left, Thomasina Petrus and Austene Van discuss the play “Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill” with students in Writing 300: Creative Writers, Identity and Race in the Twin Cities, on the Midway campus on June 4, 2018.
Photo by Kathryn Ganfield
‘On Stage’ program brings live theater to college classrooms
Three Twin Cities theater professionals brought Billie Holiday's jazz to life for a Metro State creative writing class.