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Photos: Beat the cold-weather blues at the Como Zoo Conservatory

Photos: Beat the cold-weather blues at the Como Zoo Conservatory

On the first day of spring, few signs of the season can be found in our snow-covered landscape. But inside the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul, the temperature is tropical and vibrant colors speckle the glass rooms. A variety of plants and blooming flowers are displayed at the 98-year-old site, and they can be the perfect antidote for our winter-weary eyes.
by Jeffrey Thompson

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Photos: Parka restaurant in Minneapolis

Photos: Parka restaurant in Minneapolis

Parka is a restaurant on East Lake Street in Minneapolis. When the owners renovated the building, they reached out to the culinary team behind Parka and invited them to share space.

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MPR News photos of the week: Beargrease, marriage bill drama, and celebrating a new pope

MPR News photos of the week: Beargrease, marriage bill drama, and celebrating a new pope

This week, we were there as mushers and their teams started on the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon in northern Minnesota, heard passionate testimony at the Capitol during a hearing on same-sex marriage, and checked in with Catholics celebrating their new leader.

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Photos: The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon gets under way

Photos: The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon gets under way

What do a former runway model, a young man with cerebral palsy and a musher from Tennessee have in common? They're all part of the field this year competing in the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. Ten teams registered for the 373-mile marathon race, which runs from Duluth up the North Shore to the Gunflint Trail near the Canadian border and back. Thirty teams have registered for the mid-distance race.

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Photos: Scenes from the Minnesota high school hockey tournaments

Photos: Scenes from the Minnesota high school hockey tournaments

The Minnesota high school hockey state tournaments, both girls and boys, are big events at the end of every winter. The girls tournament wrapped up at the end of February and the boys finished their play over the weekend.

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Photos: Snowstorm ushers in March in Minn.

Photos: Snowstorm ushers in March in Minn.

Tens of thousands of Minnesota students got a day off Tuesday as the second day of a slow-moving snowstorm made travel difficult across much of the region.

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Minnesota Scenes: Your February

Minnesota Scenes: Your February

Minnesota Public Radio News invites you to share your images of Minnesota on Flickr. If you do, we may pick your work to appear on MPR's Minnesota Today, and in a monthly gallery right here. We're looking for general interest photos of all kinds: wildlife, landscapes, festivals, events, rural scenes, urban life, outdoor recreation, sports, lutefisk -- pretty much anything that you think reflects life in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Below you'll find our picks from February (and one or two from earlier that were too good to pass up).

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Photos: For Norway's Terje Isungset, music is carved from ice

Photos: For Norway's Terje Isungset, music is carved from ice

Ice drums. Ice horns. An iceophone. These are just some of the instruments Norwegian musician Terje Isungset will bring to the Cedar Cultural Center stage in Minneapolis, Minn., on February 25, 2103. Reporter Nikki Tundel captured the makings of an ice concert.

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