Minnesota State Fair schedule for Monday, Sept. 3
GRANDSTAND: Boy George & Culture Club: With the B-52s and Tom Bailey. 6:30 p.m. DAN PATCH PARK: Hmong Musical Headliner Acts: 4 p.m. DNR PARK: Joe Meyer Band: 10 a.m., noon, 2, 4 & 7 p.m.; Ecuador Man…
Giving Form to the Stories of Syrian Refugee Children
I was really worried about that, and actually some of my ideas for the piece I had scrapped in order to try to avoid that, because context is so important, and I know that Minnesota has a very large c…
NEWSBRIEF: Ramsey County Baby Café grand opening
The Ramsey County Baby Café grand opening will be held from 4 to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the Hmong American Partnership, 1075 Arcade St., St. Paul. The reception will include Baby Café lactatio…
Summer agriculture program connects college students with local farms
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, students listened to speakers such as Minnesota Rep. David Bly, as well as representatives from the Hmong American Farmers Association and a John Deere factory. Each week fo…
Wing Young Huie, chronicler of St. Paul’s University Avenue, is first photographer to win McKnight award
His work includes pictures of a Hmong shaman’s ritual and a Pentecostal church service; kids goofing off in an alley and elders in a beauty shop; a black family gathered close on the front stoop and a …
State Fair Preview: Entertainment and Live Music
Other days include Military Appreciation Day, Music by the Pearl Brothers, Hmong Minnesota Day and more. The stage’s location is at Dan Patch Park. Family Fair Stage Magicians, family-friendly comedia…
Mental health comes to the fair: Carlton County official’s brainchild gets its own day at the Great Minnesota Get-Together
It’s the place for everything from Minnesota Cooks Day to Military Appreciation Day to Hmong Minnesota Day. Mental Health Awareness Day features one of the most packed lineups of any of the special da…
Mental health awareness to be showcased at Minnesota State Fair
It’s the place for everything from Minnesota Cooks Day to Military Appreciation Day to Hmong Minnesota Day. Mental Health Awareness Day features one of the most packed lineups of any of the special da…
Taking a deep-dive into Somali culture at the Minnesota Historical Society
MNHS had done a few exhibits that were similar in nature in recent years—including “We Are Hmong Minnesota” (2015) and “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation” (2016)—and was interested i…
Disney Casts Jimmy Wong and Doua Moua in the Live-Action ‘Mulan’
Doua Moua, also 31, is a Hmong-American actor born in Thailand and raised in Minnesota. He is best known for his role as Fong in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film “Gran Torino.”
Renter-rights candidate Mitra Nelson wins St. Paul council seat as Ramsey County votes even bluer than usual
In a four-way primary race for the rare open judicial seat in Court 11, civil litigator Scott Michael Flaherty received 38 percent of the vote, and Hennepin County public defender Adam Yang, a past pr…
Judge now has case pending against St. Paul City Council member, Dai Thao
Authorities charged Thao with unlawfully marking a ballot, misconduct in or near polling places and unlawful assistance of a voter — misdemeanor-level offenses — after he drove a Hmong woman he encour…
Man accused of exposing himself and sexually assaulting 10-year-old in St. Paul parking lot
A 10-year-old and a 13-year-old girl had just walked out the north exit of Hmong Village at 1101 Johnson Parkway to get something out of their mother’s car when the younger of the two felt a man wrap …
Bethel Partner Hmong College Prep Academy Revitalizes St. Paul Community
“Did I say ‘dedicated and passionate’?” Of all the things that could be said of Hmong College Prep Academy (HCPA) in St. Paul, Minnesota, those two words repeatedly rise to the top of the list for Bet…
“100 Years and Counting”: The next chapter of the Minnesota Museum of American Art
In addition to her duties as registrar, Vang also works as the director of the Hmong Museum, which has led The M to have a close relationship with St. Paul’s large Hmong community. “This is a chance f…
Lively cross-cultural comedy ‘Korean Drama Addict’ gets its premiere in St. Paul
Director Randy Reyes, whose Theater Mu commissioned the piece, stages it expertly to maximize the humor even as the show confidently celebrates both Hmong and Korean culture. The acting company is led …
Showdown in St. Paul: Two sheriffs clash over dysfunction in the Ramsey County Jail
He wanted to assemble the first Hmong Boy Scouts troupe in their neighborhood and organize a girls’ softball team. She grew up attending the early reading and swim programs run by the sheriff’s office …
St. Paul’s Minnesota Museum of American Art to re-open on December 2
The reopening of the M also includes the much-anticipated new Sifo Center for Creativity, which will offer studio classes for adults including ceramic Mesoamerican flute-making, Hmong embroidery, oil …
