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Never know what you'll find in the walls of an Elbow Lake house: m.startribune.com/news/?id=20842… #eureka
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m.startribune.com — Article by: Curt Brown , Star Tribune Updated: May 21, 2013 - 10:18 PM In his decade of working construction and home remodeling, David Gonzalez always dreamed of finding some hidden treasure in the demolition work. He'd even put dollar bills in new walls for folks to unearth in the future.
Too many Mother's Day mimosas instagram.com/p/ZOGAmtEDXN/
Mother and son on the road to the lake for Mother's Day instagram.com/p/ZLM8Y5EDdR/
Made a doctor's appointment, found a story: startribune.com/local/stpaul/2…
My Minnesota: He takes the calls and gives some soul
startribune.com — He describes his voice as "raspy but smooth." During working hours, James Brown's voice can be heard taking call after call at a St. Paul health clinic. For the past dozen years, he's been a scheduler, phone operator, security man, billing claims agent and "jack of all trades" at the bustling doctors' office on West 7th Street.
Dispatch from the oil patch: startribune.com/local/20612511…
New rosy estimates fuel optimism at North Dakota oil boom
startribune.com — Two days after a rosy government report doubled the estimate of how much oil is tucked beneath North Dakota, four men hop out of their vehicles into the soft dusk light atop a rock-strewn hill north of town.
My pal Bill McAuliffe reminds us that a thumb and white shirt are all you need to get to the nation's other side: startribune.com/lifestyle/trav…
Hitchhiking in a new age
startribune.com — Sunday morning traffic screamed past on Interstate 94 in Albany, Minn. - families heading for the lake, truckers facing deadlines, couples heading down the road to breakfast. The sun crept higher, its glare intensifying, along with my sense of the drivers' indifference. An hour. Two hours.
Cool movie alert: Our pal Rich Krevolin from LA will be here to debut new film Sunday at 4 at the film fest.
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If you loved the Billie Newman character on the Lou Grant Show, check out Linda Kelsey at the MN Jewish Theatre: t.co/5zT3D5MXqn
More than a dozen theater shows open in the Twin Cities April 12-13
startribune.com — There is a spring blizzard of theater this weekend, with more than 10 productions opening Friday and Saturday - a smorgasbord of dramas, musicals and surreal plays that should whet most appetites. "Handle With Care" Playwright Jason Odell Williams' new romantic comedy involves high-decibel miscommunication in English and Hebrew and rancor around a shipped coffin that has been lost in transit.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Metro Minneapolis–St. Paul and more.
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