Jessie Kim has reached a low point in her life. Laid off from a high-powered Wall Street bank, despite her skills and hard work, she returns home to...
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Independent Study With The Freelance Photographer
A freelance photographer creates a coaching platform for fellow creatives. A photography education and mentorship program with global reach has...
Avalanche Arts Finds a Place To Call Home
Avalanche Arts lays the foundation for a new performing arts center. In October 2025, Danielle and Shane Vinup signed a 99 year lease with the City...
Dan McAvey’s Brush With Nature
A landscape artist incorporates rest and healing into his paintings. Last summer, painter Dan McAvey spent a week deep in the Sax-Zim Bog, an...
The Green Show Returns to Maple Grove Arts Center
A springtime art show turns trash into treasure. After a hiatus, Maple Grove Arts Center’s (MGAC) The Green Show returns for its next installment...
Maple Grove Through the Ages
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then the thousands of pictures in the Jim Deane Photography Collection at the Maple Grove Historical...
Rebecca Aadland Discusses Her Upcoming Third Album
Singer-songwriter Rebecca Aadland returns to the recording booth. Rebecca Aadland doesn’t just sing the songs she writes; she shares the life she’s...
To Have and To Hold
A bridal couple gets their wedding wish. “It was a dark and stormy morning.” It isn’t a great start to a story, much less a wedding day, but it was...
Pilgrim Dry Cleaners Shares How To Preserve Memories
Discover how to care for your wedding dress before, during and after the big day. A wedding dress will see brides through one of the most...
A Memorable Love
As Vera Anna Katherine Koch prepared to marry her sweetheart, Harold E. Schaefer, on October 20, 1935, the day was clear and sunny. Her soft velvet...
A Love Story Starts Its Next Chapter Back Where It All Began
When Brooke (née Rogers) and Nick Vogt traveled across the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis on March 9, 2024, their path echoed that of their first...
Picture Perfect With Taylor Marie Beauty
The term “airbrushed makeup” can be daunting to brides and members of the wedding party, but Taylor McKinney of Maple Grove’s Taylor Marie Beauty is...
Gold Over the Greens
When stormy August skies gave way to a radiant sunset scene at their reception, Mariah and Tom Arko took to the rolling greens of Rush Creek Golf...
Aperitivo Designs Crowd-Pleasing Platters
Mobile charcuterie cart offers customized delectables. For Ashley Daniel, it’s been a long love affair with charcuterie. “My family lives in Europe,...
Discover Elevated Wedding Inspo
Jaw-dropping photography makes this a fun-to-flip-through lookbook, but the pages of Gorgeous Gatherings: Designing Unforgettable Weddings and...
How J’Aime Events Brings Meaning To Vow Renewals
A marriage is a lifelong commitment that deepens throughout the years, and a vow renewal is a meaningful way for couples to celebrate their journey...
“The Anti-Social Season”
This cute romance novel by Adele Buck is a fun read for the holiday season and provides a good look into our social media world. Additionally, one...
A Spiritual Connection
“Painted entirely by emotion, mostly frustration, I smeared acrylic paint, and I wet down my canvas in an angry fashion. I worked quickly,” says...
Get Into the Holiday Spirit
When it comes to cocktails for hosting a party, Grant Lavrenz recommends shopping your home bar first. “Use stuff you have at home,” he says. “Just...
Passion and Purpose With Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs
For Olivia Rocha, an 11th grader at Maple Grove Senior High School, stepping on to the stage with youth choir Angelica Cantant...
