El Meson, at 35th and Lyndale Ave. S., and its sister restaurant, Cafe Ena at 46th and Grand, have both started offering happy hours. The details are a little different: El Meson is Sunday to Thursday 4-6, while Cafe Ena’s is Sunday to Friday 3-5. but the basic deal is the same: glasses of wine … Read more
Regular Season Game #3, Home Game # 2: Orlando 111, Minnesota 100 1. Not Enough Talent The title of this trey is more than a tad melodramatic for what in many respects was the most mundane of the Wolves’ three losses thus far this season. "Sick" refers to the flu bug that made Theo Ratliff … Read more
WINE & DINE The Rake’s World Flavors Tour Continues Roasted zucchini, red pepper and onion tapanade with a tangerine-swirled Chardonnay/Colombard blend. A light salad in between. Gruyere fondue with apples and a medium-bodied Rhone. Bittersweet Callebaut chocolate fondue with an array of colorful companions, not the least of which is a Rosenblum Desiree chocolate Zinfandel … Read more
I’ve always had a thing for the Corvette Stingray. While the basic style of the car has never been improved on since the mid-60s (see image above) it appears the fastest Corvette of all time is upon us. Based on the Corvette Z06, the "Blue Devil" Corvette will add a supercharger to its 7-liter V8 … Read more
RYBAK: Oh gosh, that Nancy Barnes. How does the girl do it? She’s editor of the Star Tribune and still found time these past two weeks to write a Sunday column filling us in on all the neat goings-on at the paper, just like the old readers’ reps used to do. Why, last week she … Read more
Got a call from J.D. Fratzke, talented chef at Muffuletta in Saint Paul’s Saint Anthony Park. He gave notice last Saturday, and after 10 years working for Parasole, is about to embark on a new adventure – he’ll be a chef and partner at the Strip Club, the new neighborhood steakhouse that Tim Niver and … Read more
BOOKS & AUTHORSPaul Krugman New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman could have chosen a better title for his new book than The Conscience of a Liberal, which he cribbed from the late Senator Paul Wellstone. (Wellstone himself was riffing off Barry Goldwater’s 1964 book, The Conscience of a Conservative.) Krugman’s book is … Read more
For his fifth birthday, in February of 1993, my older son received a watch from his grandparents. It was a black Timex with a rectangular face, digital read-out, and several complicated buttons for setting the date, time, and alarm. Waterproof, shatterproof. He wore it everywhere, including the bathtub and bed. Andrew was a child with … Read more
Remember that time you threw your heart from the window of a speeding car? Was it burning? No, not that time. It was just heavy, a sodden wad of plumbed meat. It felt like a water balloon coated with grease. It couldn’t have weighed more than a softball, and it bounced once on the shoulder … Read more
I am experimenting here with this post but I assume you can click on this link and watch one of the most famous underground car films ever made. In case you are wondering, the French at the beginning of the video says, "the film you are about to see was made without any trickery or … Read more