The Rake Magazine

We all know newspapers are dying, leaving the news to migrate online, but that's hardly the end of the story. Is local online news financially sustainable? And what does the shift from the printed word to a multi-media platform mean for the future of storytelling? The Rake's online editor, Cristina Cordóva, offers a clear-eyed assessment of these questions and also surveys the current array of online outlets for local news, sussing out who's winning, who stands to lose — and how it all shakes out for you, the reader.

Turning to more lighthearted matters: For our semi-annual fashion feature, we convinced a quintet of comely dancers at the U of M to put on new looks for spring and show them off while performing a custom-choreographed dance piece. The results are fresh, fun, and even we'll admit it — a tad frivolous (in a good way!). Elsewhere in this issue, you'll meet some St. Paul high-schoolers scrambling to build a better robot; learn the new spin on trickle-down economics; get the back story on the citrus that's become a chef favorite; find out how to make sushi interesting again; plus much more.