Hosted by the Rondo Community Coalition, the annual street festival honoring the legacy and culture of the historically Black Rondo neighborhood featured retail and food vendors, live music and dance performances, and a new “Health and Wellness Zone” that offered screenings and wellness resources.

This is the third year of the block party, which includes live music and a kids zone.

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Decades before Professor Karass enters her office at an unnamed religious institution, a pastor and two hospital orderlies performed a failed exorcism in that same room. That, combined with a colleague’s reckless use of artificial intelligence to write Professor Karass’ course descriptions, makes her uneasy and frustrated. The lighting and set design — as well as the players openly expressing their own anger, unease, frustration and sorrow — draws the audience into the institution, putting them in suspense and eliciting laughs.

Presented by Madlads Productions at Mixed Blood Theater; 10 p.m. Aug. 2, 8:30 p.m. Aug. 5, 7 p.m. Aug. 8, 4 p.m. Aug. 10

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“Duluth: An Improvised Midwest Murder” showcases what the performers know — and don’t know — about small-town Minnesota. In the first show, presented Friday evening, they explore a serial sandwich-making, smut-loving, womanizing killer as well as someone tainting sugar beets with meth on the loose in Ada, a town of 1,700 in northwestern Minnesota.

The players adapt quickly with mixed results but big laughs, and they speak in the heaviest Minnesota accents imaginable. The scene changes can be hard to distinguish, because players remain in the same dress throughout, but the lightning changes help. Still, the klutziness is what’s funny.

Presented by Duluth Improv at Rarig Nolte Xperimental; 7 p.m. Aug. 2, 10 p.m. Aug. 7, 1 p.m. Aug. 9, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 10

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Watching “Ranger Jim” feels like sitting at a family dinner, listening to your grandpa tell stories. Do they get a little topsy-turvy around the edges? Sure. Has he told them countless times before? Absolutely. But you can tell, from the glint in his eyes, that he knows they’re good ones.

Ranger Jim himself is Jim Stowell, an acclaimed storyteller who worked for 16 years as a seasonal ranger in the U.S. National Park System. His show is a collection of three stories that, like national parks themselves, are beautiful and harrowing and, in ways both mundane and profound, remind us how big the world is.

Presented by Dogdog-Beardog at Rarig Kilburn Theatre; 4 p.m. Aug. 3, 10 p.m. Aug. 4, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 8, 8:30 p.m. Aug. 10

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The Minnesota Fringe Festival is presenting nearly 100 hourlong stage acts from July 31 through Aug. 10 around Minneapolis. Visit MinnesotaFringe.org for ticket and show information.

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