It was like this. It was this way. Here was the way it was. This is how things stood: Silently. Still. At attention. That was one moment and unfortunately this world is all about one moment to another. In the next moment everything was swirling and it was as if I was a plastic man … Read more
I have never fully grasped the term “waiting out the storm.” I can understand doing so during mountaineering expeditions, but not neccessarily during a blizzard in the urban jungle. Not when there are great cars that can plow through snow faster than Tony Montana without blowing a kingpin’s fortune. All it takes is knowledge of … Read more
After picking their jaws up from the floor, staffs at both the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press began analyzing and contemplating what Par Ridder leaving the latter to publish the former really means. Ridder is the 38 year-old scion of the once renown newspaper family. A family whose dance with Wall St. devils proved fatal, … Read more
This weekend, I went to DIVA MN–which was quite fun, in part due to the attentions (or maybe it was just ass kissing) I received from a male model. I meant to bring my camera so that I could share with you the takes, but alas, it was forgotten at home. And then yesterday afternoon … Read more
Game #58, Home Game #30: Utah 106, Minnesota 83 Game #59, Road Game #29: Boston 124, Minnesota 117 (2 OT) What’s the Plan: Buck Up? Draw Straws? Haze the Rookies? The past week has taught us that the Wolves can be casually blown out by a quality NBA team, with consecutive 26-point losses to Dallas … Read more
Having made a point — an “appointment” — to watch all but one episode of the highly-anticipated and now by all appearances canceled “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” I am not the least bit surprised it got whacked. And I am not engaging in schadenfreude. I was genuinely eager for another Aaron Sorkin series, … Read more
Zodiac, 2007. Directed by David Fincher, written by James Vanderbilt. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Chloe Sevigny, Dermot Mulroney, Philip Baker Hall and Elias Koteas. Now showing in theaters around town. There’s a scene early on in David Fincher’s masterful Zodiac, in which we see … Read more
For the brave among us: The Exonerated, an anti-death penalty plays, opens this evening at Mixed Blood and Mark Mothersbaugh: Postcard Diaries (i.e., art from the frontman of Devo–yes, we’ve covered this endeavor of his before) opens at Creative Electric Studios.
With only five days to go before the McClatchy newspaper corporation flips the keys to its’ once flagship property, the Star Tribune, to the Avista immediate-return-on-investment corporation, a terrible virus has infected the newspaper’s connections to the internet. Something wormed into the Strib system Wednesday cutting off access to the net, and by Thursday it … Read more
This weekend, Deb Girdwood and Isabelle Harder’s throwing a little movie party at the Central Library downtown. Deb and Isabelle could be called the Queen of Children’s Films in the Twin Cities, responsible for the Childish Film Fest at the forthcoming Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Harder believes, quite rightly, that there’s a dearth of … Read more