Email Author Jessica Armbruster

2007 Stories by Jessica Armbruster

• Minnesotans Represent on Conan Tonight

  published Oct 19, 2007

  It's a Twin Cities bonanza tonight on The Conan O'Brien Show (NBC, 11:30 p.m.). Minnesota native (and rumored resident) Josh Hartnett will be pimping his vampire flick, 30 Days of Night, while local... More >>

• Trick, or Treatr

  published Oct 19, 2007

  Who doesn't want approximately $2.79 worth in candyr This is the logic behind KMart's new seasonal television/internet synergy campaign, which promises free bags of goodies. Last Wednesday the megacon... More >>

• Al Sicherman

  published October 17, 2007

  For those who have read the Star Tribune faithfully over the years, Al Sicherman is known for his columns on food, trivia, and humor, especially... More >>

• City Pages Iron Fork

  published October 17, 2007

  Second Harvest Heartland does good work. The largest hunger-relief program in the Upper Midwest, the group will this year collect and deliver more... More >>

• Jimmy Pardo

  published October 17, 2007

  Jimmy Pardo is reminiscent of the old-time comedians, though his material is very contemporary. "If you want to go back old-school," he explains,... More >>

• Nancy Horan

  published October 10, 2007

  Nancy Horan's debut work, Loving Frank, took approximately seven years to pen and a least one complete rewrite. Regardless, the seemingly... More >>

• Festival of India

  published October 10, 2007

  The Landmark Center does a pretty good job bringing culture from around the world to downtown St. Paul. Their Urban Expedition events are... More >>

• David Sedaris

  published October 10, 2007

  David Sedaris is perhaps as well-known for being an elf for "Santa" in a department store as he is for being a personality on This American... More >>

• Michael Perry

  published October 3, 2007

  They say that hope dies last. This is perhaps a statement that author, truck enthusiast, and optimist Michael Perry would agree with. In... More >>

• Michael Perry

  published October 3, 2007

  They say that hope dies last. This is perhaps a statement that author, truck enthusiast, and optimist Michael Perry would agree with. In... More >>

• Dirty Little Secrets

  published October 3, 2007

  As regular readers of Post Secret—a top-read blog where people send in colorful postcards in a rainbow of previously unspoken... More >>

• Michael Perry

  published October 3, 2007

  They say that hope dies last. This is perhaps a statement that author, truck enthusiast, and optimist Michael Perry would agree with. In... More >>

• Zombie Pub Crawl

  published October 3, 2007

  So, you've recently clawed your way out of the ground. You're a little dirty, a little stiff in gait, and you've got a Gatorade deep-down body... More >>

• The Natural History of Minnesota Wine

  published September 26, 2007

  When asked to name the locales that produce great wines, places like California, Australia, Spain, or France might spring to mind. But why not... More >>

• Kevin Kling

  published September 26, 2007

  As anyone who has listened to humorist Kevin Kling on NPR's All Things Considered will tell you, the man has a knack for making the mundane... More >>

• Get a Clue- Girls Rock the U Scavenger Hunt

  published September 26, 2007

  A jail, a pool, under a bridge—these are some of the past locales for mini-concerts masterminded by Michael (sometimes with sibling Katie)... More >>

• Kevin Kling

  published September 26, 2007

  As anyone who has listened to humorist Kevin Kling on NPR's All Things Considered will tell you, the man has a knack for making the mundane... More >>

• Friends With You: Wish Come True

  published September 26, 2007

  For the next month and a half, the SooVAC has gone undeniably whimsical, colorful, and girly (an exclamation point on the girl). Miami-based art... More >>

• Judith G Levy: Girls Brigade

  published September 26, 2007

  For the next month and a half, the SooVAC has gone undeniably whimsical, colorful, and girly (an exclamation point on the girl). Miami-based art... More >>

• Ten Days of Oktoberfest

  published September 26, 2007

  Oktoberfest can be a dubious event around the Twin Cities. Sometimes bars with little or no Germanic ties will basically rechristen their happy... More >>

• Bryce McCloud: Invasion USA

  published September 26, 2007

  Letterpress, the art of carving images into blocks that are inked and transferred onto paper, is an old and often neglected printing technique.... More >>

• Rabbit in the Moon

  published September 19, 2007

  When trying to imagine what someone with the name "Bunny" might look like, some people might conjure up visions of soccer moms, others perhaps... More >>

• Twin Town High Release Show

  published September 19, 2007

  If the Twin Cities had their own version of Now That's What I Call Music! the Twin Town High series might just be it. Local musicians... More >>

• Joshua Furst

  published September 19, 2007

  Joshua Furst's first novel, The Sabotage Café, begins as teenager Cheryl packs her belongings (discman, cigarettes, Tori Amos T-shirt),... More >>

• North By Northeast Music Festival

  published September 19, 2007

  The Club Underground website promises that this festival will be the "next, great, outdoor Minnesota music festival." And while the South by... More >>