Since he lost his job as an aviation mechanic in the late 1980s, Riggs has been a clerk at the International Repository of Regrets. He hasn’t had a good night’s sleep in almost ten years. The Repository, housed in a World War Two-era train depot, is a vast place of bad light and spooky, institutional … Read more
What is with all these twenty-four hour, speedy art projects? By this, I am referring to such things as the 24-Hour Play Project, even this, the “24-Hour Collaboration,” a slumber party involving several University of Minnesota composers, most of whom live in the same ramshackle in south Minneapolis. It’s not that I oppose the application … Read more
the spork carries no shame No disrespect to the fabulous AZ, but he isn’t the original Chowhound. For those of us with a driving desire to scour the cities of the world in search of the best grimy taco stand, Jim Leff is our Top Dog. He’s the food writer who created Chowhound, a community … Read more
By the way, there’s a free Fringe Festival preview tonight at Theatre de la Jeune Lune–thirty playlets done in tasty, three-minute bites. Ah, how I love the Fringe for all its quirky, lo-fi virtues. But do you know what I love the most about it? Those campy, most often amateur photographs the Fringe performers put … Read more
The Hidden Ball trick (from the fabulous Retrosheet), via The Hardball Times. Check out Frank Crosetti’s impressive run from 1936 to 1940. The Twins, by the way, have been victimized three times.
Gina L: A chassis shape we can appreciate It occured to me yesterday while reading a vapid article on the merits of “Post Modern Girlfriend” (I don’t believe it was in The Rake, but alas I myself suffer from vapidity often.) why I hate many recent BMWs. I have always understood “post modern thought” to … Read more
The big news this weekend is the Guthrie opening, of course. And I’ll be there. I won’t elaborate too much on how I feel about that (uh, excited), considering that there are many other things going on this weekend, and in some instances they won’t involve such logjam traffic. There’s Twin Cities Pride, for example. … Read more
I sometimes miss my chance to support the local-food-movement, mainly because many Saturday mornings come at the expense of Friday night revelry and not even the promise of a breakfast brat could lure me to the market. With the opening of Golden Fig & River Chocolate Company Fine Foods on Grand Ave. in St. Paul, … Read more
Ready. Aim… A big whoop engendered yesterday by the Growth and Justice gang’s ad in the Strib yesterday indicating the willingness of 200 upper income Minnesotans to pay more tax to fund education, transportation and health care got the expected response from Tim “I answer only to David Strom” Pawlenty: “If those people want to … Read more
For those of you who cherish your brain cells, the moguls in Hollywood have chosen to cut us a break this weekend, leaving the big-budget extravaganzas alone, and giving us… well, virtually nothing. There’s a lot of movies around town, but I think your best bet’s at the Walker Art Center. If it were me, … Read more