Out + About Features

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.

Playwright Kira Obolensky adapts a scary story from her childhood.

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

May's top events indexed according to taste.

The Northrup King Building is great, but there are plenty of other notable buildings on the Art-A-Whirl circuit.

In Carlyle Brown’s Are You Now or Have You Ever Been . . ., it’s 1953, the eve of writer Langston Hughes having to answer Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s accusations of being a communist.

Dylan Hick's new book and CD complement each other in several ways.

Everyone agrees that Rudy Martinez should be set free. So why is he still in prison? 

Listen to the tune “Life’s a Drag” from Jack Klatt and the Cat Swingers' new CD Mississippi Roll.

We're 40 and loving it! Help us celebrate our anniversary with prizes, deals, and more.

We combed through our archives and plucked out 40 notable Mpls.St.Paul Magazine covers—the hits, the misses, the memories.

Style editor Allison Kaplan chats with artist Julie Sirek about her paper dress featured on the cover of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine’s May 2012 issue, which celebrates the magazine’s 40th birthday.

Toast these relaxing getaways with a bottle of wine—no knapsacks, kid packs, or achy backs in sight.

No need to break the bank to plan an outing that is fun, fresh, and fabulous.

Load up on bug spray, bait, and bungee cords, lash the canoe to the car roof, and head into the wild.

Check out our list of ultimate Minnesota must-sees, and then create your own bucket of fun.

A popular musical dramatizing St. Paul’s gangster days returns to the History Theatre.

Leave the household chores for another weekend, and amuse yourself with road trips.

Load up the car with kids, sunblock, a camera, and binoculars, and go play.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is arguably one of the most powerful women in the Senate. How does she keep it real?

Think you know a thing or two about Minnesota? Test your knowledge by taking our trivia quiz.

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine's Kara Eliason chats with the cast of The Hunger Games opening in theaters March 23rd.

April's top events indexed according to taste.

A copy of the U.S. Constitution from its first official printing will be displayed—and discussed—at the Minnesota History Center.

Children's Theatre Company premieres a play based on a regrettable moment in American History.