Author: Christy DeSmith

  • Wedding-Industrial Complex

    It was the event of a lifetime for the few locals who got the invitation (Kristin Tillotson, Melodie Bahan, Alison McGhee … ) Now, for the unfashionable Minneapolitans who didn’t attend former Stribber John Habich’s wedding: Here’s a link to the NYTimes’ lowdown on the affair. A couple note: The slide show is not to…

  • Sundresses: It's Where The Boys Are.

    Our June issue included a short Fashion As It Happens piece about babydoll and potato sack dresses. And while the photos that month weren’t my favorites, the piece’s overall point remains: The figure-obscuring, Christening dress look has been pretty hot this summer. I bring it up now, a month later, because more than one man…

  • Fashion. It's for the dogs

    From Women’s Wear Daily: J. Crew may be going to the dogs. According to a research report from CIBC World Markets, the preppy retailer filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for Crewmutts, a concept for dogs that potentially could be sold in stores and online. The patent for Crewmutts covers products…

  • Paris Minnesota

    As you may or may not know, the internationally acclaimed, Minnesota-based photographer Alec Soth runs a fairly fabulous blog. And his latest post should appeal to the sensibilities of readers of this blog — I like to think of you all as tasteful and yet substantive folks with deep inner lives (you also happen to…

  • Chris Isaak with Alison Scott

    He looks like a cross between Buck Owens and Morrissey—which, come to think of it, is a fairly apt description of the Chris Isaak sound. Whether you were drawn in by that bare-chested babe who pranced about the video for his biggest hit to date, “Wicked Game,” or genuinely fell for the man’s ethereal, rockabilly,…

  • Bush Is Bad

    Regardless of all the reports about beleaguered Republican politicians, it’s liberals who’ve recently been found, by Pew Research Center pollsters, to be “less happy” than their compatriots at the other end of the political spectrum. This madcap musical was created in hopes of cheering them up. Joshua Rosenblum, a New York City-based composer/lyricist, channeled seven…