In ancient Rome, handwritten copies of a daily gazette called the Acta Diurna were posted in prominent public locations to keep citizens informed on everything from military developments to the latest divorces—and you can bet which part was read most avidly. In colonial America, the New World’s first newspaper, published in 1690, made a splash … Read more
“Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question,” author and relationship guru Andrew Cohen said in a 1996 interview. Another American writer, Sam Martin, would update Cohen’s quote by tacking on an … Read more
Being brought up in a family with three doctors gives one an odd outlook on life. It was not just the anatomy textbooks, with their foggy monochrome photographs, that rubbed shoulders with the wildflower guides and J.B. Priestley novels in the family library. Nor was it only the medical advertisements that came in triplicate by … Read more
When I was a little girl with prairie-skirted ambitions to be Laura Ingalls Wilder, I once licked a tree. The darkening, wet stain on the bark of my backyard maple was too interesting to pass up. I knew that the sap wasn’t syrup, but I expected some sort of sensory recognition, some hint of taste … Read more
OMAB: Oh, my achin’ back BIMD: Back in my day NIMH: Not in my house WTD: What the devil? LOL: Lots of luck PTIYPASI: Put that in your pipe and smoke it TMWP: Take my wife, please. SAN: Stuff and nonsense IMHO: I may have over-imbibed TDTIR: Turn down that infernal racket! PMF: Pardon my … Read more
Brian Turner, Sean Bernard and John Cosgrove in some Irish Pub that they can’t remember anything about, except the bill was 150 euros when all was said and done. Author(s) and Location: Brian Turner, Sean Bernard and John Cosgrove
In our “Murder By Numbers” piece, we included three homicides by members of the Minneapolis Police Department. We then received a few phone calls from angry and/or curious readers who wanted to know why we’d done such a thing. Here’s the answer: We included them because they are part of the violence we described in … Read more
In your article about murder in Minneapolis, in the section with details of the crimes, I noticed that three people were arrested, for three different murders, who all had the last name “Bobo.” How about an investigative article, in the future, of the Bobo family, and their background? Are they from Minneapolis originally, or did … Read more
I really liked your article on the murders in Minneapolis 2006 [“Murder By Numbers,” March]. It brought tears to my eyes—a couple of those people I knew personally, and it took me back to July 16, 2004, when my youngest brother was murdered on those same Minneapolis streets! I am angry that the Minneapolis Police … Read more
Brian Lambert may have left key questions unasked in an investigative report into the writings of Katherine Kersten [“The One-Woman Solution,” February]. I would like to know if Kersten’s hiring and the pulling of advertising revenue to the Tribune from TCF Bank were connected. I would hope that a reporter with Lambert’s chops would be … Read more