Month: June 2008

  • Snacking and Grazing the Mill City Farmers Market

    Yesterday was my first visit of the season to the Mill City Farmers Market, and I was pleasantly surprised by how many new stands there were selling locally produced prepared foods – apparently Brenda Langton, who was one of the founders of the market, and who owns the Spoonriver Restaurant next door, doesn’t mind the…

  • Breaking Down The Blockbuster Trade With Memphis

    Joe Murphy/NBAE/Getty Images Let’s start this with the big fat cavaet that I rarely watch, and am certainly not very well versed about, college basketball. And since two of the key principals in the eight-player swap that the Timberwolves and Grizzlies pulled off in the middle of the night Thursday/Friday are high-caliber college players, I…

  • Loud and Proud: Twin Cities Pride Weekend Is Here!

    FESTIVALSPride Weekend Spotlight: LOW LIFE MinneapolisAs part of the all-city-consuming extravaganza that is this year’s Pride Weekend, hip (and delicious) Loring hot spot Nick and Eddie jumps on the bandwagon for their first year open during the Festival. Calling in favors from their hipper-than-thou friends in New York to rock the alley behind the restaurant,…

  • The Virgins Have a Sweet but Short-Lived Impact

    As part of the Nylon’s Magazine Tour, The Virgins performed at the Fine Line Music Café on Friday the 13th. Also hitting the stage that night were She Wants Revenge, Be Your Own Pet, and Switches. The probably-not-so Virgins, with their ‘60s vintage style, charming boy-next-door looks, and charisma, hit the stage with hits like…

  • Highlights from Aspen

    Instead of giving you the day-by day-reports of Melly in Aspen, here are a few of the highlights. Swiller decided that we all should get a little high from mother earth, and we did — a super cold, wet, and intense high, care of Blazing Adventures. After the 45-minute bus ride, in which we made…

  • United Noodle Deli to Expand

    One of my favorite little lunch spots is the Chinese deli hidden away inside United Noodles, the oriental market hidden away inside the Seward neighborhood in south Minneapolis. There are only five tables, and no table service – you order at the counter, and bus your own dishes when you’re done. The menu is very…