Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

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A true craftsman reveals the soul of wood through the alchemy of lathe work, pyrography, and oil finishing. As the spinning blank meets sharp gouges, ribbons of aromatic shavings fall away to uncover ...

Joseph Rueter was a tech entrepreneur before he opened a knife shop, so it’s no surprise that he’s thinking about business extensions beyond his 50th & France storefront, Vivront. The shop sells ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — The annual “Sharpening” celebration drew crowds Saturday afternoon to the Lake of the Isles home of John and Amy Higgins, where a 20-foot pencil sculpture stands as a neighborhood ...

People from as far as California, Georgia and Maryland packed a Minneapolis lawn Saturday to watch two men sharpen a giant pencil. It was the fourth annual sharpening, a free event in the yard of a ...

Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall) pencil was sculpted out of a ...

MINNEAPOLIS ― When is a pencil not just a pencil? When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening that draws crowds of more ...