rakemag It’s Monday, so I ought to reiterate that there are TWO short-term movie runs going on this week: 13 Tzameti at the Lagoon and Death of a President at Oak Street. (I already mentioned that second thing, I know. And no, I haven’t seen it yet… I’m just really intrigued, that’s all.) But there are … Read more
Well, since the highly anticipated Soap Factory Haunted House has been cancelled… And a decent ticket to the Bob Dylan concert is hard to come by at this eleventh hour… Might I suggest these alternative, but no less indulgent, ways to celebrate the weekend before Halloween? For one, the Antiques Show and Sale, put on … Read more
It’s going to be a good day if you’re wanting to hear writers read from or talk about their works. Robert Bly’s at the University of Minnesota’s Wiley Hall to read some of his poems. Katherine Lanpher’s at the Fitzgerald to plug her new book. But my sincerest recommendation goes to a thrid event: Iranian … Read more
Just two things and I’ll leave it at that. If you didn’t see the Textile Center‘s Artwear In Motion runway show this past weekend, you can still check out the clothes at the center’s gallery (through Saturday). And the Jackson’s Juke Joint series lives on and on and on past the Viking Bar… it’s tonight … Read more
I’m gonna have to throw props to the Hold Steady ‘n Sean Na Na concert at First Ave tonight. Much as I like the guys, I can’t help but note that we’ve seen plenty o’ Hold Steady in the news lately, right? But what we haven’t seen a lot of–at least not in a while–is … Read more
Richfielder Geoff Cuddy has been reading The Rake since day one and never misses an issue. While backpacking through Jordan, he and partner Chris Stevens camped in Wadi Rum, the desert where Lawrence of Arabia was filmed (and where the real T. E. Lawrence adventured). “The night we spent there was the full moon,” wrote … Read more
Earlier this year I was so moved by a piece of fiction in your magazine, “Thin Ice” [March] by Chris Waddington, that I tore the story out to keep. You’ve done it once again. October’s Rake fiction selection, “Party Doll” by Margaret Benbow, contains everything a reader could want, and so very much more. All … Read more
As a board member of Mizna, I appreciated the fine article in the September issue by Leah Fabel on our recent literary gathering and journal release event (“Common Ground: Syria, Somalia and Soccer: The Arab world, as seen from the East Bank”)[Rakish Angle]. I would like to point out that there was more cultural diversity … Read more
Paul Bartlett’s letter [Letters, October] regarding Peter Hutchinson, Independence Party candidate for governor, stinks of antidemocratic hypocrisy. I gather from the tone of the letter that votes not assigned to Republicans are automatically a bourgeois entitlement of Democrats. Ralph Nader and Hutchinson are great Americans who are brave enough to wage uphill battles with conviction, … Read more
I loved Brad Zellar’s article “Local Music: We grow old, we grow old” [October]. Indeed, I’ve felt totally behind on the current music scene. It takes so much time and money to keep up, to keep acquiring new tunes, to keep scouting for new music, that we become geezers before we want to. (Writing the … Read more