Each election cycle, someone unexpected — or unknown — files to run for office on the last day of filing. MinnPost takes you inside the 11th-hour making of a political candiate with a look at how Greg Pariseau ended up running for state representative. Pariseau got an invitation to run the night before the deadline -- in an email from the DFL. He showed it to his wife. "Go for it," she said.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody sells a comedy series project to ABC. The former Minnesotan, who won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Juno," sold to the network her script for "Alex + Amy," which is described as a "romance between an ambitious 22-year-old Millennial guy and a 32-year-old Gen X woman."

Singer-actress Kristin Chenoweth's show set for Sunday night at the State Theatre in Minneapolis has been cancelled. The Hennepin Theatre Trust announced Saturday that the TV and Broadway stage star is ill and that the show will be rescheduled for a later date this month.

Bauer died in his sleep on Wednesday night at age 62. He began his career at a Minneapolis bar and is credited, along with Louie Anderson and Scott Hansen, with helping to establish the Twin Cities as a major comedy market.

Seinfeld announces he'll go on tour this year, including two shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis in November. Tickets go on sale this Friday.

The live variety show will bring comedy, music and storytelling to northern Minnesota. If you're in the area, you can tune in on the radio. If not, you can check it out online.