FOOD Food and Fun at the Fair Don’t let a little rain (or job responsibilities) get in the way of your general well-being and nourishment. (Take a mental health day if you need to.) Join us at the Minnesota State Fair as Minnesota cooks and celebrity chefs create award-winning fare in Carousel Park. Though I … Read more
I’ve got Little Jimmy Scott crooning from the stereo and that’s never a particularly good sign, at least so far as mood barometers go. At this point I’m not fool enough to say that’s it, but I nonetheless can’t deny that I’m mighty tempted to say that’s it, even as I’ve been mighty tempted to … Read more
If you drink a lot of pop or bottled water, then recent news reports have given you one more thing to feel guilty about. You have probably read about how producing all those plastic bottles requires millions of gallons of oil every year and that most of those plastic bottles wind up as landfill. And … Read more
hey, you got some grass? Saturday’s Fair Index (with apologies to Harpers) Number of Lark-bound old ladies that got stuck in the fergaliscious crowd in front of KDWB: 2 Chances that someone sucking down a shake by the dairy barn would step in dung: 1 in 4 Ratio of fanny-packs to tube tops at noon: … Read more
Everyone’s criteria for a valuable on-line news site is different. Mine requires that professional writers are able to produce BETTER copy than they were able or allowed to do within the heavily-mediated institutional voice of daily newspapers. Otherwise, what’s the point? This attitude assumes that dullness and blandness afflicts daily journalism as much as piratical … Read more
Joel Kramer finally unveils plans for MinnPost.com.
A funny comic from www.lastkiss.us.
The amount of Italian iron in the Twin Cities never ceases to amaze me. I was once again stunned by the annual Wheels Of Italy Show that took place at Lake Calhoun this weekend. Good thing I had my plane to take this aerial photo (so its from two years ago but the picture just … Read more
In its entirety: INTERNET-BASED DAILY NEWS ENTERPRISE TO BE LAUNCHED THIS YEAR MINNEAPOLIS, August 27, 2007 MinnPost.com — an internet-based daily providing news and insight for Twin Cities and Minnesota readers — will launch later this year. Joel Kramer, CEO and editor, announced that he has raised $1.1 million in startup funds for the not-for-profit … Read more
See one of the two Opus comics that 25 of the 200 or so client newspapers might not run due to Muslim references.