Readers may remember City Pages gushing back in March about a chicken wing pop-up hosted by Soul Bowl’s dynamic duo, Gerard and Brittney Klass. For bird lovers, their B.A.D Wingz experiment had it all: the sort of variety, hospitality, and energy that wingnuts felt were sorely lacking in this village. The only drawback? That initial …
Compare that to 48 homicides all of last year, or the 33 in 2018, 35 in 2017, and 37 in 2016. Gun violence, along with substandard healthcare and layoffs under COVID-19, has hit the Black community particularly hard. On August 24, Patrick Henry high schooler Serenity Shief was killed with a gunshot to the head. …
The Lake Superior port city had a dangerous week, by its standards, with “five separate incidents where shots were fired,” according to Duluth Police Department Chief Mike Tusken. One such incident landed two people in the hospital with injuries, and one “resulted in the arrest of two suspects and the recovery of a stolen firearm.” …
Adia Victoria – “South Gotta Change” The brilliant Nashville-based blueswoman stakes a claim to her region and demands, over a track produced to an eerie and defiant pitch by T Bone Burnett, an overdue transformation. If you haven’t checked out her great 2019 album Silences, which I’ve raved about here plenty, I’ll encourage you just …
Fox 9 dispatched reporter Hannah Flood to the street to cover the night’s events. Flood, native to this state and a graduate of the University of Minnesota, has been with the station for just over a year, and has dived into assignments complicated by race, especially recently. This summer, she’s covered Juneteenth celebrations and plans …
When the store closes, their trademarked Izzy’s Scoops – bonus opportunities to mix and match flavors, expand your palate, or force/prove there’s always room for ice cream– will become a thing of the past. Back in April, the original Izzy’s Ice Cream parlor in St. Paul announced its twenty-year run had come to an end. Only …
His name is Jack Tomczak. You may remember him from the annals of angry white guy radio, before he departed abruptly from KTLK’s “Up and at ‘Em” morning show in 2016. His cohost, Andrew Lee, apologized to their audience but remained mum about the reason. After that, Tomczak was a co-host on the Up and At ‘Em …
Officers were handling the call until they “observe a large amount of suspected marijuana,” and they decided to get the sheriff’s office in on this. After the Southwest Hennepin Drug Task Force arrived, with a search warrant in hand, officers seized what turned out to be a trove. There were 6,600 doses’ worth of edibles, …
FRIDAY: Virtual stuff to do: 2020 MCAD Faculty Biennial Online show featuring virtual presentations of the art and research undertaken by full and part-time faculty, with online viewing and participatory activities. More info at mcad.edu. Aug. 28-Oct. 28; free. Minnesota State Fair Virtual At-Home Edition Featuring daily fun fair facts, memories, demonstrations and entertainment, history tidbits, …
Pay and benefits were never ideal at the Twin Cities coffee chain’s six locations, they report, but then COVID-19 hit, revealing a level of disconnect with ownership many viewed as untenable. Community blowback sparked by a leaked, racially insensitive email from ownership further damaged morale. “A lot of us got fed up and started talking to …