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
Let’s face it. The Days of Wine and Roses are past. This is January, month of frigid temperatures and atonement. And all I have to say is, if you overindulged in December. . . .well, join the club. I’m not a glutton by nature. I don’t typically stuff myself; I’ve been drunk maybe twice in … Read more
I had a lovely dinner last night at the Grand Café: cauliflower soup with a fig gastrique; pan-seared scallops with porcini-potato pave, and lean slices of medium rare bison (buffalo) top sirloin with lentils, bathed in a fig and port wine demi-glace. Then this morning, I happened to see the full-page ad in the New … Read more
Ok… I made a promise to my husband and kids that — although I amknown to get a little out of control — they would never have to worry about me pulling a Britney Spears. Well, I pulled a Britney, but it wasn’t my fault! 🙂 Here is what happened. My whole life I have … Read more
Forget about looking back … let’s guess what’s in store for 08! If a rat can charm us, why not a bug? The next great food film to be revered by adults and tolerated by kids will be a jaunty romp with Corky Cockroach as he sings his way through a scrappy life spent in the bottom of … Read more