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Who wears these clothes?

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Last minute alert for your social calendars: The third annual Sashion Flow (get it, ha-ha) event is happening tomorrow, September 8 at Soo Visual Arts Center. What a great way to combine clothes- and art-making, as I know you Minneapolitans so love to do. The featured designers include Annie Larson and, one of my new … Read more

Sanctuary Has Arrived

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We spotted Michael Kutscheid the other night in the dining room of his new restaurant, Sanctuary, looking proud as a peacock – and even more dapper than usual. The elegant new dining room and lounge, which Kutscheid owns with partners Roger Kubicki and Naomi Williamson, opened quietly last week on the ground level at of … Read more

I Respond to the Surly Masses

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Every so often a comment rolls in too ripe for response to bury in a link. So I’m dragging a couple recent shots across my bow out in the full light of day. (How many metaphors is that?) The first, upset with my “ranking” of local TV newsrooms, says: “Lambert, you love taking swipes at … Read more

Sexuality, Body Image, and Gender

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ART & LECTURE Contemporary Practice of Ancient Women’s Ritual Inspired by a short story by writer Leah Lax, Janice Rubin began documenting the contemporary practice of the ancient and secret Jewish ritual bath, mikvah. The resulting underwater photographs are both sensual and enigmatic, haunting and evocative. But The Mikvah Project is not a one-woman show; … Read more

Ferrari Moms. A Meditation.

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I post the following strange sighting from the summer. This grainy video was captured icognito in the lobby of Colonial Church in Edina. I shot it on a morning when that Mommies (mainly) send their brood off to a camp called, stranger still, Pyro. It was recommended by a Mom to my wife. Now don’t … Read more

Blogging in Your Parents' Basement

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The Literary Review of Canada gives us “The Rise of the Pyjamahadeen: Who says blogging in your parents’ basement is unhealthy?” — Warren Kinsella’s review of Blogosphere: The New Political Arena, by Michael Keren.