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Joel Kramer Set to Announce Online Newspaper on Monday

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Next Monday appears to be the date for former Star Tribune editor and publisher Joel Kramer to reveal his plans for the launch of a professionally edited and reported online newspaper. From his vacation home in Montana, Kramer, who knows the tricks of the information-peddling trade, is not offering any new details beyond what has … Read more

How The Sugar Daddies Ride

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While some people ditch downtown for their cabins during August, others attend a car show jam packed with more bling, chrome and new 24’s than a Lil’ Wayne video. I am talking about the 7th annual Dub Magazine Auto Show & Concert that rolled into the Minneapolis Convention Center this weekend. D.A.D.’s 300,000 crystal-encrusted Mercedes-Benz … Read more

Moyers on Rove

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As counterpoints to mainstream thinking goes, it doesn’t get much starker than Bill Moyers’ take on Karl Rove’s career and record in this past Friday’s edition of “Bill Moyers’ Journal”. Note the particular point Moyers makes on Rove’s exploitation of religion and religious bigotry for naked political effect and ask yourself why if, A. Moyers … Read more

Glamorama, Glug, Glug

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I’m afraid I was overcooked for Glamorama on Friday night. I arrived to find a throng of ladies in gowns and cowboy boots, which struck me as a tasteful way to celebrate the year’s theme. Barb Heinrich (above), owner of the fabulous Uptown shop Local Motion, represented this look. Me, I was dudded out in … Read more

Leave It to the Masters

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MUSIC It’s Called a Hammond B3 Organ For over five decades, Dr. Lonnie Smith has been taming the 425-pound beast into the the most exquisite jazz. Today he is known as the master of the Hammond B3 Organ — the jazz man with the turban, as some of you might now him. He’s playing tonight … Read more

A Confounding, Improbable Team Once Again Achieves The Confounding And The Improbable

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That logo’s just fine if you’re talking about Johan Santana. You’ll need to insert your own mental s, however, if you’re referring to the Twins’ offense. Down at the Dome this weekend they celebrated the 20th anniversary of the 1987 World Series championship season. Somehow, despite scoring three runs over three games, the Twins managed … Read more

Hillary Owes Rush and Sean

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It was desperate this morning west of the Dry Dock and south of Superior. No coffee! A few beans of de-caf were not going to make it happen, and the likelihood that I was soon going to be stripping off my clothes, painting my warrior-like body barn red with linseed oil and go shrieking off … Read more

Gangchen Bar & Restaurant

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At 8:45 on a Friday night, the more popular Eat Street restaurants are still abuzz, but the dining room at 1833 Nicollet Ave. S. is empty. The former Soul City Supper Club has been reborn as the Gangchen Bar & Restaurant, with a logo that includes a martini glass tipped at a rakish angle. A … Read more