Before the 1960s, University Avenue was filled with streetcars and a premier shopping and entertainment destination -- "the place to be." Baseball fans flocked to Lexington Park to watch the St. Paul Saints take on the Minneapolis Millers.

Twin Citians' love affair with food trucks may be more serious than organizers of the area's first Food Truck Festival realized. Some attendees waited 45 minutes to get through the gates, only to find lines dozens of people deep at the trucks. A couple of the trucks ran out of food within two hours.

Saturday marks 37 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975. A crew of 29 men died in the shipwreck. The freighter carrying taconite traveling from Superior to Detroit made its last contact with a nearby ship, the Arthur M. Anderson, a little after 7 p.m. that fateful day. Minutes later, the ship disappeared from radar screens.

Southdale Center in Edina -- the nation's first enclosed shopping mall -- is among the man-made landmarks to be recognized as one of the “10 Buildings That Changed America." The upcoming PBS special, set to air nationally in early 2013, will explore the ten influential American buildings that changed the way we live, work, and play.

Thirty prominent authors have agreed to waive their royalties to allow free distribution of the special edition paperbacks for one night. Those authors include Minnesotans Leif Enger and Kate DiCamillo, who will take part in the event at a Minneapolis book store. Nationwide, volunteers will hand out about half a million books.

75 people were evacuated from adjacent offices Thursday morning after a utility worker with Xcel Energy struck the CenterPoint Energy gas main, causing a leak.

Local movie critics are unanimous in their praise of "Flight," the Denzel Washington dramatic thriller that begins with a spectacular plane crash sequence and then ascends into a riveting drama about addiction. Also reviewed is the dramedy "The Sessions," starring Alexandria native John Hawkes, and the Disney computer-animated comedy "Wreck-It Ralph."