State Fair
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Inside the World of Traveling Carnival Workers Who Make the State Fair Happen
And don’t call them carnies!
