Hollywood is freaking out. Supposedly, the Writers Guild, Directors Guild, and Screen Actors Guild are all planning to go on strike next year (over royalties from the sale of films through other media), so the studios are rushing projects through the mill as fast as they can. Here’s a list of coming attractions, which includes … Read more
Where does royalty dine when they visit our fair metropolis? When His Royal Majesty King Abumbi II, the Fon of Bafut visited Minneapolis last month, he stopped and his entourage attended a breakfast organized in his honor at the Sunnyside Deli & Coffee Cafe, 1825 Glenwood Ave. N. in Minneapolis. Actually, the Fon, hereditary ruler … Read more
STYLE Minnesota Fashion Fall Fashion Weekend kicks off with a reception this evening, and the next four days are filled with runway events, trunk shows, and other ways to celebrate Minnesota’s small, but growing, clothing design “industry.” In fact, not only does the weekend offer a glimpse of what’s great about local fashion, but it … Read more
Not really knowing anything more about legal issues than what I see on Law & Order, I confess to being among those who focused too tightly on the injunction handed down today against Par Ridder, tossing him out of the Star Tribune for one year. Obviously, the injunction was designed to remove Ridder from a … Read more
With OJ Simpson all over the news again, reminding everyone how subtleties like evidence, logic and common sense occasionally have no bearing at all on the American legal system, I was prepared to hear that after reviewing the evidence in the matter of Par Ridder’s multiple, uh, indiscretions, Ramsey County Judge David Higgs had decided … Read more
I learned early that I’d never be the king of anything. I can for damn sure live with that the short time I have left. Nobody needs to tell me what I am, and I don’t have the time of day for a notion so foolish as who. Leave that horseshit to the pansies. I … Read more
THEATER & PERFORMANCE A Sexy Twist on a Classic Tale On a dark and stormy night, after getting a flat tire, the innocent Brad and Janet are forced to take refuge in an old castle. What they find inside is perhaps in keeping with the expected mad-scientist scenario, but there’s a definite twist. Sure, you … Read more
Is anybody still paying attention? Some of us, of course, can’t help ourselves. Some of us actually watched that game tonight. And some game, huh? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a game end on a dropped pop-up to the second baseman. That there qualifies as tee-ball heroics. Still, the Twins did come back after … Read more
Last time I went to the Mall of America was about ten years ago. My sister was getting married. And my mother swore I would find a good deal on a rehearsal dinner dress at Nordstrom. I parked on Level 26. Entered through a door that I would find out later looked like every single … Read more
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