The Daily Mole
Minnesota Monitor gives us the dirt on Steve Perry’s new website. Check out the great teaser.
Cue, Once Again, Barber's Adagio for Strings
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. –Chekhov, Uncle Vanya It’s all just history now, that still incomprehensible day six years ago, history buried under history, with more awful history heaped on top of it. It gets buried deeper all the time. Rubble and ruin … Read more
Minnesota at Forefront of Magnetoencephalography
The Economist’s recent article “Magnetic Personalities” reveals University of Minnesota scientist Apostolos Georgopoulos’s studies on the brain’s magnetic impulses.
Keep Your Baby Safe from Flying Bullets
Bullet Proof baby is actually a promotional site for the new movie Shoot’Em Up, but, man, if you don’t know that it can pretty startling.
Escape Telemarketers
You have just a few more days, until September 15th, to register your phone number(s) with the National Do Not Call Registry. Do it now.
VIDEO: I Lived on the Moon
Enjoy this beautiful morsel.
Out of Tragedy, Something Good Must Come
It’s September 11th, folks. And while you might want to take a moment to reflect — and perhaps contemplate what that has meant within the larger context of our lives and those around us, near and far — this is certainly no time for inertia. Do something! Anything. Raise your voice. Better yourself somehow. Nurture … Read more
Steven Brown to Ivy? "No Comment"
The rumor is floating around restaurant kitchens – or at least one restaurant kitchen – that the talented Steven Brown is leaving Harry’s Food and Cocktails to become executive chef for the new upscale restaurant at the Ivy Hotel, a Starwood Hotels luxury property scheduled to open later this year at 1115 2nd Ave. S. … Read more
Petraeus & Crocker: We Waited for This?
Even with my “Expectation Meter” set to zero, the opening statements from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker at today’s House hearings left me wondering how two reports advertised as “balanced” could be so nakedly compromised? I listened — via NPR and the stammering Neal Conan — on the drive down from Duluth and … Read more
Bergman Tribute: All Is Not Lost
Few filmmakers can be said to have had as tremendous an impact on film as Ingmar Bergman. With 62 films under his belt before his death this past July, Bergman influenced some of the greatest filmmakers today — Woody Allen, Robert Altman, David Lynch — and ultimately set a standard for film students across the … Read more