After selling out a pair of 2024 shows at the former Xcel Energy Center, singer/songwriter Noah Kahan will take his show outdoors when he headlines Target Field on Aug. 5.

Tickets go on sale at noon Feb. 12 through Ticketmaster. Fans have access to a presale if they register at signup.ticketmaster.com/noahkahan by the end of the day Thursday. Kahan is using Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange and tickets will be non-transferable and can only be resold on Ticketmaster at face value.

Raised on a tree farm in Vermont, Noah Kahan started writing songs at the age of eight. He later applied and was accepted to Tulane University, but chose instead to focus on his music. In 2017, he signed a deal with Republic Records and went on to score a hit in 2019 with the single “Hurt Somebody.”

Kahan’s second album “I Was/I Am” was largely ignored in 2021. When he set out to make 2022’s “Stick Season,” he adopted a more pronounced folk-pop style that struck a chord with listeners. Thanks in part to TikTok, the title track became a worldwide hit, as did 2023’s “Dial Drunk” with guest Post Malone.

Collaborating with other artists has become common for Kahan, who made “She Calls Me Back” with Kacey Musgraves, “Northern Attitude” with Hozier, “Everything, Everywhere” with Gracie Abrams and “Homesick” with Sam Fender. Kahan also guested on Zach Bryan’s single “Sarah’s Place,” a Top 5 hit on both rock and country radio.

Last week, Kahan released “The Great Divide,” the first single from his album of the same name, which is due out April 24.

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The Ramsey County Board will use $1.95 million in state grant money to acquire properties to serve as therapeutic treatment homes for youth in the juvenile court system.

Funded through the state Department of Public Safety, the first home is expected to open by the end of the year and the county is currently negotiating with outside organizations for services. Services will include individual and family therapy and trauma-informed therapy methods, anger management, substance use disorder counseling, life skills education and mentorship and extracurricular activities.

Each facility will house up to six young people who have a judicial order for placement and services through juvenile court as an alternative to detention or out-of-county placements, according to the county.

“I just want to say that this is really important work. It’s transformational work,” said county Board Member Tara Jebens-Singh at the board’s Jan. 27 meeting. “There has been heavy lifting from community, from our community engagement teams that have been working on this to make sure that there is community voice in this. And a tremendous heavy lift with staff in the midst of doing many, many, many other things.”

The county board received a total of $4.64 million in funds from the state to establish up to seven “trauma-informed” therapeutic treatment homes in May 2024, with current plans for two to three homes. The homes will be licensed by the Department of Human Services and must provide intensive treatment. Another $4.75 million from the state will go toward services.

The $4.64 million will go in part to 10-year mortgages on the homes, after which the county would have first right of refusal in the case of a property sale, meaning repurchase of the property would be reserved for the county first, as requested by board members.

“We’ve been working on this since like 2019,” said Board Member Rena Moran. “So to get providers who are in this and want to invest in it and want to do this work is really critically important.”

Ramsey County closed Boys Totem Town, its male juvenile corrections facility, in 2019, due to a decline in the number of young people sentenced there and a focus on more community-based programs.

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Stand-up comic Dave Chappelle will perform at St. Paul’s Grand Casino Arena on Feb. 16 as a “statement of respect, unity and unwavering support for the region’s residents” during the ongoing ICE presence in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota.

Tickets go on sale at noon Tuesday via Ticketmaster. Hip hop duo Clipse will open.

The comedian’s decision to perform in Minnesota “exemplifies his decades-long commitment to showing up for communities in crisis and using comedy as a force for connection and solidarity,” according to a news release. “The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul have stood up with remarkable courage and resilience, demanding accountability and justice in the face of extraordinary circumstances.”

Chappelle, 52, rose to fame as the star of Comedy Central’s “Chappelle’s Show,” which ran for 28 episodes in the early ’00s before Chappelle quit, despite blockbuster ratings. One of the most famous sketches featured Eddie Murphy’s brother Charlie recounting a late-night basketball game with Prince. The Purple One loved it and made references to it online.

After the end of “Chappelle’s Show,” the comic mostly stepped out of the spotlight, but returned to regular touring in 2013. That fall, he performed four nights at First Avenue followed by two more at the nearby Pantages Theatre.

In 2022, Chappelle announced a last-minute series of shows at First Avenue that led to an online backlash due to the comedian’s numerous jokes about transgender people. The four performances were ultimately moved to the Varsity Theater. Chappelle made his St. Paul arena debut the following year at the former Xcel Energy Center.

While Chappelle has raised controversy over the years, he’s also been vocal in his support of various causes. He’s a longtime financial contributor to his high school, Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C. In August, he hosted a special preview screening of his documentary “Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life” at the 23rd annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. Proceeds from the event benefited the school’s programming and equipment upgrades and established an endowment for the theater department.

Next week, he’ll join fellow comic Jon Stewart for a live event in Ohio that will raise funds for a community-owned public radio station in Yellow Springs, where Chappelle has lived since 2004.

Chappelle has filmed a series of specials for Netflix and was reportedly paid $24.1 million for 2021’s “The Closer,” which he said will be his last stand-up special for the foreseeable future. He has since released two more specials for the streamer in 2023 and 2025.

No cell phones will be allowed during Chappelle’s performance. Attendees are asked to leave their phone at home or in their car. Those who do bring their phones inside the venue will be required to secure them in a Yondr pouch. Audience members can access their phones at designated stations in the lobby, but will be ejected from the venue if caught using their phone at their seat.

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By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALEXA ST. JOHN, Associated Press

A federal judge on Monday ruled that an offshore wind project aimed at powering 600,000 New York homes can resume construction, the fifth such project put back on track after the Trump administration halted them in December.

In clearing the way for Sunrise Wind to proceed, Judge Royce Lamberth found that the government had not shown that offshore wind is such an imminent national security risk that it must halt in the United States.

President Donald Trump has said his goal is to not let any “windmills” be built, and often talks about his hatred of wind power. His administration froze five big offshore wind projects on the East Coast days before Christmas, citing national security concerns. Developers and states sued to block the order. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers has repeatedly said during the legal battle over the pause that Trump has been clear that “wind energy is the scam of the century” and the pause is meant to protect the national security of the American people.

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Danish company Orsted sued the administration over halting both Sunrise Wind and its Revolution Wind for Rhode Island and Connecticut. In a preliminary injunction hearing on Sunrise Wind at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday, Lamberth cited many of the same reasons that he used when he ruled in January that construction could continue on Revolution Wind.

Sunrise Wind said it would resume work as soon as possible. The state of New York and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, sued the Trump administration over halting Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind because she said the pause threatens New York’s economy and energy grid.

Other federal judges allowed construction to restart in January on the Empire Wind project for New York by Norwegian company Equinor, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind for Virginia by Dominion Energy Virginia, and Vineyard Wind for Massachusetts by Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.

Hillary Bright, executive director of offshore wind advocacy group Turn Forward, cited the industry’s victories in court in saying the government should stop trying to block such projects.

“At a time when electricity demand is rising rapidly and grid reliability is under increasing strain, these projects represent critically needed utility-scale power sources that are making progress toward completion,” Bright said. She estimated the projects combined would generate 6 gigawatts of electricity, powering 2.5 million American homes and businesses.

Sunrise Wind is about 45% complete and expected to be operational in 2027. The Sunrise Wind LLC said in court paperwork that the stop-work order was costing the project at least $1.25 million per day, a figure that would increase in February if construction couldn’t resume. It also said if the work stoppage continued past the first week of February, it might force cancellation.

The government had argued that national security concerns outweigh any harm to the developers from a pause. It said it was relying on new classified information, provided by defense officials in November, about the national security implications of offshore wind projects.

Trump has dismissed offshore wind developments as ugly, but Orsted says the Sunrise Wind project will be at least 30 miles east of Long Island’s Montauk Point, virtually unnoticeable from Long Island. Sunrise Wind will be capable of generating 924 megawatts, enough clean energy to power about 600,000 New York homes.

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