Joe Murphy/NBAE/Getty Images Let’s start this with the big fat cavaet that I rarely watch, and am certainly not very well versed about, college basketball. And since two of the key principals in the eight-player swap that the Timberwolves and Grizzlies pulled off in the middle of the night Thursday/Friday are high-caliber college players, I … Read more
FESTIVALSPride Weekend Spotlight: LOW LIFE MinneapolisAs part of the all-city-consuming extravaganza that is this year’s Pride Weekend, hip (and delicious) Loring hot spot Nick and Eddie jumps on the bandwagon for their first year open during the Festival. Calling in favors from their hipper-than-thou friends in New York to rock the alley behind the restaurant, … Read more
Instead of giving you the day-by day-reports of Melly in Aspen, here are a few of the highlights. Swiller decided that we all should get a little high from mother earth, and we did — a super cold, wet, and intense high, care of Blazing Adventures. After the 45-minute bus ride, in which we made … Read more
One of my favorite little lunch spots is the Chinese deli hidden away inside United Noodles, the oriental market hidden away inside the Seward neighborhood in south Minneapolis. There are only five tables, and no table service – you order at the counter, and bus your own dishes when you’re done. The menu is very … Read more
*****Check bottom of text for live blogging updates Last update of McHale-Stack-Hoiberg press conference at 1:45 a.m.**** It’s less than four hours before the start of the NBA Draft and as most regular readers know, I claim no expertise in these matters–life’s too short, and college hoops loses out to my family, music, politics, etc., in … Read more
After getting settled into the "Swilly Suite" and meeting up with the girls, we all decided that we should check out and meet the other guests at the Hyatt. A few lobster rolls, sparkling water—and, yes, white wine—later, it was clear that Aspen was not just going to be any old vacation; it was a … Read more
Wanted comes on like a batshit crazy mash up of a dozen other genre movies but manages to stand alone as something more by the time it reaches its frenetic and bloody conclusion. It’s probably (but only a little) curmudgeonly to gripe about the apparently permanent change in the visual language in action films in … Read more
ARTEcho Through The WavesIs the office of an independent record label and media company a strange place for an art show? Perhaps. But considering the Twin Cities scene seriously thrives on collaboration in art, music, and fashion, and the peeps at 50e are in the position to know what’s up – I’d reckon we’re in … Read more
Generally, "ations" are regarded as good things. Propagation, masturbation, fornication, copulation, lubrication – all activities mankind finds to be worthy efforts. However words containing this benevolent suffix are have recently been besmirched by the smear campaign being waged against one of their brethren. And with oil prices rising like Dirk Diggler’s imposing lightsaber, the war … Read more
The melancholy in the eyes of the gorilla imprisoned in the zoo, I think it is real. He is confounded by the loss of his freedom. He sorrows at what his captors have evolved into. Minneapolis has two life-size bronze sculptures of gorillas by the late British artist Angus Fairhurst, who this past March committed … Read more