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One Great Plate: Asparagus Soup

Here's where to catch this seasonal beauty or whip up some in your kitchen.

Dinner at Sun Street Breads

Beloved bakery-café by day turned winsome café at dusk, Sun Street lights up the night.

The Tribal Trend

Warm and earthy global influences are everywhere this season.

Celebrate With Us: We're 40 & Loving It!

May is Mpls.St.Paul Magazine's 40th anniversary! See all the ways to celebrate our big four-oh.

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Best Restaurants 2012: Readers Poll

We asked what you thought was the best in Twin Cities dining. Here's what you had to say.

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Get Gardening!

Got a green thumb? Check out these gardening and floral stores for your next project.

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PLAY TO SEE: Time Stands Still

This Don Margulies play about a pair of journalists who are forced home from covering the Iraq War after one is injured in an explosion is a humorous and heartfelt Runs through May 20.

Twin Cities Sports Bars

Score a seat at a sporty spot to watch your favorite team play on the big screen.

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Find a Top Doctor

Search our directory of Twin Cities doctors recommended by their peers.

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Diamond Award Winners

The Diamond Awards offer brides a simple, credible guide to the best of the best in the bridal industry.

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Where and What to Eat

One Great Plate: Asparagus Soup

Asparagus soup: It’s like a grassy, lilting bowl of springtime whether you eat it warm or chilled. Here's where to catch this seasonal beauty or whip up some in your kitchen.

Features

Gray Matters: The Minnesota Zoo's Dolphin Problem

The challenges the Minnesota Zoo faced with the dolphin exhibit in the weeks leading up to the announcement that it will no longer exhibit dolphins at Discovery Bay.

Where and What to Eat

Eat & Tell: Where to Get Salted Caramel Ice Cream?

This week's question: Can I get salted caramel ice cream at the grocery store or just at ice cream shops?

Where and What to Eat

One Great Plate: Po' Boy

Where to grab this sammie, a baguette stuffed with fried seafood, originally created in ‘Nawlins in the 1920’s.

Where and What to Eat

City Lunch: Oceanaire

Lawyers and bankers pack the place at the noon hour, and the lunch menu smartly trades on favorites from dinner.

Theater

Witchy Women

Playwright Kira Obolensky adapts a scary story from her childhood.

Where and What to Eat

Eat &Tell: Where to Grab Treats for a Co-worker's Birthday?

This week's question: Where can I grab special treats for a co-worker's birthday in downtown Minneapolis?

Slideshow

Land of Fire and Ice

Despite its name, Iceland is temperate, green, and a photographer's dream.

Features

The Culture Meter: May

May's top events indexed according to taste.

Where and What to Eat

One Great Plate: Bento Taro

The brainchild of St. Paul noodle shop Tanpopo, these little boxes can be delivered all across the metro, bringing spice to your life.

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Unique Custom Design

Museums + Galleries

A Different Whirl

The Norhrup King Building is great, but there are plenty of other notable buildings on the art-a-whirl circuit.

Home Tour

Culinary Nights

Get a designer led tour of the ASID Showcase Home and an evening of great food and wine!
40 and Loving It

Celebrate Our 40th Birthday With Us!

May 2012 is our 40th anniversary. See all the ways to celebrate with us—prizes, deals, and more!

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