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Karen Vento, a lifelong Saint Paul resident, unpacks Saint Paul Winter Carnival collectables as she reminisces about the elaborate history of the cold-weather festival in her favorite city.

The South Korean band made their highly anticipated return at the American Music Awards winning all their nominations, including Artist of the Year. BTS went up against big artists like Ariana Grande, Drake, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and The Weeknd.   Both BTS and Coldplay opened the show with “My Universe” which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100. Later that night, BTS closed the show with Butter, their […]

Restaurant name: Vino Cappuccino Hours: 11am-9pm, Monday-Friday Address: 2848 N Brookfield Rd, Brookfield, WI Pricing: Entrée’s ranging from $12-$27 Rating: **** 4 out of 5 stars For the past two years, I have been regularly driving out to Brookfield for work. More specifically, I have driven down North Brookfield Road past the railroad tracks and […]

Spider-Man: No Way Home is breaking records for advance ticket sales, even when the first official trailer released only one month before its release.

By Danica Basta In his USA Today article, Mike Snider says “For players during the pandemic, video games were a source of stress relief (55%) and distraction (48%), the survey found.” For the past year and a half, people all around the US have had to find ways to keep themselves entertained at home. For […]

For the first time in thirteen months, audience members took the elevator – two at a time – to the second level of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater that houses the Quadracci Powerhouse stage. There to see First Lady of Song: Alexis J. Roston Sings Ella Fitzgerald, they were greeted with Plexi glass aisles, scurrying one-by-one […]

Have you ever tried to find a videogame that never gets old, even after playing it hundreds of hours? As a gamer that has experienced more Overwatch than I care to admit, I’d say Overwatch is a great place to start looking. Overwatch was released in 2016 and is a first-person shooter game that was […]

Has it seemed like your newsfeeds on social media have been overgrown with plant pics lately? People buying plants, taking care of plants, showing off their plants?? They’re everywhere. It’s not just in your head. Everybody knows the number of pet adoptions have soared throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Plant sales have too. People are filling […]

Two Distant Strangers,   Travon Free & Martin Desmond Roe,   Joey Bada$$, Zaria Simon, and Andrew Howard  Short Film – 32 minutes  6.9/10 IMDb / 93% Rotten Tomatoes  Netflix Apr 1, 2021  Something we see and witness in our world every day. Finally, we have a great example in perspective of an African American man living […]

Bustle.com With summer just around the corner, do you know what this season’s hottest trend is? Besides the huge heat wave coming and everybody getting vaccinated, skincare is more important than ever. Due to COVID-19 people are spending more time outdoors. It is estimated that we spend an average of 14 hours outside each week, […]

The movie Soul was produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures and is about a jazz musician/teacher Joe Gardner who seeks to reconnect with his body after his soul is separated from it. Along the way he meets 22 and together they find out what it means to live. The movie overall inspires […]

If the continually unfolding drama surrounding the Chrissy Teigen bullying controversy is starting to give you major Mean Girls vibes, you’re not alone. Farrah Abraham, the Teen Mom star who was a target of Teigen’s online vitriol, compared Teigen’s most recent apology to a “Mean Girls movie spinoff,” and she may be on to something. The past few months, Teigen […]