rakemag I happen to be of the mind that there’s nothing very interesting happening tonight… And you know what that means: movie night! Cinema des Artistes is the fittingly pretentious name for a recurring event sponsored by Cinema Revolution, that foreign and indie DVD shop that’s located just above one of the three-dozen new Dunn Bros. … Read more
Did any of ya’all see the done-up harlot modeling the “natural” look on the back page of the Signature section in yesterday’s Star Tribune? Hmpf! Here I’d been thinking I was rocking the natural all along–for some ten years now, ever since I gave up on foundation, back in college, when I figured how poorly … Read more
Here’s something that pisses me off. I mean, it’s cool and all to be making monster trucks for the vulnerable soldier sect, but what irks me is how this fellow was originally thinking more along the lines of a pimped-out, rap star-style ride. And now of course, he’s making a killing off the war. Yes, … Read more
Be my Venus, baby. On the cultural docket for this weekend: happy hour with my running club (a less-organized variation of the Hash House Harriers, we, too, are a drinking club with a running problem), watching Singing In The Rain with my two best friends (yes), and, with any luck, dragging my mother and my, … Read more
By the way… If you happen to have a literary tattoo–you know, some sort of text excerpt from a favorite poem or book–you must get in touch without further ado! I’m looking for lettered tattoos that reference the greats… And I promise not to critique your taste in literature. Or your biceps for that matter. … Read more
Is it just me, or does all the great work by living, breathing playwrights get produced in March, April, and May? It’s just me, of course… I’ve seen plenty’a great, new works at other times of the year; I very much enjoyed Alan Berks’ new play at Gremlin Theatre just this past February, for example. … Read more
Our April issue hit newsstands today. Check out the new Rake Appeal section for a piece about the curious folks who live in storefronts. If you’re interested in joining their likes, check out this storefront–for sale in West St. Paul.
They were painful, those three years we spent waiting for the lights at Town Talk Diner to flicker on again. A series of delays only added to the tension for fans, who were dying to see what a quartet of hotshot refugees from some of the Cities’ (and the nation’s) finest restaurants would do with … Read more
The North Dakota article by Jennifer Vogel [“No. 1 Hard,” February] made me want to move back to North Dakota. After living in Minnesota for many years, I have listened to put-downs of North Dakota from fellow workers and friends. But I have always taken it with good humor. After all, most of these people … Read more
Regarding Clinton Collins’ March column [“Who are you calling an ‘underperformer’?”]: You don’t have to go to Silicon Valley to find this point of view about U.S.-born Caucasian students. You can find it here at the U of M. I am a research faculty member in the Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health. For … Read more