Dig through your family collections, ladies and gentlemen. Pull the best dish from your repertoire and steel your nerves. You, yes you Betty Lou, could win fame and acclaim in the Great Mill City Farmers Market Taste-Off! I know you are hiding a killer dish of some sort (scalloped potatoes? creamed corn? broasted chicken? Granny’s … Read more
We’re putting the finishing touches on the October issue today and tomorrow, and so I won’t be able to sneak over to Peazey Plaza for the Minnesota Orchestra’s free, lunchtime concert. (But I’ll likely catch the replay this Sunday at Lake Harriet.) Nor will I make it to Lee’s tonight to see The Derailers. (Ah, … Read more
According to the Washington Post today, the U.S. Marine officer in charge of military intelligence in Iraq thinks we’ve already lost a substantial chunk of the country. Think about why we’d “stay the course” when the course is a path to defeat. It’s not called Cut and Run. It’s called Cut Your Losses.
How is it that you firsted respond to Herman Hesse’s book, Siddhartha? For me, I was in about my sophomore or junior year of college when I read the thing, and I found it absolutely riveting. And so I took my color-coded highlighters to it as a Pentecostal would her bible. In particular, I remember … Read more
A bee got into my bonnet the other day, and I started thinking about my favorite songs about the movie industry. Not songs from movies–those are a different beast altogether. And then there’s the songs that were used in movies that are now joined at the hip: “In Dreams” by Roy Orbison will forever be … Read more
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention today’s five-year anniversary of the September 11 catastrophe. There are, of course, all kinds of memorial concerts going on this evening–at Landmark Center and at the Harriet Bandshell, to name just a couple. But Emigrant Theater is commemorating the event in an interesting way; they’re doing a series … Read more
This is pretty. I didn’t bake this, no sir. This weekend, the weather was perfect for eating. It was chilly enough to inspire a stoking of the stove and grey enough to keep me happily inside without guilt. Seriously, I cooked all weekend. Saturday the kids and I spent most of the day conspiring how … Read more
–Image copyright Karel Cudlin What am I? What shall I do? What can I believe and hope for? Everything in philosophy can be reduced to this. –Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms As long and as far as they can stare into their magic spyglasses they strive to glimpse ever deeper into the star clutter, those little … Read more
Two Things I Love 1. The nasty, grungy, dank, gossipy side of the restaurant industry. (Remember, while the rest of the world plays, we work. Then, while the rest of the world sleeps, we drink a lot and smoke a lot and dish.) 2. A crack in the facade of a food icon.
It’s all laughs all the time this weekend, or at least it should be that way until Sunday. And I’ll need it after last night’s trip to The Guthrie, where I saw The Real Thing. Now, don’t get me wrong; it’s a good play and all… and a very talky play with a certain amount … Read more