Category: Letter

  • Please, Oh, Please, No!

    This month I went to various locales, frantically searching for The Rake, which I could not find. It is the best publication I have seen around here for a long time. I am quite addicted to it and begin to look for it at the end of each month. A teenager told me that you…

  • Red Handed in Nicaragua

    Living in the small rural town of Santo Tomás, in Nicaragua, is hard, but without my Rake it would be downright unbearable. Luckily, my brother and various friends know that I love keeping up to date with Twin Cities affairs, and have enough compassion to send me The Rake every once and a while. Semana…

  • Keep Them Rakes Comin'!

    The people in this photo were impressed by The Rake’s depth and breadth of subject matter. Some of them are Twin Citians on vacation; two spend their time now between Tucson and Puerto Vallarta (the Rake began publishing after they left Minnesota, and they have enjoyed their copies so much they are passing them on…

  • What! No Oliver?

    Some years ago I was stranded at Minneapolis-St Paul airport for 24 hours on route from Portland, Oregon back to the UK.  Unfortunately, and admittedly completely unfairly — as I did not see anything of the Twin Cities themselves — I acquired a distinctly jaundiced view of the area, assaulted as I was by the…

  • Desire to See an Arab Perform

    Recently, I saw The Syringa Tree at the Jungle Theatre and then two days later I saw 9 Parts of Desire at the Guthrie. Both shows designed and directed by Joel Sass.  When I sat watching The Syringa Tree I forgot that Sarah Agnew was performing the text playwright/actor Pamela Gien had written to perform…

  • Pawlenty as McCain's running mate?

    Well. Pawlenty is a great governor in the same way that Bush is a great president. Author(s) and Location: Dave Walbridge, WSP Letter Type: Letter