rakemag In our “Murder By Numbers” piece, we included three homicides by members of the Minneapolis Police Department. We then received a few phone calls from angry and/or curious readers who wanted to know why we’d done such a thing. Here’s the answer: We included them because they are part of the violence we described in … Read more
Brian Turner, Sean Bernard and John Cosgrove in some Irish Pub that they can’t remember anything about, except the bill was 150 euros when all was said and done. Author(s) and Location: Brian Turner, Sean Bernard and John Cosgrove
OMAB: Oh, my achin’ back BIMD: Back in my day NIMH: Not in my house WTD: What the devil? LOL: Lots of luck PTIYPASI: Put that in your pipe and smoke it TMWP: Take my wife, please. SAN: Stuff and nonsense IMHO: I may have over-imbibed TDTIR: Turn down that infernal racket! PMF: Pardon my … Read more
This month, the Minnesota History Center hosts its debut RetroRama event, whereat America’s mid-century lifestyle will be celebrated, relived, and perhaps even a little bit appropriated. The series kicks off April 26 with a post-war-themed fashion show. (A vintage furniture event is planned for November.) Five local fashion designers, including Anna Lee (see page 90), … Read more
Dear Rake Photo editor: This is a photo of attorneys Celeste Grant and Debra Heisick celebrating the November 2006 elections (results received by email) on a houseboat in the backwaters of the Arabian Sea in Kerala, India. We were in India to visit lawyer friends, judge a moot court competition, celebrate the 40th Anniversary of … Read more
Look, I like The Rake and was delighted to join in the celebration of its “First Ever Fifth Anniversary Issue.” I was even more surprised to see our Saintly City remembered in Jon Lurie’s piece “The Secret Garden” [March]. I delighted in the reading until finding my enjoyment tempered by the misstatement of a few … Read more
Always up for an experiment, Flaneur Productions distributed a top-secret passage from an obscure work of literature to a group of six local performers earlier this year. Each was instructed to use the text (still secret as of press time), along with the show’s creepy venue (a former coffin factory), as inspiration for the beginning … Read more
GrovelandGallery.com; 25 Groveland Terrace, Minneapolis; 612-377-7800 Stella Ebner’s One Day, in the main gallery of this Kenwood institution, features lovely, quiet woodcuts with domestic themes—a pile of bills, a tumble of opened envelopes, a sink full of dishes. These simple prints echo the matter of everyday existence, the true flowers and landscape of our lived … Read more
Well, tomorrow evening I’m going to see Lost in the Stars, a Kurt Weill opera put on by the company formerly known as North Star Opera, but is now called Skylark. If I wasn’t going there (isn’t this usually the case…) I would, honest to God, hit the Junior Brown show, for old time’s sake. … Read more