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The Guthrie Theater is a professional repertory theater in Minneapolis, founded in 1963 by British director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. Its original thrust stage, designed by Ralph Rapson, became a model for the American regional theater movement. In 2006 the company moved to a new three-venue facility on t...

Target Field is the home of the Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team located downtown Minneapolis. Constructed in 2010, it replaced the Metrodome and features a modern design integrated into the city’s landscape. The ballpark serves as a venue for professional baseball games and provides a rec...

U.S. Bank Stadium is an American football stadium located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It serves as the home field for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. The venue’s most notable feature is its expansive ETFE polymer roof, providing weather protection and creating a unique playing...

Husker Du was an American rock band formed in Minneapolis during the 1980s. The group’s notable contributions to punk-rock and hardcore music include a complex sound characterized by angular guitar arrangements and energetic performances. They are primarily for listeners interested in influential Am...

Lakewood Cemetery is a nonprofit garden cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 1871. Its landscaped grounds cover roughly 250 acres beside the city's Chain of Lakes and contain historic monuments, mature trees, and burial sites for many figures in Minnesota history. The cemetery's Memorial C...

The Pillsbury A Mill is a preserved watermill in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Built in 1885, it originally ground wheat into flour using the flow of the Mississippi River’s power. Today, the mill houses apartments and offers tours showcasing its historic milling operations. It's notable for representing...

Emma Bull's 1987 standalone novel set in Minneapolis is widely regarded as a foundational text of modern urban fantasy for its depiction of Faerie courts invading a contemporary American city. The story follows a female rock musician who becomes entangled in the supernatural conflict, combining musi...

*Spoonbridge and Cherry* is a large-scale public fountain and sculpture installed in 1988 within the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, managed by the Walker Art Center. Created by the collaborative duo Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, the artwork features a 52-foot-long stainless steel and alumin...

Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash is the 1981 debut studio album by the Replacements, released by the Minneapolis label Twin/Tone Records. Its 18 short tracks capture the band's early identity as a fast, unruly punk group, before the broader rock and pop songwriting heard on later records. Paul...

Stanisław Skrowaczewski was a Polish-born conductor and composer who lived from 1923 to 2017. He served as music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, renamed the Minnesota Orchestra during his tenure, from 1960 to 1979 and later remained closely associated with it as conductor laureate. K...

The Midtown Global Market offers a unique shopping and dining experience within a covered, public market hall in Minneapolis. Established in 2006, it features diverse vendors representing international cuisines and cultures. It’s notable for its historic building location and provides access to auth...

Hootenanny is the second studio album by the Replacements, released in 1983 by the Minneapolis label Twin/Tone Records. The album retains the speed and abrasion of the band's early punk material while introducing acoustic passages, rockabilly touches, melodic songwriting, and deliberately comic expe...

Founded in Minneapolis in 1990, Profane Existence operated as a collective, record label, and anarcho-punk fanzine. The organization focused on releasing and promoting DIY hardcore punk and crust punk music with radical left-wing political themes. In addition to publishing the fanzine, the label rel...

The Basilica of Saint Mary is a Roman Catholic church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, designed in the Beaux-Arts architectural style. The church was completed in 1914 and in 1926 became the first church in the United States to be designated a minor basilica by the Holy See. It is located near downtown Mi...

Your Flesh was a music fanzine based in Minneapolis, founded by Peter Davis in 1984, that covered punk, garage, alternative rock, and underground music scenes largely overlooked by mainstream publications. It ran for over two decades, making it one of the longest-running American fanzines of its era...

Opened in 1921 on Hennepin Avenue, the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis was designed by the architectural firm Rapp & Rapp. It originally served as a major vaudeville venue for the Orpheum Circuit, hosting national headliners for Upper Midwest audiences before transitioning to a movie palace. Purchase...

Mouth to Mouth is the 1979 debut album by Minneapolis act Lipps Inc., produced by Steven Greenberg and featuring the global No. 1 hit Funkytown.

The Diana E. Murphy United States Courthouse is a federal judicial facility located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The building is named in honor of Diana E. Murphy, a prominent jurist who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. It houses operations for the United States Dis...

Le Cirque Rouge is a notable burlesque and variety troupe based in Atlanta, Georgia, recognized for staging elaborate, theatrical neo-burlesque performances in the American South.

Minnesota Opera is an American opera company founded in 1963 and based in Minneapolis. It presents productions in the Twin Cities and is particularly associated with commissioning, developing and premiering contemporary operas, while also staging works from the established repertory. Its programming...

Black Hearts Burlesque is a modern neo-burlesque production known for staging dark, theatrical, and horror-inspired striptease performances for alternative subculture audiences.

Hometown rapper Brother Ali rose to prominence in the late 2000s with intensely personal and socially conscious hip-hop albums exploring themes of faith, addiction, and community resilience within Minneapolis’s Somali immigrant community.

Atmosphere is a critically acclaimed hip-hop group originating from Richmond, Virginia, known for its dense, layered production and introspective lyricism exploring themes of urban life, paranoia, and philosophical reflection within a dark, atmospheric soundscape.

Created by producer Foxy Tann, this Minneapolis-based burlesque production is notable for its high-energy rock-and-roll aesthetic and celebration of diverse body types.

Target Center is a Minneapolis arena opened in 1990 and home to the NBA's Timberwolves and WNBA's Lynx, with Target holding naming rights since opening.

$100 Fine is the 1968 second album by the Minneapolis-based psychedelic garage rock band The Litter, praised for its heavy distortion and intense fuzz guitar.

Holy Titclamps was a notable queercore zine created by Larry Bob in San Francisco in 1989, serving as a key networking tool for the radical queer community.

Pucker Up is the 1980 second album by Lipps Inc. on Casablanca, featuring How Long, a cover that reached No. 4 on the US dance chart.

Designer Music is a 1981 Casablanca album by Lipps Inc., the Minneapolis disco-funk act created by producer and songwriter Steven Greenberg.