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Plus Demuth and Chauvin, the P-AI-oneer Press, and a very special newspaper column in today's Flyover news roundup.
This week's music calendar is extra spoooOOOoooky. Also: That Texas lady is here.
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we get literally THE best pitches from contributors. case in point:
St. Paul has the MN Transportation Museum's Jackson Street Roundhouse for big trains and the TC Model Railroad Museum for little ones. Mpls has the Hennepin Overland Railway Historical Society for trains on a mission and the Minnesota Streetcar Museum, which you can ride.
It’s cliché to call the Boundary Waters a refuge, but it certainly was mine when I was a kid.
It's a celeb local-angle extravaganza in today's Flyover news roundup.
Plus Rhiannon Giddens, Charlie Parr, and last call for ongoing spoooOOoooky events.
Seeking ghosts and good times as Halloween fever grips Anoka, Minnesota.
If you brave the long lines or successfully navigate the cutthroat preordering system, here's what you should get. racketmn.com/bangkok-swee...
The filmmaker and author reflect on taking the short story from page to screen, and celebrate its anniversary this weekend with a screening at the Main. racketmn.com/sweet-land-a...
Is it possible to find a cheaper burger basket ANYWHERE? racketmn.com/best-budget-...
Will this light rail put us on the map like Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook? racketmn.com/a-very-early...
Two For Tripping wants to revitalize Dinkytown with breakfast and banana bread lattes. racketmn.com/did-you-know...
Meet the Venezuelan chef with some of the best Cuban food in south Minneapolis.
If you brave the long lines or successfully navigate the cutthroat preordering system, here's what you should get. racketmn.com/bangkok-swee...
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Your life decisions have been good, according to one NYT analysis.
Now more than perhaps ever before, it's Friday.
Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week. racketmn.com/on-the-big-s...
The filmmaker and author reflect on taking the short story from page to screen, and celebrate its anniversary this weekend with a screening at the Main. racketmn.com/sweet-land-a...
From this month last year...
Return to the days when the hated immigrants were... German.
Is it possible to find a cheaper burger basket ANYWHERE? racketmn.com/best-budget-...
Will this light rail put us on the map like Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook?
Listen to Racket contributor Patrick Strait talk about trying out for the Timberwolves (awoooo, 31-minute mark) on 92 KQRS:
A way-too-early, station-by-station review of the extremely postponed light-rail adventure into the SW 'burbs.
Is it enough to bring folks from elsewhere in Minneapolis to the neighborhood? Well… it’s no Kitty Cat Klub. But then, what is? racketmn.com/did-you-know...
It sold last month for $100K, per county records.
Plus data centers still suck, MN stays swampy, and a fire at Resource Mpls in today's Flyover news roundup.
Oh dang, there's too much happening on Saturday night:
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“I would not give a restaurant with this set of stairs that name,” I thought, climbing up the winding staircase that leads to Two for Tripping.