The Cities (including St Paul) were a great place to live - downtowns just minutes away from a rural environment along the Mississippi and a cluster of 5 large lakes within Mpls - really nice from an Angeleno's perspective.
Because of an arts-based corporate culture, along with unusually high education emphasis owing to the Lutheran college system, the Cities were remarkable for culture-vultures. More live theater per capita than NYC, we took in some great Shakespeare at the Guthrie.
And the innovative, excellent art gallery, The Walker Art Center,
connected to next door's theater complex.
+++++
A fair amount of time spent at the Electric Fetus record store/headshop, where Prince visited last Saturday, apparently. The Cities in the '80s were a pop music mecca, later passing to Seattle.
But all the sentiment over fallen pop icons makes me consider how much media has replaced the church as a platform for meaning.