What would the world be like if God were president? Local inspirational speaker and spiritual psychotherapist Lisa Venable answers that question in her first book, God for President: A Parable About the Power of Love. When disillusioned activist Sarah Rose retreats from Washington to her Minnesota hometown, she begins to wonder exactly what would happen … Read more
Mira James, heroine and amateur sleuth of the Murder by Month mystery series, returns in local author Jess Lourey’s newest work August Moon. This fourth installment of the series finds Mira about to leave adopted home Battle Lake, Minnesota for good — until a high school cheerleader is murdered. The act is soon linked to … Read more
A murder in a south Florida retirement community would seem to be an event that is definitely out-of-the-ordinary. Add in a blind heiress loved by the town’s only cop, a former slasher film queen who runs a raucous Bar & Grill for the under-65, and a trio of Swedish circusfolk, and you’ve got yourself a … Read more
Thanks for taking the time to talk to The Rake. I throughly enjoyed the film. How did you get into film, particularly documentary film making? Well, it’s interesting, I didn’t ever want to make a documentary, but my brothers and I had been talking about the whole steroid issue, and I was already a filmmaker … Read more
SPECIAL EVENTA Toast to Tesla No, not the hair band from the late ’80s, although I do happen to know a few people who would probably be into that. Tonight’s event at the Bakken is dedicated to one of America’s greatest electrical engineers, Nikola Tesla, inventor of the radio. Sample complimentary appetizers and wines from … Read more
(AFP/Nicholas Kamm) Game #2, NBA Finals: Los Angeles 102, Boston 108 Series to Date: Boston up 2-0 1. No D in Los Angeles Lakers After watching the last 2 and a half quarters live and then the entire game on tape, I’ve got to say that for all my babble about the superiority of the … Read more
Steadily as the American dollar, the value of informed opinions is decreasing. As information becomes ever more accessible and democratized, thanks to the likes of Google and Wikipedia and Things White People Like, the necessity for critics — previously our cultural gatekeepers — seems to be vanishing. Whether it’s food, music, or movies, the corresponding … Read more
All praise be to the cyclopean gods of old for finally bringing the nigh interminable local and national Democratic nomination process to a close. For while sentences involving Andy Rooney, sodomy and bestiality, not to mention flag lapel pins and innuendo involving sniper fire, roll comfortably off the tongue of B-grade actors on late-night Cinemax, … Read more
Jason Shannon likes to think of his band as a car. "A car Steve McQueen drove," he says. "An old ’60s or ’70s hot rod. Not a badass car. Just a car with good integrity. Something that’s built to last, but not showing itself off. A Classic. "Something like that," he laughs. The car metaphor … Read more
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