Four runs is the magic number in baseball. If you look at the way things break down year in and year out, the team that scores four runs or more wins the vast majority of its games. The Twins have now scored three or fewer runs in four straight games (all losses), and are on … Read more
Glenn Greenwald talks with the Boston Globe’s Charlie Savage about his reporting that won him a Pulitzer for National Reporting a couple weeks back. Savage got into and continued writing on President Bush’s use of “signing statements”, an arcane and complicated issue with no sex appeal and very little in the way of guaranteed instant … Read more
DANCE AND PERFORMANCE Back from Budapest Tonight begins the Zenon Dance Company’s 24th Spring Season. You have until May 6th to catch the exciting new program, featuring four disparate new works by four different choreographers, including local favorite Danny Buraczeski. Set to the music of jazz legends Bill Evans and Don Pullen, Buraczeski’s piece, Evidence … Read more
I confess to having paid very little attention to Katie Couric. Maybe it really is because I am at heart a digusting, unrepentant misogynist. Or maybe — just maybe — I like a certain gravity of bona fides in my network news readers. Knowing a bit about CBS president, Les Moonves, from having observed his … Read more
The Minnesota History Center’s RetroRama event is tomorrow (Thursday) night. Note: The promotional photo at left was stolen from the History Center’s site. But I feel entitled to it, since it features a moonlighting model/Rake staff member. In any case, about that event: Five local designers, including milliner/ Voltage producer Anna Lee, went digging through … Read more
pimp your Snickers Maybe I’ll be a food stylist. There’s clearly a mastery to that. Maybe I’ll open a giant snack store. Don’t want to be a sushi platter…but I might be a wonton origamist. Somehow, I have to find a gig that let’s me mmmmmmmmm my way around the world… For now, maybe I’ll … Read more
What the hell is up with these ridiculous two-game series? And what the hell happened to that team that swept three from Seattle on the road? Beats me. After stumbling in Kansas City over the weekend the Twins came home and, facing 23-year-old Cleveland pitchers on back-to-back nights, looked anxious and undisciplined at the plate. … Read more
When I was a kid, we often took votes at the dinner table. More often than not, the count was four to one, with my Dad being the one. After the count, he’d invariably announce, “Well, I won again.” When we’d protest, he’d explain, “My vote is the only one that counts.” (My brother soon … Read more
SPORTS Boxing in Minnesota? No kidding. It’s not too often I see the words “boxing” and “Minnesota” together in a sentence — unless of course that sentence is about how there’s little to no boxing here. Being a huge boxing fan, this displeases me, but today I am quite pleased indeed. ESPN2’s Fight Night will … Read more
A few items while I wait for Wednesday night’s Warriors-Mavs and Nugs-Spurs games… There have been many fine tributes to author David Halberstam (my favorite is the superb excerpting of his work by Glenn Greenwald in Salon), and I’d have to put The Making of a Quagmire and The Best and the Brightest alongside Michael … Read more