I was at a wedding this weekend, which reminded me that, at least in Minnesota, summer is the same as wedding season. I’d only met the bride and groom a few months ago, after they’d already sent out the invitations. They were carrying a couch out from a duplex in Kenwood, trying to figure out … Read more
People averse to redundancy will cite the USA men’s basketball team’s sudden accuracy from the three-point line (12-25, after shooting 29% in the previous three games) and free-throw stripe (19-24, after going 69% before) as noteworthy factors in its 37-point rout of defending World Champion Spain, 119-82, on Saturday morning. But if accuracy is what … Read more
Sometimes it is better to show up late. I walked into the third annual Headphone Festival at the Rochester Art Center after it had begun and was immediately aware of the strange social space this event creates. The first floor atrium was divided in two, columns in the middle of the space wrapped in chic … Read more
DISCUSSION Covering the 2008 Election: Perspective from the Frontlines As the Republican National Convention gears up to hit our fair cities with a conservative onslaught in a couple of weeks, and the election looms, so come many politically-themed events of all shapes, sizes and colors. The St. Paul Public Library’s Saint Paul-itics leads the way … Read more
If I hadn’t been surfing the web, I would never have run across the website of The Bush Chicken, the online magazine of Minnesota’s Liberian community, and then I also would never have heard of Vicky’s Place. The ad in the Bush Chicken looked promising, though – it promised fufu and soup, torborgee, attieke, fried … Read more
Above: I found a roadkill fashion site. Lovely. My post on the abuse of automotive icons at church camps has turned up the most amazing things. I was informed (by a source who will remain annoymous) that church camps have the strangest of hazing rites (and here you think writing about cars leads to nothing … Read more
I finally made it to Krua Thailand to try their famous Boat Soup – famous enough at least to have a banner outside the restaurant advertising it. Turns out boat soup is basically the Thai answer to pho, the Vietnamese beef noodle soup – but with one important difference – boat soup is made with … Read more
AMONG THE GREAT unanswerable questions that haunt our city is this one: Why is there a giant, crappy K-Mart superstore sitting in the middle of Nicollet Avenue? For a city that is second-to-none in making catastrophic urban planning blunders, surely the decision in the late-‘70s to plop down a strip mall in the middle of … Read more
Yeah, I could watch this team 365 days a year. Take the world’s greatest athletes (anyone wanna debate that?) motivate them with patriotism and professional pride, give at least two of the most talented–"LeBronze" and the prematurely discounted Dwyane Wade–an extra nudge toward the need for retribution, and then settle in with your fingers on … Read more
BENEFIT EVENT Call & Answer Silent Auction Do a little good and have a good time doing it this Friday at the Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar, as they host the Support the March on the RNC & Stop the War Silent Auction which will feature items such as restaurant certificates, massages, private wine … Read more