photo by Denis Jeong I stopped by for lunch at Flame at the Rosedale Mall. I might be biased, because the owners – the same people who own Mission American Kitchen , Atlas Grill, and Via – are friends of mine, but I liked it. It isn’t the place I would go if I were … Read more
GALLERIESTwin Cities Jazz Festival Art Party Join The Rake, along with KBEM Jazz 88 and Artisan Vineyards, for a special edition of Gallery Grooves. Tonight the Twin Cities Jazz Festival kicks off with a snazzy art party featuring festival artist, Christopher E. Harrison. The poster design for the 10th Annual Festival will be revealed, and … Read more
Forget what the press says. Devonte Hynes does not look like AIDS. "It’s pretty harsh," Hynes says about the cruelest comment published about him. "’You look like a terminal illness. You look like death. I don’t know what AIDS looks like." It definitely isn’t him. Decked out in cut-off short shorts, a faux fur hat, … Read more
Giving a sharp sword to a hyper-ass eight-year-old boy goes against all parental logic. But that’s exactly what happened at the "Knight for a Day Camp," a place where kids are whole-heartedly encouraged to go completely medieval. The "Knight for a Day" summer camp was put on by The Oakeshott Institute, a Twin Cities foundation … Read more
Get a little zen with contemporary sculptor, teacher, and garden wanderer Kinji Akagawa. You’ll spend the day with this local master learning about his art and process which will come to a close with a VIP tour of of the artist’s studio and private garden in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley. For the past … Read more
The introduction to this week’s Poem Worth Reading is taken from Bart Schneider’s forthcoming novel, the highly Minneapolized The Man in the Blizzard: "Sometimes I wonder why Americans are as afraid of poetry as they are of al-Qaeda. Screw the ones who’ve decided that poetry’s an effete enterprise. Let ‘em party with the homophobes. It’s … Read more
Last night, The University Club of St. Paul hosted their annual Bloomsday celebration, honoring James Joyce’s Ulysses, a novel whose action takes place on June 16, 1904. A group of eighty or so people, primarily sexagenarian (by one superficial participant’s observations), gathered in a well-lit room. Aside from a fairly amazing reading of Molly’s soliloquy … Read more
MUSICVinyl Venus Space Lounge Cozy Northeast neighborhood nook, the 331 Club, switches gears every Tuesday night to bring you a retro-glam space odyssey courtesy of Twin Cities music scene icon Venus DeMars. The All the Pretty Horses gender-bending front woman is a statuesque and decadently costumed sight to behold, and her charisma definitely rubs off … Read more
While terrorists plotting to obliterate the Xcel Center in a fertilizer-scented blast of hellfire would seem to be the larger cause for concern among the various agencies responsible for security around the RNC, the Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with Texas Security Threat Group officers, the California Department of Corrections and the Sacramento Intelligence … Read more
Wanna be a restaurant critic? Wanna be a citizen journalist? Let’s try an experiment. The Citizen Café is opening tomorrow, at 24th Ave.and 38th St. in south Minneapolis. Instead of just me writing a review (which I will do eventually), how about all of you readers out there visiting the restaurant and sending me your … Read more