Cristina Córdova For starters, be sure to check out photographer Nicholas Marshall’s Voltage 2008: Fashion Amplified Preview. After that, you might be ready to do a little shopping of your own. SHOPPING & STYLEAlexis Hudson Trunk Show Stop by StyledLife today for the first Twin Cities Alexis Hudson trunk show. "Alexis Hudson is the hottest up-and-coming handbag … Read more
Publisher Kristin Henning: Hang Up and Drive. Chief Operating Officer Matt Bartel: Editor Cristina Córdova: Good thing I brought my library card, ’cause I’m checking you out. Calendar Editor Jennifer Havrish: Baby Jesus cries every time you don’t use your turn signal. Advertising Director A.J. Kiefer: In case of rapture… I have dibs on your … Read more
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Passive aggressive and dependent on others of their own kind, box elder bugs create havoc and annoyance when swarming in groups. Todd Sklar, a triple threat in the filmmaking business, wrote, directed, and starred in the coming of age tale, Box Elder. With a shoestring budget and 18 days of shooting, Box Elder is a … Read more
BOOKS & AUTHORSChat It Up: Young Adult Literature With the Minnesota Book Awards right around the corner, you’ll have several opportunities this week to meet some of the finalists. Tonight, our very own Tom Bartel will be hosting a Chat It Up event featuring Young Adult Literature author Patrick Jones. Jones’s book Chasing Tail Lights … Read more
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 … Read more
WINE & DINENew French Cafe Reunion Ah, yes. Remember the New French Café? Many a lovely latte was enjoyed there. Many a meal. Many a show. Many drinks for all. Those were the good old days. And tonight, you can re-live them a bit and reminisce with a New French Cafe reunion at Nick and … Read more
MUSICNellie McKayNellie McKay is certainly like no other — and yet she draws from so many. Ella Fitzgerald one moment. Ethel Merman the next. Soon she abandons the piano keys and is off pantomiming some strange Broadway musical. A glimpse of the past. A peek at the future. She’s got grit alright, but the pretty-little-blond … Read more
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 … Read more
FILM Box Elder Things are changing in the film industry. It’s true. We’ve gone from indie to super-indie, or something of the sort. Todd Sklar is of this new regional indie-auteur variety — the new school of film, or should I say video? With a new HD camera in hand, and a Cine Brevis 35-mm … Read more