Month: December 2007

  • Lost Files of the Star Trib Readers' Rep

    Sunday morning’s aren’t nearly as much fun anymore. Not long ago I’d heft the Strib off the doorstep, chuck out the ads, the news and the sports and dig right into my favorite column, "The Readers’ Representative." Having worked for a decade and a half at a daily newspaper, I miss hearing first hand the…

  • Can You Eat Your Way to Better Sex?

    So. I was at the Jewish Community Center on Christmas Day — along with what appeared to be every other fitness-minded non-Christian in the western metro — on the elliptical trainer, reading Self magazine, when I ran across an article entitled The Great Sex Diet. And out of a deep sense of professional responsibility, I…

  • A Post-Christmas, Pre-New Year Sing-along

    FILMA Post-Christmas StoryI firmly believe that music is for everyone — and there is certainly enough from which to choose this weekend — but if you’re just not in the mood (perhaps puckered out from the holidays), you might prefer to kick back in a nice, dark theater for a post-holiday treat. We get so…

  • Found Around Town

    Ephemera def. transitory written and printed matter Here’s a very interesting visual blog that I came across today: ephemerania. It’s simply a collection of photos of found objects assembled together, sort of grouping visual pieces together.   On their own each bit is for the most part insignificant, but together they’re a little bit scrap…

  • postcard power!

    How cute is this girl? I bet her rock band just shreds. While gig posters might be the hot and hip way of promoting, postcards and small fliers for upcoming shows and events can also catch people’s eyes. And because of their small size, and because they’re in every bar nook, cafe cranny, and downtown…

  • Ode to a Sycophant

    The above photo is an altered version of "AZ in Action," taken by Sarah McGee. Mitch Omer, proprietor of Hell’s Kitchen restaurants in Minneapolis and Duluth, responds to Andrew Zimmern’s Perspective in the December issue of Mpls./St. Paul Magazine: "That’s all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more!" ~Popeye the Sailor Some notes…