(This the car from its most umistakable angle. It looks even more like a nameless Japanese car from the rear and side.) The Pax Britannica that led to a relatively peaceful 1800s (unless you were Irish) was imposed primarily by the glorious Royal Navy. While it is politic to assert this prestige came from good … Read more
The introduction to this week’s Poem Worth Reading is taken from Bart Schneider’s forthcoming novel, the highly Minneapolized The Man in the Blizzard: "Sometimes I wonder why Americans are as afraid of poetry as they are of al-Qaeda. Screw the ones who’ve decided that poetry’s an effete enterprise. Let ‘em party with the homophobes. It’s … Read more
(AP Photo/Winslow Townson) Los Angeles 88, Boston 98 Series thus far: Boston 1-0 1. The Buck Stops With Pierce I firmly believe that Boston’s postseason prospects took a dramatic leap forward when Paul Pierce went off for a monster performance in Game 7 of the Eastern semis versus Cleveland. Up to that point, the Celtics … Read more
In an attempt to one-up United Health for most ridiculous Minnesota-based health insurance company, HealthPartners (relatively) recently announced its new Mascot, Petey P. Cup. He’s a giant urine specimen container with arms, legs, feelings, and no shame. Since then I’ve learned quite a bit about Petey P. Cup and his sidekick Pokey the Syringe. Here … Read more
A little taste of the Midtown Global Market will be making an appearance on the Nicollet Mall this Saturday night, as the Minneapolis Mosaic kicks off a summer of multi-cultural arts and entertainment. Manny’s Tortas, La Loma Tamales, Pham’s Deli and Holy Land Grocery and Deli will all have stands on the Nicollet Mall, selling … Read more
SPECIAL EVENTDigital Crush Website Launch Party And now for a bit of shameless self promotion! In addition to being The Rake’s new A&E editor, I am also involved in a number of artsy side projects — one being cheeky photography collective Digital Crush. Well-known in the Twin Cities for our fun and candid event photos, … Read more
Remember the prom mom? She was 18, it was her prom and nobody knew she was pregnant, so she went to the bathroom, hiked up her dress, had the kid, stuffed him in a trash can, and went back to the dance floor a half hour later. Stuck, directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Mena … Read more
Anyone who has watched the two NBA conferences from November to April this season, and then watched the respective conference matchups in the postseason, would be hard-pressed to deny that the Lakers should be favored in the final series that begins this evening in Boston. But let’s begin by being counter-intuitive and considering the reasons–the … Read more
I recently sat down to speak with Douglas Fogle–the curator of the 2008 Carnegie International–in his office at the Carnegie Museum of Art. It was a fine, bright spring day about one month into the run of the latest version of the great survey exhibition of international artists that was first mounted in 1896, and … Read more
America is awesome. Remember in Independence Day when it turned out the president was an ex-fighter pilot? Or in Armageddon when we discovered that most of our problems can be solved by huge men with rippling muscles? We used to live in the era of the superlative, when people like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hulk Hogan, and … Read more