How you can tell Kennedy’s lying–his website is down. We were informed last evening of a serious security breach of sensitive Kennedy campaign information by a senior member of Amy Klobuchar’s campaign. This was the first sentence on the new front page of Mark Kennedy’s website today, as he tries to exploit his own vendor’s … Read more
Hmmm, it’s definitely a movie sort of day…. For one, the Walker Art Center will preview its season of films this evening. And then there are myriad opportunities to catch arty short’uns–at the Bedlam Theatre’s Wings on a Shelf Film Festival, for example, (which begins and ends today) and at the Soap Factory’s You Were … Read more
Dear Crappy Restaurants, I know you probably don’t care, but just in case you are having a moment of self-reflection, please go out and buy the current copy of FastCompany magazine. The cover features the ragerific comedian Lewis Black, whom you should recognize as your typical customer: frustrated, agitated, walking away and screaming his story … Read more
There’s not much in terms of exceptional after-school activities today; unless you count the special screening of Meet Me In St. Louis, with a very special guest, the former child star of that film, Ms. Margaret O’Brien (i.e., Tootie). It all happens at the Heights Theatre tonight. What strikes me, however, is that a lot … Read more
Al Franken: God Spoke, 2006. Directed by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus. With Al Franken, Franni Franken, good sport Henry Kissinger, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, and Walter Mondale (all as themselves, obviously). Now showing at the Uptown Theater. Franken will appear tonight after the 7 o’clock show for a Q and A. There … Read more
I was trying to remember where I’d seen the guy before, and it was driving me crazy. I had an image in my head, but I couldn’t quite find the proper context. Was he the sullen waiter with the black eye who’d recently served me at that awful new Italian restaurant in St. Louis Park? … Read more
The seed of what follows was planted yesterday, when I blogged, in passing, about the band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Pretty cool name for a band, huh? And there’s more where that came from in today’s concert listings: Mel Gibson and the Pants. The latter of these plays the Nomad this eve. But … Read more
here puppy, puppy I’m surprisingly OK with the upscaling/gourmandizing/Starbucking of the hot dog. Because once we get through lauding the foie dog, the salmon dog, the wasabi coated tuna dog, the kobe dog, the tofu dog or whatever they decide to come up with, there will be a backlash. All of a sudden classic hot … Read more
I don’t know… what’s going on today? It’s raining. Dave Barry‘s in town. Corey Flintoff, too. At the Nomad: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin–which is a great band name! Anyone read that profile of former president Clinton in last week’s New Yorker? Turns out, Clinton loves Yeltsin, too. In any case, I heard ’em … Read more
There are such beautiful stories tucked away in even the quietest, most settled lives. Maybe people today don’t have the kind of access to memory that folks seemed to have in previous generations. The whiz-bangery of this world crowds out the wonder, and makes it hard to have, or recognize, singular experiences for what they … Read more