Cristina Córdova

St. Paul Public Libraries Forsaketh the Sabbath

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OK, let me see if I have this right. You published an article about the director of the St. Paul Public Library, and you made some errors, which you corrected and for which you apologized [Letters, October]. You could not fact-check the article, you say, because Minneapolis doesn’t have a reference librarian available on Sunday … Read more

The Great White Wipeout

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Shame on you; the Twin Cities has a kaleidoscope of nationalities, races, and ethnic backgrounds [“What Do You Do?” October]. Yet you all chose to represent only a single minority in your profiles of real-world work. Seriously? Author(s) and Location: Angelica Baldwin, Minneapolis Letter Type: Letter

Unusual Eulogy for a Local

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I read your blurb in the October issue about Dee Dee Bridgewater playing a rare two nights at the Dakota to support her new disk, Red Earth. Dee Dee dedicated this CD to her U.S. sound engineer, Minnesota native James “Hatter” Hatz. A beautiful eulogy for him is printed on the back page of the cover … Read more

Boston

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Ok, so we’re not in a foriegn country, but I still think we’re fun. This is my teammates and I at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. We row for the Minneapolis Rowing Club. In boston we raced in the Club 8 event (that would mean 60+ft boats, 8 rowers, one coxswain). Sadly … Read more

England

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After a few day slogging through the mud at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts (near Shepton Mallet, Somerset County, England), we needed a good, strong Rake. Scott Schiefelbein, Naomi Oshiro and daughter, Miki Oshiro Schiefelbein (all of Minneapolis) were enjoying the mud at Glasto and took a break from the music for a … Read more

Flaunting With the Pharaohs

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Mark Mahon of Minneapolis, who visited the ancient Karnak Temple on a recent vacation in Egypt, sent this dispatch: “The core of Karnak—the temple of Amun, the king of the gods—has 134 pillars built by Ramses II. Subsequent pharaohs built their own vainglorious annexes, shrines, and temples over a 1,300-year period. Ego trips abounded in … Read more

Nothing Is Certain or Unchangeable

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READINGS True Lies As a former editor here, Jennifer Vogel penned some excellent Rake stories: on the emptying of North Dakota, on the necessity of libraries, on walking around a city that’s not exactly pedestrian-friendly. But none was as, uh, memorable as her own memoir, Flim-Flam Man, a book about life with a father who … Read more