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Our staff list of the must-reads from local publishers and authors that caught our attention over the past year.

MN Reads: How Minnesota Became a Hot Spot for Stand Up Comedy Patrick Strait is the author of " Louie Anderson, Jeff Gerbino started it all in the late 1970s in Minneapolis. At that point, there really wasn't a stand-up comedy scene.  People had maybe seen some stand-up on Johnny Carson or Bob Hope, but there really weren't comedy clubs or bars that were doing regular stand-up comedy shows, so seeing a stand-up comedy was really rare. They started telling their jokes at a Minneapolis dive bar called Mickey Finn's before people know what a comedy club was. It wasn't a comedy club, it was a b...

Patrick Strait, author of "Funny Thing About Minnesota: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Twin Cities Comedy Scene," explains (). WCCO Mid-Morning - February 23, 2021

MN Reads: How Minnesota Became a Hot Spot for Stand Up Comedy Patrick Strait is the author of " Louie Anderson, Jeff Gerbino started it all in the late 1970s in Minneapolis. At that point, there really wasn't a stand-up comedy scene.  People had maybe seen some stand-up on Johnny Carson or Bob Hope, but there really weren't comedy clubs or bars that were doing regular stand-up comedy shows, so seeing a stand-up comedy was really rare. They started telling their jokes at a Minneapolis dive bar called Mickey Finn's before people know what a comedy club was. It wasn't a comedy club, it was a b...

Listening to our Black elders: 7 things to watch this week Our weekly picks to lift your spirits and expand your pandemic playlist.  February 18, 2021 — 10:39am Text size Copy shortlink: 'Listen! Please!' Commissioned to make a short film about racism, Minneapolis singer/choir director/producer J.D. Steele interviewed four Twin Cities Black elders — Josie Johnson, the First Lady of Minnesota civil rights and the first Black regent at the University of Minnesota; Bill English, co-founder of Sabathani Community Center; Mahmoud El...