The Minnesota State Fair, running now through September 4, is the greatest place on earth. Here's photographic evidence from this past Sunday.






















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The Modern Rep’s queer interpretation of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ has its finger on the pulse, and it’s pressing hard.
World Cup watch parties! Vintage shopping! Cemetery yoga! Movies in parks!
I want to get away.
Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.
Plus a new publisher, Russian refugees, and Wisco-sexism in today's Flyover news roundup.