For the last 40-plus years we’ve been the Twin Cities’ alternative voice, covering music and arts and culture and also doing deeply reported features and investigative pieces. What else is there to say? We’re sad as fuck. CP, born Sweet Potato, has employed hundreds of people over the last four ...
The presidential election is about a week away. Are you scared yet? Let’s pass the time with something less terrifying: Halloween. Also this week? Mia’s “Foot in the Door” is back after 10 years. Twin Cities Horror Fest Now in its ninth year, the Twin Cities Horror Festival has grown exponentially in ...
I’ve been in a relationship with a wonderful guy for the past year. The only problem is that he works with a girl he used to fuck. It wasn’t just sex—they would go on dates and even went on vacation together. He kept this little “detail” to himself for six full months before giving himself away by ...
Look. It’s not going to be a normal Halloween. It may not even be a very good one. But do you know what is very good? This exquisitely awkward Halloween photo featuring the Minnesota Orchestra and violist Sam Bergman. It's not that the costume itself was so brilliant, it was more that NO ONE ELSE WORE ONE ...
On Monday, a wilderness explorer took to Reddit because they had a bit of a stumper on their hands. They'd seen this little furry tree-dwelling animal in late September at Bear Head Lake State Park, up in the northeastern corner of the state. It’s very cute – fluffy, almost foxy-looking, with a thick, ...
Lots of places have closed since COVID-19 arrived in Minnesota... but a frankly shocking number of new spots have opened, too. (And more are getting announced all the time!) From takeout tacos to walk-up window chicken tenders to michelada buckets, here are 31 newbies to try. (If you're wondering why anyone ...
I. The Omen Even in a “normal” year, the days just before a restaurant opens are among the most stressful. For Eric Foster, that was early and mid-March. He was readying to open East Side Bar, the reincarnation of the much-loved Ward 6 in St. Paul. After about a year of planning, they’d finally gotten ...
How many 47-year-old rappers can you say are rhyming better than ever? Theoretically, rap is a craft that an MC can hone over the course of a lifetime. In practice, different skills are celebrated in different eras, and what sounds exhilarating one moment soon becomes mockably dated. This can have as much to ...
A couple months ago, when Greg Hoyt, owner of Rustica Bakery, announced a quasi-merger with Rose Street Patisserie’s Bread Lab, run by internationally acclaimed peer John Kraus, it felt like a savvy move after a long, precarious summer for folks in food and drink. Citing ovens on the brink, Hoyt said that ...
Voting this year is stressful enough, without wondering if a bunch of armed ex-military types are going to be hanging around your polling place. Until last week, that seemed like a possibility for Minnesotans, thanks to Altas Aegis, a Tennessee-based security firm run by U.S. military veterans. A couple of ...
