As the cold weather digs in its claws to take hold for the next four months, we must keep things in perspective by remembering one key fact: This city’s greatness depends largely on the cold. Sounds strange; I know. But can you imagine a city as great as this one with decent weather? It’d be … Read more
Remember Cue at the Guthrie? The press release from the Guthrie Theater touting a January three-course prix fixe menu for $29.95 took me by surprise. This isn’t just a prix-theater early bird special – it’s available any time, and includes a free self-guided iPod tour of the theater and complimentary glass of wine or cup … Read more
It’s January and I’m ecstatic. Well, ecstatic like someone who has crossed a marathon finish line and can finally stop running. I love the holidays. But I loved them lots more before I knew the whole damn show was powered by one frenzied woman on a gerbil wheel – and she’s me. This year there … Read more
Here’s how we end up at Gusto Cafe & Wine Bar in Hopkins: It’s Saturday evening and we have nothing to do because the party we thought we were attending actually is next week (someone — that would be me — put it on the wrong space in the calendar) and all the kids are … Read more
Today, I did more sleuthing for the coming February fashion feature and uncovered this treasure: Kim Bartmann, owner of Bryant Lake Bowl and Barbette as well as a lover of all things vintage, has an original "Souper Dress" on display at her new-ish Red Stag Supper Club (see my mediocre snapshot below). This paper dress, … Read more
So, yesterday I started working on the February fashion feature, for which men and women pick fashions for their sweethearts. (Check the crappily laid-out online version from last year.) First stop was Stephanie’s in Highland Park with WCCO-TV reporter Jason DeRusha, who picked out a darling dress for his darlin’ wife. That dress, however, shall … Read more
And if you’re not eating Japanese yet, what exactly are you waiting for? First, there was a minor surge in the opening of small sushi and bento box places over the past year. Then, last week, in roughly the time it took for 2007 to become 2008, we went from an urban core with shamefully … Read more
FILMThere Will Be Blood The latest from director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) is rumored to be a front runner for the best-picture Oscar, but that’s highly unlikely. There Will Be Blood is magnificent, epic, and utterly bizarre; films this weird never win the big one. Based loosely on Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!, … Read more
More like a mea maxima culpa. In my very first guest post here, I used the Rachel Bliss show at Cliché as an illustration of art works on display in places other than galleries, something that happens more and more here in Minneapolis. And then I posted the work of the wrong Bliss. The artwork … Read more
I know I said yesterday that I was going to talk about my favorite books from 2007. I’ll do that eventually, I suppose, although who really gives a rat’s ass? Right now I’m all worked up about something else, so the book nonsense will just have to get shoved aside for the time being. I’m … Read more