Once again, your best bets this weekend, cinema-wise, are to be found at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, and the Childish Film Festival within it in particular. This weekend sees a pair of international features for kids and some awesome animated shorts. On Saturday, take the young ones to Flights of Fancy, wonderful shorts … Read more
ramps, my dears, ramps! It looks like a nice weekend for a drive, no? Choose wisely and head down to the historic LeDuc Mansion in Hastings for a little food festival sponsored by the Northern Heartland Food and Wine Learning Center. Check out wine and cheese pairings with Nan Bailly of Alexis Bailly Vineyards and … Read more
The little house with its peeling paint and mossy shingles was set well back from the street and appeared to be floating in a sea of saffron grass bleached by the sun and burnished by the fleeting sweep of twilight. It was hot. There wasn’t a shadow left in which to take refuge, and there … Read more
Ok. If you want to meet Sarah Jessica Parker, stop by Macy’s at noon. She’ll be there promoting her new Lovely fragrance — and talking to those starry-eyed enough to spend over $125 on a gift set. 12:00 p.m., first floor cosmetics, Macy’s, 700 On The Mall, Minneapolis; 612-375-3199. Good, now let’s get to the … Read more
Four runs is the magic number in baseball. If you look at the way things break down year in and year out, the team that scores four runs or more wins the vast majority of its games. The Twins have now scored three or fewer runs in four straight games (all losses), and are on … Read more
Glenn Greenwald talks with the Boston Globe’s Charlie Savage about his reporting that won him a Pulitzer for National Reporting a couple weeks back. Savage got into and continued writing on President Bush’s use of “signing statements”, an arcane and complicated issue with no sex appeal and very little in the way of guaranteed instant … Read more
DANCE AND PERFORMANCE Back from Budapest Tonight begins the Zenon Dance Company’s 24th Spring Season. You have until May 6th to catch the exciting new program, featuring four disparate new works by four different choreographers, including local favorite Danny Buraczeski. Set to the music of jazz legends Bill Evans and Don Pullen, Buraczeski’s piece, Evidence … Read more
I confess to having paid very little attention to Katie Couric. Maybe it really is because I am at heart a digusting, unrepentant misogynist. Or maybe — just maybe — I like a certain gravity of bona fides in my network news readers. Knowing a bit about CBS president, Les Moonves, from having observed his … Read more
The Minnesota History Center’s RetroRama event is tomorrow (Thursday) night. Note: The promotional photo at left was stolen from the History Center’s site. But I feel entitled to it, since it features a moonlighting model/Rake staff member. In any case, about that event: Five local designers, including milliner/ Voltage producer Anna Lee, went digging through … Read more
pimp your Snickers Maybe I’ll be a food stylist. There’s clearly a mastery to that. Maybe I’ll open a giant snack store. Don’t want to be a sushi platter…but I might be a wonton origamist. Somehow, I have to find a gig that let’s me mmmmmmmmm my way around the world… For now, maybe I’ll … Read more