Minneapolis Star Tribune

What's cute, curvy and cool couture? Polka dots. And consumers are gobbling up the versatile spots on everything from toilet brushes to high-end frocks. Dots are finding favor with designers...

No popping sounds yet. Six months into Minneapolis' 2005 real estate market, sales are running neck-and-neck with last year's records, and prices are rising at a moderate pace that will...

No one keeps secrets like Frank Warren does. The 41-year-old artist has more than 2,000 of the world's darkest, funniest and most surprising secrets locked safely in four metal crates...

It was high noon on a hot, sticky Thursday. Outside St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater, Exchange Street was quiet and deserted. Inside, it was a different story. The Fitz, normally deserted...

There are hundreds of emoticons based on the familiar yellow smiley face--that's right, the one that is older than your parents. Here's a look at the history of the silly...

Just 15 months old and wearing an Amish bonnet and light-brown dress made by her mother, barefoot Rachel Schrock sat on a bare wooden floor and cooed, a picture of...

Let me know if you can get your hands on a Time-Turner. Otherwise, we have some time to kill between now and midnight July 16, when "Harry Potter and the...

Who's in it: Voices of Christian Bale, Emily Mortimer, Lauren Bacall, Jean Simmons What it's about: A new animated film from the director of "Spirited Away" about a teenage girl...

If you had to pick the worst hour of your week, week in and week out, could you do it? Doug Fick can. It's 8 p.m. every Saturday. That's when...

Lately, every time Cubs manager Dusty Baker calls for LaTroy Hawkins, the boos grow louder at Wrigley Field. The reaction to catcher A.J. Pierzynski has been precisely the opposite with...