For starters, be sure to check out photographer Nicholas Marshall’s Voltage 2008: Fashion Amplified Preview. After that, you might be ready to do a little shopping of your own. SHOPPING & STYLEAlexis Hudson Trunk Show Stop by StyledLife today for the first Twin Cities Alexis Hudson trunk show. "Alexis Hudson is the hottest up-and-coming handbag … Read more
Publisher Kristin Henning: Hang Up and Drive. Chief Operating Officer Matt Bartel: Editor Cristina Córdova: Good thing I brought my library card, ’cause I’m checking you out. Calendar Editor Jennifer Havrish: Baby Jesus cries every time you don’t use your turn signal. Advertising Director A.J. Kiefer: In case of rapture… I have dibs on your … Read more
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Passive aggressive and dependent on others of their own kind, box elder bugs create havoc and annoyance when swarming in groups. Todd Sklar, a triple threat in the filmmaking business, wrote, directed, and starred in the coming of age tale, Box Elder. With a shoestring budget and 18 days of shooting, Box Elder is a … Read more
BOOKS & AUTHORSChat It Up: Young Adult Literature With the Minnesota Book Awards right around the corner, you’ll have several opportunities this week to meet some of the finalists. Tonight, our very own Tom Bartel will be hosting a Chat It Up event featuring Young Adult Literature author Patrick Jones. Jones’s book Chasing Tail Lights … Read more
Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by Kent Smith/NBAE via Getty Images) Game #77, Road Game #38: Minnesota 119, Charlotte 121 Season Record: 19-58 1. Plenty of Blame To Go Around Coach Randy Wittman thought the Minnesota Timberwolves came to play without passion or commitment tonight on the road against Charlotte, and he was spot-on. I wasn’t … Read more
I was a street artist. If you prefer, I was a vandal. I started out, as most artists do, humbly. A can of russet Rustoleum with a couple of friends, scrawling vague leftist slogans on the abandoned railroad factory buildings in my hometown. Alleyway dumpsters and streetlit governmental properties were my first canvases. Then came … Read more
The status quo is almost always a warm, comforting feeling. No matter how often people complain about Minnesota’s interminable winters, or Cyndy Brucato’s mummy-like visage staring soullessly from KSTP evening newscasts, eternally hungering for the blood of Amy Hockert, they would still be profoundly disturbed these constants were suddenly stripped from their lives. This is … Read more
The antithesis of Milwaukee Avenue—the Seward neighborhood’s secret boulevard of late 19th century homes—is the Cedars 94 apartment complex, located just across from Milwaukee on Franklin’s north side. Where Milwaukee Avenue has dozens of brick homes with low front porches and gingerbread gables, the apartments have faded wooden shingles and a chain-link security fence. Where … Read more
This month I went to various locales, frantically searching for The Rake, which I could not find. It is the best publication I have seen around here for a long time. I am quite addicted to it and begin to look for it at the end of each month. A teenager told me that you … Read more