Here is a comment from reader Dave on yesterday’s post about blogs leading the mainstream press to the US Attorney’s story … “Brian I agree with you that stories are missed by the mainstream press and also agree that this is a worthwhile topic for discussion. But you owe your readers a small disclosure on … Read more
It has been called to my attention that another baseball season is almost upon us and it has been more than five months since I updated this site. Shame on me. Shame, shame, shame on me. Here I am, though, and here I will be –I swear on the Baseball Encyclopedia— on a regular basis … Read more
There is nothing–I repeat, nothing!–more intriguing cinematically this weekend than the selection of children’s films at the Central Library. Oh, you can check out the movies you should have seen over the past few weeks, or haul your child to see Terabithia, which, for my money, ought to have left that mysterious book alone (and … Read more
Tonight: Orchestra Hall, Peer Gynt, with performance enhancements provided by a troupe of physical theater-types. Rumor has it that the gray hairs have been complaining about all the “raunchy” material. But it’s Peer Gynt, so what do they expect?
Eric Alterman offers a valuable, and as far as I can tell, entirely accurate timeline of reporting on the U.S. Attorneys scandal. His essential point being that this fascinating episode of ham-fisted politicizing would have been ignored, as so many other stories have been, were it not for REPORTING work done by prominent blogs, principally … Read more
In the remarkable mini-series Band of Brothers, the story of one company of the 101st Airborne Division in World War II, episode nine is titled “Why We Fight”. The episode is about how the company discovered a German concentration camp. If it hadn’t been clear up to that point why the Americans were fighting the … Read more
Tonight I’m catching Frank Theater‘s anti-death penalty play The Exonerated, and at the tail-end of its run. Cards on the table: If there’s any residue of my lapsed Catholicism it’s my unequivocal opposition to the death penalty. And I’ve been active on this front, if only as a consumer of art. A few years back … Read more
The headline says it all. The Twin Cities’ omnipresent food guru is a freakin’ master of self-promotion.
I am certain there will be more than a couple “clarifications” regarding this morning’s announcement on voluntary buyouts.. Among the first: Star Tribune Guild reps say sports writer Steve Aschburner will stay on past Friday until the end of the current Timberwolves season. (As one crank has already posted on this blog’s “comments” section, “Hasn’t … Read more