If you love Betty White, the "Golden Girls" or Minnesota or all three, today's #CuriousMinnesota is for you. startribune.com/golden-girls-s…

Somewhere beneath southern Minnesota lie the remnants of about 40,000 board games once created and sold as an anti-establishment alternative to mega-selling Monopoly. startribune.com/anti-monopoly-…

The Curious Minnesota podcast heads north to the mighty Mesabi, which helped fuel America's success story. startribune.com/curious-minnes…

Was there a "riot" of teenagers in downtown Minneapolis after the Beatles' only Minnesota show? #CuriousMinnesota has the answer: startribune.com/the-beatles-be…

Is it true that a Minnesotan will "give you directions to anywhere but their home?" A reader who contacted Curious Minnesota says yes, and wants to know why. We want to hear from transplants and native Minnesotans alike. DM reporter zoë jackson or email [email protected]

I'm very excited about a new searchable database we are launching today for the fifth anniversary of Curious Minnesota. The Curious Minnesota Collection features more than 260 stories about Minnesota history and culture, all based on reader questions. startribune.com/curious-minnes…

Introducing the Curious Minnesota Collection. Every question we've answered — now in one place startribune.com/curious-minnes…

This is very cool

Get curiouser and curiouser about Minnesota with this searchable landing page of all the Curiouses.

Launched today: our new The Minnesota Star Tribune "Curious Minnesota" collection that tracks every question we've answered in 5 years in this nifty database: startribune.com/curious-minnes… Great work by Eric Roper & team.

Proof: Eric Roper and me on Almanac on the same night. There should be a term for couples pulling this off. 🤔

Curious Minnesota, a reader-driven reporting project, has received more than 3,000 reader questions since launching in 2019. Eric Roper shared a few favorites.

Check out Eric Roper talking about Curious Minnesota (and when you can actually call yourself a Minnesotan) on Minnesota Live with @ChrisEgertTV & Megan Newquist! kstp.com/special-covera…

I enjoyed digging through our archives to chronicle Dan Cohen's long and very interesting career in Minneapolis politics. Cohen famously took the Star Tribune to the U.S. Supreme Court -- and won. He died in early April. startribune.com/he-fought-this…

He fought this newspaper — and won. Dan Cohen, mainstay of Minneapolis politics for decades, dies at 87. startribune.com/he-fought-this…

The wedding arch-turned garden gate Eric Roper and I built for our big day is featured in this month’s Family Handyman! They dedicated a whole page to the story of our nuptial woodworking project. And how we’ve now turned it into a permanent part of our home. 🥰

For almost five years, my husband Eric Roper has been researching the Robinson’s, a Black couple who owned our home in SW Minneapolis a century ago. Starting Jan 13, their story will be a told as a national podcast from the The Minnesota Star Tribune called Ghost of a Chance.

I have been working for five years on a project that began as a mystery about my home, but ultimately revealed an important history of race in Minneapolis. Our podcast, "Ghost of a Chance," will begin publishing Monday. Here is my first-person essay: startribune.com/a-mystery-abou…

Did you know the The Minnesota Star Tribune recently launched its very first episodic, narratively driven podcast series, "Ghost of a Chance"? Racket's Jay Boller sat down with host Eric Roper to learn more about it: racketmn.com/racketcast-ep-…

When reporter Eric Roper looks into the previous owners of his Minneapolis house, he uncovers an incredible history tying his city to a major racial reckoning. Listen to the story of the Robinsons in The Minnesota Star Tribune‘s Ghost of a Chance: apple.co/GhostofaChance