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On Location: The Colombian Towns, Architecture, and Music that Inspired Disney’s ‘Encanto’

For film directors and production designers, research trips offer a flood of information about a destination and culture. And for Disney’s Encanto directors Byron Howard and Jared Bush, their two-week trip to Colombia was no different. With Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the Disney flick’s original songs, they traveled from Cartagena on the country’s north coast to the lush valleys and …

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Readers Write: Northstar rail, Glasgow climate summit, gardening, Pope Francis and Biden, small towns

The possibility of shutting down the deficit-plagued Northstar commuter rail line between Minneapolis and Big Lake is back in the news, but doing so unilaterally also has a price: $85 million paid back to the feds for early termination and $107 million invested in train path capacity that cannot be recovered (“Northstar rail runs into more trouble,” front page, Nov. …

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