Nina Utne went to nursery school on a farm, so she “made the connection real early between the animals you see and the meat you eat,” as she likes to put it. Result: Utne became a vegetarian before ...

Imagine Garrison Keillor moving "A Prairie Home Companion" to Des Moines or the Guthrie shuffling off to Omaha. The equivalent of those improbable scenarios is happening in the publishing world: The ...

Eric Utne, Minnesota native and visionary founder of the Utne Reader, didn’t intend to write a memoir but that’s what happened. “Far Out Man: Tales of Life in the Counterculture” (Random House, $28), ...

Utne Reader, a bimonthly magazine of stories from the alternative press, makes food the theme of its May-June issue with thought-provoking articles on this most universal of topics. Entries include ...

In a recent New Yorker cartoon, two parents regard their toddler, who stands by a window, trailing her wee fingers across the glass. "She thinks it's a touchscreen," the mother remarks. Funny as it ...

The Twin Cities-based Utne Reader will be moving to Kansas, though none of its current staff will be going with it. The alternative magazine’s seven editorial staff members heard in mid-November that ...

Hey all! The Next American City was just nominated for Best Social/Cultural Coverage by Utne Reader as part of its 2007 Independent Press Awards. We’re so stoked we’re practically jumping up and down ...