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• Local band makes music with Game Boys
  The music of Unicorn Dream Attack sounds like a Game Boy orchestra, but is deceptively human.October 14, 2008
• Duluth takes for sale sign off 'Minnehaha' window
  The Duluth City Council has voted 8-1 to take a "Minnehaha" stained-glass window off the market. Selling the artwork was one proposal brought forward for the city to cover its budget deficit.October 14, 2008
• Jim and Darlyne Lyons: grandparents, bail bond agents
  Jim and Darlyne Lyons' job, in a nutshell, is to lend thousands of dollars to alleged criminals and then hope to come out on top.October 13, 2008
• Mystery donor gives $475,000 for Fairmont students
  Fairmont school officials don't know much about Marjorie McClain, but she must not have forgotten her time growing up in the Fairmont area.October 13, 2008
• Civil War revisited
  Historian and author James McPherson is perhaps one of the most prolific authors on the Civil War. His latest book explains how Lincoln became a war time president, a role for which he had little experience but turned him into an essential leader for his times.Midmorning, October 13, 2008
• Longtime state Sen. Allan Spear dies
  Allan H. Spear, a former state Senate president who served in the Minnesota Legislature for nearly 30 years, has died at the age of 71.October 12, 2008
• Twin Cities surrounded by composer Portman's music
  Academy Award winning composer Rachel Portman may live in London, but her work is all over the Twin Cities right now. She wrote music for "The Duchess", the Kiera Knightley period drama showing at area movie theaters.October 9, 2008
• 2 missing hikers found safe in NE Minn.
  Two missing hikers were found safe Thursday in a rugged section of northeastern Minnesota, authorities said.October 9, 2008
• Economic pain stresses people and services
  The number of people seeking food, shelter, medical care and other necessities is up and social service agencies are feeling the demand.October 9, 2008
• From the South Side to St. Paul
  In the 1990s, thousands of low-income families moved to the Twin Cities from places like Chicago to build new lives. The state agonized over whether it was becoming a "welfare magnet." Paris Porter came to St. Paul from the south side of Chicago when he was 6 years old and was part of this migration.October 8, 2008
• The Rosenbergs, revisited
  The younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg came face to face with an uncomfortable revelation recently: that his father was guilty of spying for the Soviet Union. Both Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy to pass atomic secrets to the Soviets in 1953. And for most of his life Robert Meeropol believed his parents were not spies.Midmorning, October 6, 2008
• Neil Gaiman tries a new strategy
  Later this week fans will likely pack a St Paul church to hear author Neil Gaiman, a writing rock star, read from his latest novel, "The Graveyard Book." He's often swamped at readings and now has devised a new way to keep himself physically accessible to his readers.October 5, 2008
• The diva and the ghost writer
  Minneapolis author George Rabasa's new novel, "The Wonder Singer," explores love, opera and the agony of writing.October 3, 2008
• Guthrie and Rapson battle again
  This weekend the History Theatre in St. Paul will delve into one of the great tempestuous relationships of Minnesota theater history. "Tyrone and Ralph" is about the struggle in the early 1960s between architect Ralph Rapson and Sir Tyrone Guthrie, as they built the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.October 3, 2008
• News Cut: Ike-displaced dogs arrive in Minn.
  More than 100 dogs displaced by Hurricane Ike will soon be awaiting new families in Minnesota.October 1, 2008

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