STORYTELLING If You Like to Hear Yourself Talk Start off the evening with a light bite and a bottle of wine at JP American Bistro. Sit out in the patio if the weather and crowds permit. Order a bottle of the Emilio Moro Valladolid ’01. It’s from the Ribera del Duero region of Spain, so … Read more
I’ve always loved west coast road trips and those late-night games that give a guy the chance to get home from work, maybe go to the gym for a couple hours, grab a bite to eat, and then sit down in front of the television to watch baseball as the clock drifts toward midnight. They … Read more
On the flight back to Cleveland after his 48-point, double-overtime performance in Game Five of the Eastern Conference Finals, LeBron James was so literally drained of energy that he required intravenous fluids. Well, somebody better have that drip bag ready two or three times minimum for the NBA Finals that kick off Thursday night in … Read more
Stopped by the candy store on Saturday AM and sampled the following: a brand new Viper, Mustang GT500, Maserati Quattroporte, Corvette Z06, BMW M6 (black coupe, gray convertible), Mercedes 600 V12 biturbo, and, uhm, lets see…a few R class Mercedes. This candy store is also known as Sears Automotive. I intend to drive each of … Read more
This is just released by Nancy Barnes, Star Tribune editor … >>> Nancy Barnes 6/5/2007 5:24 PM >>> Dear Staff: Since Monday, we have accepted 40 people into the voluntary buyout program, for a total of 44 approved buyouts to date. We have also had one resignation in the last month, which brings us very … Read more
Just dropping in to leave an amusing little press release from Target Corp … (Am I the only one who finds this amusing?) Also, I apologize for posting press releases. It’s just that I’ve been drowning in the minutiae of producing a magazine. So there you have it. And here you go: Target Announces Bowie … Read more
It’s a barely kept secret that Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are among the most searched terms on the internet. In fact, if you teamed “rehab” with “Lohan” last week, you got over 6.8 million Google references. That was, of course, topped this week with 6.9 Google hits on “Hilton” and “jail”. I’ve railed here … Read more
Eric Black, the Star Tribune’s Talmudic analyst of things political and media has already plotted his next move, announcing that he will begin an association with Minnesota Monitor a fledgling website with a strong progressive political attitude. Black has taken the recent buy-out, and expects to be fully separated from the Strib by June 15. … Read more
FILM Rare, Weird, Stupid, and Sometimes Brilliant Back in February of 2006 our very own Rake movie critic, Peter Schilling, reviewed Joel D. Stitzel’s Cinema Slop, describing it as a great place “to shut down your brain and settle in with something genuinely awful.” This eccentric movie program goes way beyond the now-standard cult classics … Read more
While the powers that be at the Star Tribune mull who among their employees to keep and who to kick on to “new opportunities”, I talked to my former competitor, Deborah Caulfield Rybak, about one of the stranger ironies of the Strib and so many newspapers’ “hyper-local” business stratagem. (I say “business” because it has … Read more