Today’s (Random) Featured Posts
July 2, 2008: Only Hot As Heck
July 2, 2008 By Jimmy Gaines
This Magazine, Martyred
December 19, 2007 By Cristina Córdova
The Hart family (Brooke and Sean, along with sons Rio and Kai) of Minneapolis stumbled into an unusual situation while visiting Tanzania: A meeting with members of the Hadzabe, a nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe situated in the Yaeda Valley, was followed by a barbed exchange of sorts. The Hadzabes’s arrows won out against The Rake, Brooke […]
Late Breaking
January 23, 2007 By The Rake
From the department of good news: I just found out about this rock show at the Hexagon tonight. Check it! It’s called the 8 Ball Unplugged. Twenty-three acts each do eight-minute sets. Here’s the lineup, roughly: Faux Jean Bill Caperton Bethany Larson Danny Sigelman (MPR night dj guy) Brian Just (Beight) Brad Senne (Beight) Travis […]
The New Standards
June 22, 2005 By The Rake
Is this a misprint? Nope. The Suburbs’ Chan Poling, Semisonic’s John Munson, and Steve Roehm (“Your Neighborhood Trio”) are indeed playing American songbook standards on the chill stage at the Dakota. A little Rodgers & Hammerstein, a little “Love is the Law”—it’s a surprisingly sweet blend in the hands of these accomplished local rock gods […]