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Plus: Retirements and layoffs cut into Xcel Energy’s fourth-quarter profits; radio DJ Larry “Moon” Thompson dies; Russell Nicolet, the New Billboard King of the Upper Midwest; and more.
Also this week: "Murder on the Orient Express" from Duluth Playhouse, Duluth Does Elton John, Cider North at the DECC, a love-themed market at AICHO and "Hundreds of Beavers" at Zeitgeist.