The nostalgia-packed Book Fair for Grown Ups is bigger than the one from elementary school, but this time, you can sip on a beer as you browse paperbacks.

For owners of an Excelsior fashion boutique, six is a magic number.

We rounded up our favorite local restaurant patios for eating al fresco.

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As the science of vaccines continues to unlock more avenues for preventing communicable diseases and even treating some forms of cancer, local Top Doctors are exploring new ways to preserve the health of our community and treat some of the most complex medical conditions.

Start checking books off your summer reading list with these new local titles.

Make a game plan for hitting all of the Grandstand performances you want to see at the Great Minnesota Get-Together this year.

This Mound cottage enchants with a picket fence and brick walkway on the outside, shiplap and peppy color inside, and a fun-in-the-sun lake out back.

RT @mspmag: We've got your summer agenda set beyond the State Fair.

Have you noticed the subtle infusion of pandan into the lattes, cakes, croissants, and even cocktails of the Twin Cities?

The former Jiffy Lube near Bde Maka Ska is now home to three saunas, a cold-plunge pool, and a solid community of thermaculture enthusiasts.

Here's where to catch live music outside this summer.

Owner Steven Orfield agrees that we've never been more consumed by noise. “We’re addicted to it,” he says, “whether it’s our politics, our entertainment, or the screens on our phones.” Have we ever been more in need of quiet?

“Dude, I went in there expecting nothing, and it literally paradigm-shifted my entire life,” he says. Five weeks after his first experience, he came back for round two.

Could Orfield Laboratories, with its anechoic chamber the certified quietest place on earth, actually be a conduit to psychic healing? Last October, Questlove, the polymath drummer for The Roots, paid it a visit.

In Candide, the French polemicist Voltaire wrote, “We must cultivate our gardens,” and for more than 150 years Minnesotans have dutifully taken heed.

After working as a marketing exec at Target for 25 years, Sally Mueller founded Womaness, a women’s wellness company, in 2021. This spring, it launched in 1,000 Walmart stores.

The new weekly market, run by the organizers of Juniper Lou Markets, sprung up at St. Anthony Main.

As the science of vaccines continues to unlock more avenues for preventing communicable diseases and even treating some forms of cancer, local Top Doctors are exploring new ways to preserve the health of our community.

The new food event will set “America’s longest dinner table” to cover seven blocks of Nicollet Mall and serve 2,000 people in downtown Minneapolis.