After a career of formulating time- and money-saving pharmaceuticals at his Minnesota business, Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Ken Evenstad started blending one of the most prestigious pinot noirs in the country.

Minnesota credit unions claim that they're withstanding the recession and the real estate bust nicely, thank you. Now they want to lend to capital-hungry small businesses. Banks beg to differ.

Despite some flat moments, First Avenue has been the epicenter of the Twin Cities music scene for nearly four decades.

The Eagan business that was once West Publishing now supplies its parent company with the intellectual firepower to outmaneuver Bloomberg and LexisNexis.

Effective leaders utilize crisis to force change.

"There are two ways to cope with wine snobbery. One is to compare wines with their labels hidden." —Leon D. Adams, The Wines of America, 1973

An invitation for 2012: What's red, all over, and in the black?

Find the gadget that best fits the way you work.

Vaddio manufactures a specialized high-end video camera—in Minnesota.

Johnny Michaels, the lyrical and heady bartender at La Belle Vie, treats the cocktail as an intellectual challenge—but one that requires equal parts creativity and good humor. (Beware: He cringes at highfalutin’ terms like “mixologist”).

It's "Wood from the 'Hood."

Crafting performance-based compensation that supports a company's long-term sustainability.

And its stores are open only four days a month. How does that work?

Café 128 tames "the stinking rose."

Dental People has tripled in revenues over the past three years.

Is the sum of the parts greater than the whole?

News bits from around Minnesota.

Johnny Michaels, the lyrical and heady bartender at La Belle Vie, treats the cocktail as an intellectual challenge—but one that requires equal parts creativity and good humor. (Beware: He cringes at highfalutin’ terms like “mixologist”).