In about a week, Macalester College will open another football season with a match against Beloit College. Macalester’s club has averaged about one win per year since 1989. The team won just one game last year, had three winless seasons in the 90s, and ended last season with only 29 players. (Most of Mac’s competitors … Read more
The curiosity in Father Hennepin Bluff Park, across the Stone Arch Bridge from downtown Minneapolis, is a gravesite. A shrine to a fallen friend. Tucked into the gutted remains of a stump, not far from a con-temporary bandshell, there is a flat headstone in the shape of a Superman crest. Thick, black magic-marker in an … Read more
Kati and Steve were standing at the foot of a fallen tree, its roots casting spiraled shadows onto the beach. Its trunk stretched a few yards out into the lake before disappearing under the surface. According to their global positioning system, the coordinates of the hidden treasure would put them 20 yards further into the … Read more
Wow. In one article, Jon Zurn manages to put the lid on and pound the nails into the coffin for the Twin Cities arts scene [“State of the Arts,” September]. “Small collectors are an endangered species”… “visual arts coverage in the local press has been little more than an afterthought.” I’m sorry Jon, but where … Read more
I graduated from St. Thomas Academy in 1984, and while I appreciate Tom Bartel’s observations on the benefits of private schools [“Is Private School Right for You?”, August], I cannot get past the fact that for four years I wasted my time taking mandatory and contradictory religion and military classes in which the primary goal … Read more
It would be nice to believe that a pajama party could be enough to ground airplanes. But we know now that silence in the skies comes at a terrible price. Last year, on a crisp blue-bird day, the planes stopped. The sky over Lake Harriet and Lake Nokomis was silent the way it hasn’t been … Read more
Alas: the pitter-pat of shuffling feet on the stair that Martha Stewart hears each day when she awakes is not the stirring of guests invited for a festive country weekend; it’s the SEC closing in. Last month ImClone boss and “family friend” Sam Waksal (her daughter’s boyfriend, later her own) took his perp walk for … Read more
If you have difficulty making decisions, the Sample Room wants you. As the name implies, this brand-new, swank café bar is centered around sharable, nibbleworthy combination platters—3,500 possible combinations of veggie, meat, cheese, and seafood treats. That goes for wine too: Try a number of vintages with a flight of three 2-oz. glasses. Our entrees … Read more
“Greek food is arousing,” declared one of my table companions after a big bite of his spicy soutzokakia sandwich. The rest of us raised our eyebrows and waited for him to explain. He chose instead to blush and mumble that he “just meant intriguing.” But he’s right. All that garlic and olive oil, lemony ambelodolmades … Read more
Maybe this will be the year when you make that extra effort to actually find the art at the Uptown Art Festival. Sure, there are food booths, live music, games, and the general hubbub of another summer festival. And who can deny the cheap thrill of wandering around the middle of Lake Street slightly buzzed, … Read more