Twin Cities

Here's the only good thing -- books! -- about the Lynx losing the WNBA championship
The mayors of Minneapolis and Los Angeles staged a friendly wager over the game: The loser has to send a shipment of books by local women authors to the winning city. Minneapolis is preparing to send the books next week.
Kittley, bitter balls and potato greens: African customers find taste of home in farmers markets
While African crops are typically hard to find across the country, they are increasingly abundant in the Twin Cities, thanks in large part to many Hmong-American growers, many of whom sell their produce only at farmers markets.