Last night I ate at Mission American Kitchen with a bunch of friends/business people. We were an odd lot. One end of the table was heavy with work conversation and Blackberry buzzing, the other end, my end, was thick with laughter, The Macallan, and housemade potato chips. Our server handled it perfectly. He worked his … Read more
Holy Moses, this Liriano kid looks like he might be for real. I’m going to be out of commission for a stretch, and I intend to spend some time during this hiatus trying to uncover another team in recent (or ancient memory) that had two such dominant lefties in its rotation. Ordinarily a handful of … Read more
It’s been a skimpy week in terms of blogging, what with our production cycle being at its very peek during this–oh-the-terror–“production week.” For that I apologize. I’ve been busy hunting for phantom commas, along with all the other unglamorous schtuff that’s necessary when putting together a magazine. But I have vowed to pull myself away … Read more
Note that ye former Minnesota Monthly food writer, Ann Bauer, is giving a reading of her book, A Wild Ride up the Cupboards, at The Bookcase of Wayzata tonight.
For the last several weeks I’d been staring at decidedly long odds and almost liking what I saw. The math didn’t look very good, but it was starting to look like there was at least a possibility that it actually might eventually add up. The Twins had played an unreal stretch of baseball. The pitching … Read more
By the time I got to the River Park, Jurosz was gone. An hour or so earlier I’d encountered a couple of tweaked out ranch hands at the Taco John’s in town, with Jurosz’s beat-to-shit little trailer attached to the hitch of a pick-up truck. There was no mistaking the trailer, with its corroded aluminum … Read more
Sullivan’s Travels, 1941. Directed and written by the inimitable Preston Sturges. Starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake (who’s on the take), the great curmudgeon William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Robert Greig, Eric Blore, Porter Hall, Charles R. Moore, and Jimmy Conlin. Playing in Loring Park with Sengalese band Daara J; part of the Walker’s Summer Music and … Read more
This weekend has been the winter of summer. Whether it’s 60 below or 100 above, it’s all about coping. Because the majority of people in my house are under the age of 16, coping comes only with my help: I’m bored, it’s too hot to go out, there’s nothing on tv, I’m too sticky to … Read more
The very popular and consequently very fun Summer Music & Movies in the park event kicks-off tonight with a multi-multi rapper and a vintage flick about poverty. Trust me, it’s better than it sounds. Your truly will definitely be there.
A horse emerged from the woods, sleepwalking through the fog, its eyes literally closed. The hooves of the sleepwalking horse were long and yellow and curled like the toes of elf shoes. There was lightning in the blue windows of a treehouse, where scientists were hunched in the dark over their secrets, boiling the world … Read more