“It’s just a very long distance from not having anything, to get to this point,” says Ne Dao, co-owner of Ha Tien Grocery Store (353 University Avenue West, St. Paul). While Dao means as business ...

Catzie Vilayphonh was key figure in bringing the groundbreaking National Lao American Writers Summit to Minneapolis in 2010, and has been a frequent visitor to college campuses across Minnesota over ...

The deep cultural meanings in the traditional Hmong wedding ceremony has lost their relevance to many Hmong as they transition to life in the United States resulting in conflict in the community ...

For northeast Minneapolis resident Ilhan Omar, making sure her children get a “first class education in a supportive environment” is an important goal. Her two school age children, ten-year old Isra, ...

Over at the City Pages, the ever-excellent Andy Mannix asks in a cover feature: When will gay marriage be legal in Minnesota? It’s a good question. Bluestem is among those who believe that answer is ...

A month before Halloween, ghosts are in court. A lawsuit by janitors for Diversified Maintenance Systems (DMS) charges that they were forced to use “ghost time cards,” so the company could avoid ...

The press corps were seated together at the Dakota Jazz Club on Wednesday night, where composer Philip Glass played a program of his works composed or arranged for solo piano. One of my colleagues, an ...

UCare’s March 16 announcement that it will give back $30 million to the State of Minnesota came amid mounting criticsm of state payments to HMOs. Why the payback? It’s “the right thing to do,” said ...

Below are designs by members of the junior class. Rosy Simas of Rosy Simas Danse is Haudenosaunee, Seneca, Heron Clan. She brings a Native feminist lens to the contemporary dance world with her body ...

Award winning photographer Wing Young Huie has been revealing untold stories lingering in plain sight for nearly two decades. He creates intimate portraits of individuals from diverse backgrounds, ...

It seemed like there was a time when everybody’s aunt had an old one in their closet. Balalaika, that is…a traditional Russian instrument that looks like a triangular guitar and has three strings.

Bernice Gilliard is the director of From Me to You (FMTY), an outreach effort that began in 1996 through Minneapolis’ El-Bethel Baptist Church. When Gilliard learned of a fire that destroyed a ...