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The heart of Sergio Choy’s job as a medical interpreter is to capture the spirit of the message between patient and medical provider. “You hear things like, ‘I’m feeling a little blue today,’ in ...
The faces stare up at you from the folded tabloid newspaper on sale at the your nearest convenience store: hundreds of photos of people at what might be the worst moment of their lives, available to ...
The elegant statue of a woman, holding a lily – symbol of rebirth – in one hand and gesturing with delicate flower petals in the other, stands in St. Paul’s Calvary Cemetery. The monument, just south ...
Friends and family of Joel Larson have started a campaign to remember the energetic and dynamic young gay man who lost his life to anti-LGBT hate in Minneapolis’ Loring Park in 1991. Larson’s loved ...
Clinicians and therapists of color lack adequate resources and support in the mental health field. The situation is even worse for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). Institutional barriers keep ...
Updated: Property owned by Living Word Christian Center has gone into foreclosure, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s office. On July 28, four parcels of land owned by the Brooklyn Park ...
Back in the days when corner grocery stores abounded, Beltrami Neighborhood residents had many choices, including Delmonico’s, Maple Leaf, Spano’s, Rusciano’s, and Schullo’s. Through the years, most ...
The heart of rock and roll is still beating in Prior Lake, Minnesota. I have that direct from no less authoritative a source than Huey Lewis, who inserted the name of the Twin Cities suburb into the ...
In February 1951, within a climate of local anti-Semitism, Mount Sinai Hospital opened its doors at the corner of Chicago Avenue and 22nd Street in Minneapolis. The hospital — described in the AJW as ...
Fadumo Isse sat with three other Somali refugee women in the hallway of a homeless shelter in north Minneapolis with her eyes welling up with tears as she told her story of the first six months of her ...
Public art is popping up all over the Standish and Ericsson neighborhoods—murals on buildings and utility boxes ,sculpture at Lake Hiawatha Park and Oaks Station Place, colorful windows at courageous ...
The Mel-O-Glaze Bakery on 28th Avenue has been selling out of donut holes for generations. But there's a lot more on the shelves, including semi-naughty posters, a history of dogs, and other stuffed ...