rakemag As we enter the modern age of paperless-ness, there seems to be an increased hue and cry bemoaning the impending loss of the paper newspaper. I’m one of those people. What will I line my bird cage with, wrap my fish in, or spread across my floor as I paint my living room? Will newspapers … Read more
The attached photo is of me and my wife Christine Homsey sailing a 52 foot Beneteau Oceanis 523 in the Sir Francis Drake Channel just South of the island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. We are part of a group that every few years charters sailboats bareboat (we crew the boat ourselves) in … Read more
Margaret Lonergan in Panama Author(s) and Location: Margaret Lonergan, Minneapolis
How sad and impoverished must life be for the anosmiacs among us, those poor wretches who have lost the ability to smell? C’est tragique! as Marcel Proust might say, who also said, “When nothing else remains from the past, friends and things long gone, the odors from their living remain as tiny drops of their … Read more
The Minnesota Orchestra’s concert on July 21 will celebrate the talent of one of its own, the trumpeter and jazz composer Charles Lazarus. Not only will Lazarus play as a soloist, but the program will include a selection of his original compositions, which will be paired with Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s seminal 1861 symphony Night in … Read more
Minneapolis’s music scene in the ’80s is a persistent source of nostalgia, pride, and perhaps even fairy tales. Laurie Lindeen was there; her role as guitarist and vocalist in Zuzu’s Petals, an all-girl Minneapolis rock band, put her front and center for plenty of storied music moments. She even went on to marry the crown … Read more
Greetings from Carnival 2007 in Rio de Janeiro! Copacabana beach and Sugar Loaf are in the background. Having a great time. Wish you were here! Author(s) and Location: Dale Stenseth, St. Louis Park
This avid and perhaps dangerously optimistic reader traveled to the island of St. Lucia in June with his wife in order to celebrate the couple’s tenth anniversary. “I got a good chuckle out of the ‘Beware Of Falling Coconuts’ signs on Jalousie Beach,” wrote Mark Ferry of Wayzata. “I never had one fall on me, … Read more
The other day, sitting in a little pizza place with a friend, I thumbed through a copy of The Rake and found “And Now This: Breaking the Spirit of Your Newborn Child” [May]. I just couldn’t believe what I was reading, so I had to do my own research. Now, the publisher you cite exists, … Read more
As the executive director of The Wildcat Sanctuary, the only accredited sanctuary in the Upper Midwest, I wanted to thank you for your insightful article “Cat Scratch Fever” [May]. The article helped raise awareness of the exotic pet trade in Minnesota and the United States. In one year alone, The Wildcat Sanctuary assisted authorities in … Read more