Category: Letter

Wow, what a great article Ann Bauer wrote on The Rocky Horror Picture Show [“The Sweet (and Saucy) Transvestite,” October]. When my teenage daughters found a copy of the movie and wanted to know what it was about I described it as an “American classic.” I hoped they would file it next to McLintock! and…

I love [the Band Box Diner]. The chef, and I mean, a chef, came from Caffe Solo [“The Original All-American,” October]. He introduced garlic chicken with mashed potatoes to Minneapolis. He is so nice and runs a wonderful grill. You can have a classic diner dinner and chat him up at the same time. He…

OK, let me see if I have this right. You published an article about the director of the St. Paul Public Library, and you made some errors, which you corrected and for which you apologized [Letters, October]. You could not fact-check the article, you say, because Minneapolis doesn’t have a reference librarian available on Sunday…

Shame on you; the Twin Cities has a kaleidoscope of nationalities, races, and ethnic backgrounds [“What Do You Do?” October]. Yet you all chose to represent only a single minority in your profiles of real-world work. Seriously? Author(s) and Location: Angelica Baldwin, Minneapolis Letter Type: Letter

I read your blurb in the October issue about Dee Dee Bridgewater playing a rare two nights at the Dakota to support her new disk, Red Earth. Dee Dee dedicated this CD to her U.S. sound engineer, Minnesota native James “Hatter” Hatz. A beautiful eulogy for him is printed on the back page of the cover…

Ok, so we’re not in a foriegn country, but I still think we’re fun. This is my teammates and I at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. We row for the Minneapolis Rowing Club. In boston we raced in the Club 8 event (that would mean 60+ft boats, 8 rowers, one coxswain). Sadly…