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TC Spamalot

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hang in there little buddy…. During last night’s Top Chef, I seriously had no idea who was going home. It could have been anyone. But first … LOOOOVED the quickfire challenge. The chefs got $10 and 10 minutes to buy something from one designated aisle at the market. I feel this all the time, when … Read more

Rybak Officially Departs Star Tribune

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Deborah Caulfield Rybak, the Star Tribune’s media reporter officially resigned Tuesday after months of deliberations. Rybak took on the media beat in 2004, after coming to the paper in 2001. Earlier in her career she spent 10 years at the Los Angeles Times. When the Strib announced its most recent round of buy-outs this past … Read more

A Day of Learning and Reckoning

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ART Practice What You Preach With so many great art galleries and artists in town, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the high-profile exhibit spaces and lose sight of some of the most productive and interesting venues — the colleges. While we occasionally make our way to one or two of the numerous (and … Read more

Conquering Ozymandius

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You’ve seen this image before. Of course you have. If nothing else, at least a cheap print in a college dorm. (I had one myself. I mean, it’s beautiful, albeit cliché at this point.) It’s Gustav Klimt’s Gold Portrait, stolen from Viennese Jews in 1938 and now the most expensive painting ever sold — and … Read more

Honesty and Illness Aren't Restricted to Lifetime

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After a reasonably successful short (Lena’s Spaghetti) in the Telluride Film Festival, Director Joseh Greco set out to make “a film about mental illness that was not only true to [his] experience, but also universal” — an emotionally honest look at schizophrenia. I’ll spare you all the plot details, which on paper (or screen) might … Read more

Has Anyone Seen My Nukes?

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The Military Times is reporting that 6 Nuclear warheads were accidentally flown from North Dakota to Louisiana on August 30. The best part of the story is that no one noticed the warheads were missing until the flight landed. D’oh.

A Mercedes for the Mountain

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Dah car ees guut. The pic is smoll. I have always been a bigger fan of vertical speed than the horizontal kind. Nothing beats a hurl down the hill under one’s own power. As we approach winter I will be waxing about this most excellent of all sports. (Ski racing in paticular, the last remaining … Read more

A little Jersey armpit

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So I’m talking to my friend Schneider today and he asks, “Are you watching Wine Library TV?” “Damn,” I think to myself. “I guess it’s time to bite the bullet and get cable.” First I find out there’s this show on HBO featuring dysfunctional couples having real sex; not good sex, mind you, and never … Read more

Flu-inducted stupor or fall/spring fashions?

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Sorry to have disappeared for the past several days. I’ve been nursing some frightful, flu-like symptoms that, sadly, have kept me off my game. But I would like to acknowledge that, yes, I’m aware that New York Fashion Week is in swing. No, I am not among the attendees … But from what I’ve seen … Read more