Email Author Erin Carlyle

Awards

• 2011 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published February 17, 2010

  "Fallen Angel"

• 2011 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published December 8, 2010

  "The Opposite of Wild"

• 2011 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published February 17, 2010

  "Fallen Angel"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published October 28, 2009

  "The Perks of Office"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published October 7, 2009

  "Lisa Knows Best"

• 2010 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published December 23, 2009

  "Favre at Forty"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 3, 2009

  "Saving Juju"

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2011 Stories by Erin Carlyle

• Christopher Tarell Clark arrested for murder of Darrell M. Fisher

  published Jul 13, 2011

  Police have arrested 19-year-old Christopher Tarrell Clark on suspicion that he killed a man in north Minneapolis last month. When Minneapolis cops arrived in the 2700 block of Humboldt Avenue North... More >>

• Michele Bachmann "white baby" quote is fake

  published Jul 12, 2011

  Michele Bachmann raised eyebrows last week with her comment blaming President Barack Obama for the Casey Anthony verdict. "Well, I've been visiting all the primary states, and I've been talking to p... More >>

• Big Joe Gustafson arrested

  published Jul 07, 2011

  Big Joe Gustafson, the former Hell's Angel who ran a north Minneapolis crime ring for years, has just been thrown in jail. Gustafson turned himself in to Hennepin County Jail at 11:05 p.m. last night... More >>

• Buffalo Wild Wings stock jumps to all-time high

  published Jul 07, 2011

  Buffalo Wild Wings has started the summer off with some spicy-hot profits: shares of the company are at an all-time high. The stock hit a share price of $68.38 two days ago, more than 50 percent up f... More >>

• Seven people killed in 4th of July weekend accidents

  published Jul 05, 2011

  Minnesota State Troopers were out 600-strong--every single one of them--on the highways on Maroon Day (Thursday, June 30)--traditionally the deadliest traffic day of the year. They pulled over 2,502 p... More >>

• Sean Matti, former Roseville football star, pulled dead from Indiana lake

  published Jul 05, 2011

  Sean Matti, the Purdue college student and former Roseville Area High School football star missing in Indiana, has been found dead this morning. He was 22. Authorities pulled Matti's body from Lake F... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Laugh yoga practitioners guffaw their way to good health

  published July 6, 2011

  In an open churchyard in south Minneapolis, a group of grown men and women are pretending to be airplanes. They buzz past one... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Joe Gustafson Sr., charged with seven felonies, is on the lam

  published Jun 30, 2011

  Joseph "Big Joe" Gustafson, a former Hell's Angel-turned bail bondsman who terrorized north Minneapolis for years, has been charged with seven felonies -- and he's on the run. Authorities aren't sayi... More >>

• G.R. Anderson on Rolling Stone's Bachmann piece: "I do want credit where credit is due"

  published Jun 24, 2011

  Matt Taibbi's piece on Michele Bachmann in Rolling Stone this week borrows liberally from a 2006 cover story by former City Pages reporter G.R. Anderson Jr. So much so that Abe Sauer of the Awl calle... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Buffalo Wild Wings offers free wings if you "like" NFL lockout petition on FB

  published Jun 23, 2011

  Buffalo Wild Wings has stepped things up a notch in its attempt to get this year's football season back on track: The Minnesota-grown company is offering six free wings to anyone who likes its petitio... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Best Buy claims copyright on the word "geek"

  published Jun 21, 2011

  Best Buy has already taken over the technical support world with its Minnesota-grown Geek Squad. Now, the company is claiming that it owns the word "geek." The electronics chain recently sent a cease... More >>

• Republicans demand special session to deal with budget

  published Jun 20, 2011

  With just 10 days to go until a possible state government shutdown, top GOP leaders are asking Gov. Mark Dayton to call a special session to deal with the state's $5 billion budget deficit. House Sp... More >>

• Johnson & Johnson's Levaquin risks were known, jury decides

  published Jun 20, 2011

  A federal jury in Minneapolis has decided that the risks of a blockbuster drug made by Johnson & Johnson were well-established, directly contradicting a verdict another jury reached last fall. C... More >>

• Senate petitions court to join shutdown lawsuit, while courts sue to stay open

  published Jun 17, 2011

  GOP members of a Senate panel have passed a resolution authorizing the entire body to intervene in the lawsuit filed by Gov. Mark Dayton to keep essential services running in the case of a government ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Tim Pawlenty gets glittered in San Francisco [VIDEO]

  published Jun 16, 2011

  First Newt Gingrich, now T-Paw: the glitter rainbow is everywhere. Our former governor and current GOP presidential contender was signing books in San Francisco today at a conference on health care. ... More >>

• Robert Lee gropes medical assistants on Rochester-bound private jet

  published Jun 15, 2011

  Nevada millionaire Robert M. Lee, 83, is apparently the kind of guy who thinks his bags of money give him the right to be a major dirty old man. While flying on his private jet to Rochester for a doc... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Queer in the Twin Cities

  published June 15, 2011

  Next weekend, more than 100,000 people will watch a parade on Hennepin Avenue and raise high a universal symbol of gay liberation: the rainbow... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Landlords screw north Minneapolis tornado victims, but are also victims themselves

  published Jun 14, 2011

  It's been three weeks since the tornado devastated north Minneapolis--and many victims are still waiting for their landlords to make things right.... More >>

• Benjamin Bryan Newton ID'd as child killed at chiropractor: Memorial fund established

  published Jun 13, 2011

  The family of Benjamin Bryan Newton, the little boy killed last week as the result of a tragic accident at a Shoreview chiropractor's office, has set up a memorial fund. Donations will help pay for ... More >>

• Toddler dies under Shoreview chiropractor's table

  published Jun 10, 2011

  This is just awful. An 18-month-old boy died yesterday as a result of a tragic accident in a chiropractor's office while his mother lay strapped to a table, unable to save her son. The boy crawled u... More >>

• Quincy Antwain Blue is the charred body found in St. Paul

  published Jun 09, 2011

  Police have identified the man found charred beyond recognition in a St. Paul alley Wednesday morning as 30-year-old Quincy Antwain Blue. Blue was involved in Minneapolis music as a rapper, original... More >>

• Charred body found in St. Paul alley by little boy

  published Jun 08, 2011

  A little boy stumbled across a horrifically charred body in a St. Paul alley this morning. We don't have much information about the bizarre scene yet, but St. Paul police said that a three-year-old ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Adam Turman's "Save Second Base" t-shirts: Sexist slogan or harmless funr

  published Jun 07, 2011

  Popular Minneapolis poster designer Adam Turman's "Save Second Base" T-shirts are supposed to be all about fighting breast cancer. But this week, they sparked a Twitter war over whether they demean th... More >>

• Minneapolis tornado cleanup: No more volunteers needed

  published Jun 01, 2011

  Minneapolis put out a call for volunteers, and people answered fast. Two thousand people have signed up for Saturday's big cleanup, and now the city doesn't need anyone else. And don't bother showing... More >>

• Johnson & Johnson attorney says Levaquin risks were known

  published Jun 01, 2011

  Last week in our cover story, Achilles Heel, we wrote about a man whose Achilles tendon ruptured after he took the antibiotic Levaquin.Now, the drug makers are on trial in Minneapolis in federal court... More >>