SouthernMinn Scene

29/11/2025

Our Scene Rants & Raves columnist has big opinions on holiday cookies: "It should be an accepted international fact that iced sugar cookies are the best part of the holidays! Why do people still question this?"

Here we go again …

28/11/2025

Got a bookworm in your life? Check out this all inclusive gift guide for everything reading.

Santa will be very relieved.

15/11/2025

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13/11/2025

This month's Scene Bookworm reviews:
"One of Us" by Dan Chaon
"Mexico's Day of the Dead" by Luisa Navvaro
"Somebody is Walking on Your Grave" by Mariana Enriquez
"King Sorrow" by Joe Hill

“One of Us” by Dan Chaon

11/11/2025

Our SoMinn Style columnist has advice on how to get back to dressing your best, not for the events, but for yourself.

What happened to the world as we knew it?

07/11/2025

Check out these photos, highlighting food from across the Southern Minn Scene region.

Whenever I dine out, which isn’t all that often, I’ll always choose a home-grown eatery over a chain. I prefer the often made-from-scratch foods, the homey setting and the comfortable

05/11/2025

For the Scene November FOOD edition, a look at a no fuss, no frills, down-home comfort food establishment.

Grab a stein and prepare to toast a perennial autumnal Bavarian tradition right here in Southern Minnesota. Because you don’t have to fly to Munich if you’re hankering to dress up in a dirndl or lederhosen, compete in a stein-holding contest and savor an oversized soft “Brezeln” dipped in co...

03/11/2025

For the Scene November FOOD edition, a nostalgic (or, for some, perhaps painful) look at some 1970s classic dishes. Do you have any favorite or least favorite popular foods from the time?

I’m an 80s baby, so I came at the tail end of some of the food trends of the 1970s, but I am not so far removed that I don’t

03/11/2025

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02/11/2025

Want to try something new? Check out the newest food establishments across the Southern Minn Scene region, profiled in the Scene November FOOD edition.

Grab a stein and prepare to toast a perennial autumnal Bavarian tradition right here in Southern Minnesota. Because you don’t have to fly to Munich if you’re hankering to dress up in a dirndl or lederhosen, compete in a stein-holding contest and savor an oversized soft “Brezeln” dipped in co...

31/10/2025

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29/10/2025

Bringing back tar and feathering, repercussions for parents who yell at coaches, free rent for small businesses with shop dogs, and so much more. Our Rants & Raves columnist has the platform to be president.

In this time of such political turmoil, I have come up with some ideas I think could really benefit our political system. Matter of fact, I’m pretty sure I could