Whenever there’s an article purporting to describe the 80s art scene, in which I participated as both an artist and a critic, I brace myself for a “here we go again” reaction. I’ll admit I have low expectations. I anticipate someone interviewing a handful of the same, old players and treating their recollections as gospel … Read more
During one of my semi-annual visits to the Twin Cities last spring, an old friend put me onto a copy of your fine magazine. As I leafed through it, I was instantly impressed. I retired from teaching six years ago to my old home state but still find myself missing the many cultural amenities afforded … Read more
It’s not often that I read something that moves me to write in with praise. Peter Schilling’s article on Fits-Overs [Rake Appeal, July] was so damn funny I couldn’t see straight. His willingness to wear the huge sun-blockers brightened my day. Please pass this along to him, and keep up the good work. Author(s) and … Read more
True, the erratic boundaries that mark “east,” “west,” “north,” and “south” St. Paul are forever confusing the Minneapolitan editors at this magazine. Mr. Frame and several others wrote and called to check us on this point—Jerabek’s New Bohemian, the neighborhood café featured in our August issue, is not on St. Paul’s East Side, as the … Read more
Here’s a shot aboard the Royal Caribbean vessel, the Navigator of the Seas and from the beach of Labadee, Hispaniola (aka Haiti). Thanks for the great issue- it made wonderful reading on the trip! Author(s) and Location: Bryan Thao Worra
I was on Poipu Beach in Kauai last week and made sure to have my current issue of the RAKE with me! Thanks! Author(s) and Location: Jim Settle
Ladies and Gentlemen, our very own Cindi Barthel! Author(s) and Location: Cindi Barthel
The Hunky Dory resort sits atop a small knoll overlooking Lake Clare, in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. It’s changed little since 1902, when it first operated as a working farm called the Hunky Dory Farm Resort. Brochures advertising the place look exactly the same as they did in the 60s. Nor have the kooky cabin names … Read more
Cathy Madison’s “We went crazy for a decade” [July] was a truly pleasurable trip down memory lane—a guilty pleasure, at that, recalling for me the days of fashionable poverty and gallery internships. I spent my student loan money on trips to Chicago and New York, bounced back and forth between the U’s fine arts department … Read more
I was glad to see Cathy Madison’s “look back at a gritty underappreciated decade” of the Minneapolis art scene in the 80s. I’m pleased that she acknowledged that the “first-gallery bragging rights went to the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota,” WARM Gallery, as it was then known. I was disappointed that the rest of the … Read more