Here’s a topic that flares up passions: bras. Or rather, the need to wear better-fitted ones, since the well-endowed among us can cause duress–to others, and especially themselves, while running around the lakes! Yikes! If you crave control or maybe even less back fat, you might care to know that Fit for the Cure is … Read more
like a kitchen mixer … There’s just a bunch of stuff swirling around my brain today… Doug Flicker’s new menu at Mission started on Monday. I slinked in for lunch and had a nice egg sandwich, but our server had to read from his pack of notes to answer quetions, and a different egg dish … Read more
OK. Amy Winehouse is playing at the Varsity tonight, but her show has been sold out for quite a while already, and frankly, I’m sure you already know all about it. And I already told you about Ahmad Jamal’s show in yesterday’s Secrets. So, what other music can you see, hear, and feel? Don’t despair. … Read more
Wow. That game featured a dozen different kinds of ugly. It was ugly enough –particularly if you happen to be one of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays’ 117 fans– that it almost managed to make Big Sid Ponson look pretty. You know, pretty in a greasy, WWF bad guy sort of way. But, what the … Read more
The acutely aware may have already seen this Tom Tomorrow cartoon celebrating the 4th anniversary of, “Mission Accomplished” Day. He attaches the following highly ironic quote from long-blindered/much-syndicated conservative columnist, Cal Thomas: ‘ ‘ “When the Berlin Wall fell and Eastern Europe escaped from the shackles of communism, I wrote that we must not forget … Read more
I’ve always been fond of Tuesdays — perhaps because they are simply not Mondays, perhaps because they are so oft ignored. Give it some credit for once, folks. Give it a chance to impress you. Everyone deserves that. FILM Whet Your Appetite Start the evening with a quirky visual appetizer — and one worth watching, … Read more
Big news from the “Design for All” movement: Starting tomorrow, May 1, Isaac Mizrahi’s new line of bridal wear will be available for purchase at Target.com. There’ll be $160 wedding gowns, bridesmaids’ dresses, even ties and cummerbunds. Now you, too, can wear satin to your shotgun weddings.
I realize I’m running dangerously close to being a two-trick nag on the Star Tribune’s problems with; (1) Charges that publisher Par Ridder plotted abandoning the Pioneer Press for his primary business/financial rival for months before he actually did, allegedly cooking/absconding with executive non-compete contracts in the process, and (2) The paper’s startlingly weak pursuit … Read more
Mondays tend to be planning days, right? Well I just want y’all to get this one on your radar…Next week marks Broders’ 25th Anniversary, and they’re doing it up. Sunday kicks it off with a multi-course wine dinner. Sign up NOW as the dinner benefits the Slow Food MN Educational Fund and space will surely … Read more
It comes as a surprise to absolutely no one that newspaper circulation took another dive in the spring numbers released today by Audit Bureau of Circulations. Locally, the Star Tribune registering a somewhat worse than average decline — -4.8% on weekdays and 5.1% on Sundays. Last week the Pioneer Press claimed its daily circulation had … Read more