(AP Photo/Jim Mone) If you haven’t been paying attention, you’ve been missing a strange, maddening, encouraging, teetering-on-the-brink-of-disaster one day, triumphing-over-adversity the next, almost wholly improbable stretch of baseball from the Minnesota Twins. The Twins season to date doesn’t really add up, and they’re certainly not going about their business the way past teams have. Yet, … Read more
SINGLES NIGHTSilver + GoldNow that summer is slowly but surely staking its claim, it’s time to put that pent up Spring fever to good use! Each and every Tuesday, Clubhouse Jager puts on a hip and sizzlin’ singles night with hot, hot tunes by Jonathan Ackerman, 2-4-1 drink specials, and of course, plenty of beautiful … Read more
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The Mighty Ducks trilogy is easily the best movie franchise ever to come out of Minnesota (as far as I know). Still, I take issue with a few things in the movies. Specifically, twelve things. Coach Bombay must have been on something if he was under the impression that he had a shot at pro … Read more
Today marks the opening of Imaginary Bags at One On One Bicycle Studio (117 North Washington). For one week, a limited series edition of messanger bags — with one-of-a-kind graphics by eight local and national artists — will be on display at One On One, and open for auction bids. The weeklong event — a … Read more
I was recently talking to a Minneapolis artist who was, as many Minneapolis artists of a certain generation are wont to do, rhapsodizing about the glory days of the Warehouse District art scene in the 1980s. Before it was home to a hundred thumping dance clubs and one of the most heroically awful franchises in … Read more
Finding good Thai food in the Twin Cities isn’t easy — the best I have found recently has been at True Thai on Franklin Ave. E. in Minneapolis. I have been very disappointed with what I have tasted at the Thai restaurants in Uptown, and though I have only sampled a few dishes at Otho … Read more
PERFORMANCE American Poetry Slam Idol Unlike the creepy commercial beast that is the American Idol TV show, this evening combines the dark and nostalgic atmosphere of the Artists’ Quarter with some of the Twin Cities’ most brilliant and gutsy spoken-word artists. The poets will be judged by rowdy audience members and even a few local … Read more
After having a fun conversation with Jason DeRusha about what people’s desks say about them, he was kind enough to get approval for me to come down to WCCO and take some candid snapshots of the areas that our favorite TV STARS call home when the lights, cameras, and action go out. Frank VascelleroI first … Read more
I still can’t say whether the act of reading is more exit or entrance. Even as books and criticism concern about half of my professional life – and my professional life concerns about half of my life-life (er, carry the one…) – when I’m reading a novel, assigned or otherwise, I still feel like I’m … Read more