The bluegrass, jazz, and chamber music mixture of Barbaro comes to the Bands on the Boulevard series at the Minnesota History Center. Just back from an appearance at the Blue Ox Festival during a busy summer, the band will be a breath of fresh air overlooking beautiful downtown St. Paul.…

What we talk about when we talk about public art with curator Joe Ellis. WORDS BY CHLOE GALLAGHER “I won’t stop painting ’til l the world looks the way it should” —Typical Cats “It jumped off the walls,” Joe Ellis recalled over coffee at Wuolett Bakery, describing his first encounters…