One of the great things about having a blog is that I get to post as much as I want about my own peculiar gastronomic obsessions. Of course, I don’t think there is anything peculiar about my love of little Chinese hole-in-the-wall noodle joints, or the fact that this is my third post on the … Read more
I’d never seen "redband" trailers offered on a movie website before. I guess I’d just been going to too many Doris Day movies. Anyway, I was attracted to the one on No Country For Old Men‘s site. It’s the new Coen Brothers movie. Anyway, you click on the redband trailer link, and it asks you … Read more
The Minnesota Timberwolves traded one of the ten best players in the NBA, along with the rest of their starting lineup. They retained a coach who went 12-30 in the second half of last season, and a general manager who has become the default scapegoat–and not without reason–for anyone with even a passing acquaintance with … Read more
I like the rodent. Gotta love the beautiful turn of phrase in a blog. Jeff Horwich over at MPR got off a good one about MinnPost‘s staff yesterday in his piece on the pending competition between MinnPost and The Daily Mole. He described them thus: "[the staff list] reads like the manifest of lifeboats from … Read more
Snubbed again, dammit! I just called the H&M store at the Mall of America to double-check, but it looks like the retailer has decided to skip Minneapolis (yet again) when it launches its massclusive line of Roberto Cavalli for H&M next week. Not that the line is covetable in the first place. (I mean, leopard … Read more
Control is now playing at the Uptown Theatre. There is a wonderful moment the amazing bio-pic Control where Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division, walks to work from his parents home in suburban Manchester. He has a job at a government employment agency, trying to help people get on their feet. As he trudges … Read more
Which camp are you in? A: Truffles are earthy little pungent gifts from the ground that should be prized and savored in a meaningful and creative dish. B: Truffles are overrated bits of hype that chefs use to glam their menus while hiding their technical failings. Honestly, sometimes I’m in both camps at the same … Read more
Well, the biggest secret today is clearly our new website. Be sure to check it and enjoy our new features. No more buried content! You’ll find a much airier feel all around — I hope. Hell, forget about going out. Just spend the weekend digging through the archives and emailing articles to your friends. I’m … Read more
If you are reading this, you are at The Rake’s new web site. And you are looking at the result of a lot of work by Cristina Córdova, our web editor, Matt Bartel, our web geek, Brad Richter of Codewarp, and Erika Stenrick and Ronan Dowling of Gorton Studios. Kraig Larson of Ciceron did the … Read more
Trust me, even when I go away, I’ve got nowhere else to go. I’m always around, a lurker in my own life. The end of the baseball season is always a painful thing for an obsessive/compulsive man who is a complete slave to routine yet has very few habits –with the exception of bad habits– … Read more