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New 2024 MN State Fair Food: Predicting the Winners and Losers

Let's get all Mel Kiper on the fair's 33 new food concoctions.

What It’s Like to Own a State Fair Ye Old Mill Boat

'It's just perfect to me,' says the new owner of this piece of MN history.

March 1, 2024

We Invited Sen. Klobuchar to Atone For Her State Fair Cowardice. Silence.

In 2019, Sen. Amy Klobuchar played politics instead of rightfully declaring our State Fair the best in the country. She's not yet willing to make it right.

September 6, 2022

The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2022 Minnesota State Fair

Our review crew returns to the fair for the first time since 2019.

August 26, 2022

New 2022 MN State Fair Food: Predicting the Winners and Losers

Let's get all Mel Kiper on the Fair's 38 new food concoctions.

Leslie Barlow Is the First Black Female Artist to Create MN State Fair’s Official Art

Plus a beloved coffeeshop is closing, more new unions, and 47 cats in a car in today's Flyover.

What It’s Like to Eat Your Own 90-lb. Butter Head

Princess Kay of the Milky Way winners and finalists are sent home with their entire sculpted head.

September 13, 2021

The All-Hockey Hair Guy Made a State Fair Hair Video

TGIF, enjoy some sick flows.

September 10, 2021

Putting MN’s Breakthrough COVID Cases in Context

Plus new language for the ballot question and the State Fair's lowest attendance in four decades.

September 8, 2021