Minnesota Stories

Photographer Christopher Polydoroff brings us this unlikely holiday sound in a video shot for TwinCities.com: Okay, it's not the most pleasant sounding instrument in the orchestra. And one could argue that getting more than 100 tuba players together for ...

Photographer Christopher Polydoroff brings us this unlikely holiday sound in a video shot for TwinCities.com: Okay, it's not the most pleasant sounding instrument in the orchestra. And one could argue that getting more than 100 tuba players together for ...

The Minnesota senate recount of 2008 or so - will it ever end? Not a day goes by without campaign workers, election officials, journalists and pre-rehab political junkies asking themselves this question. The Star Tribune experimented with live coverage, ...

There have been numerous attacks on bikers along the Midtown Greenway in November and December, as detailed in the The Bridge, Star Tribune and the Midtown Greenway Coalition. On Dec. 13, a group of cyclists decided to ride down the greenway after dark ...

Music-synchronized light show at the house of Troy Lykken at 32nd Street and 41st Avenue in Minneapolis. Troy's neighbor Aaron Landry has a good write-up with a bunch of links.

Quicktime MN Stories is on holiday break until January 2008. The site has been serving up fresh Minnesota-themed videos nearly every weekday since July, 2005. This is video #541. Check out the other 540 and comment if you have any favorites. Thanks to ...

Quicktime CHUCK SEZ: MN Stories is going off the air until further notice. Is it because of the writer's strike? Has the talent thrown a hissyfit, have the investors pulled out? Naww... I've just got too many projects going on. Rather than see the site ...

Quicktime "The entire city is a free speech zone." So says St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman in this Huffington Post article by MInnesota-based writer Peter Smith, with video from The UpTake.

Quicktime The "Food vs. Fuel" debate hits close to home for Corn Guy when he's forced into a confrontation with Taco Lady. But Corn Guy is willing to do just about anything to set the record straight, including - well, you'll see. Disclaimer: Corn ...

Quicktime Sex is more fun when you share! That's the motto of Midwest Teen Sex Show, produced right here in the Minnesota area (which includes Wisconsin, and is nowhere near the "swimsuit area.") Warning: This particular video about Syphilis, ...

Quicktime Go outside at night and listen closely. You'll notice it especially in the fall before the freeze... tiny sounds, crickly-cracks, secret life bristling in the ground. That be the sound of earthworms coming alive, otherwise known as ...

Quicktime A Mad Scientist makes makes a political monster with 1 part comedian, 1 part author and 1 part Minnesotan. The result is Al Frankenstein...Feared on the campaign trail. A new classic vid from Steve Barone of MinnieIndie.

Quicktime The revolution will not be televised, but it will be uploaded. One by one the barriers to creating your own mass media have been coming down. First blogs let anyone publish their own newspaper, then podcasts let anyone publish their own radio ...

Quicktime Citizens! Lay down your ePods and cyberPhones for a moment, and take up the cause of citizen journalism. The health of our democracy is on our hands, and we must pick up our cameras and find the truth(s) out there ourselves. That's what The ...

Windows Media From Michael Bischoff: Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point and Blink, comments on the future of crime and justice in Minnesota. These are excerpts from Gladwell's speech in Minneapolis on 10.9.07. The full speech is ...

Quicktime Gnome on the run! Aaron's lawn gnome, that is. Here he is stumbling upon a magical town full of gnomes in Minnesota: I continued walking West today and stumbled upon a town called Dawson. What happened after that isn't all that clear to me. I ...

Quicktime Paulino Brener was at the Oct. 12 pillow fight in Minneapolis, outside the Walker Art Center. Were you there? Looks like it was tons-o-fun! Except, not as heavy as that sounds.

Quicktime Believe it! Tay Zonday at First Avenue Mainroom, 10/5/2007, opening for Girl Talk. Courtesy of Twin Cities Live. Watch the original here if you're feeling nostalgic.

Quicktime What happens before the brains are eaten? Here's Courtney, zombifying before the Third Annual Zombie Pub Crawl last weekend. MNspeak link to more zombie photos.