Email Author Kevin Hoffman

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "WCCO Duck Dog Story"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "WCCO Airs Video of Woman's Suicide"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "New York Times Quotes Anonymous City Pages Blog Commenter"

• 2011 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists

  "The Facebook Photos Tom Emmer Doesn't Want You to See"

• 2011 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists

  "Metrodome Collapse Survivor"

• 2009 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published August 13, 2008

  "UFC 87"

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published March 28, 2007

  "The Boogeyman Drops the Gloves"

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published June 27, 2007

  "The Strongest Men in the World"

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists

  "Boy, Interrupted: One Man's Struggle with an Eating Disorder"

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2013 Stories by Kevin Hoffman

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  Seth Meyers makes Minn. gay marriage joke on SNL [VIDEO]

  published May 20, 2013

  If you missed Saturday Night Live over the weekend, you may not have heard that Minnesota's legalization of gay marriage figured prominently in the Weekend Update segment."Minnesota this week became t... More >>

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  George Takei shares "epic photobomb win" from Minnesota [UPDATED]

  published May 15, 2013

  George Takei, the former Mr. Sulu who has reinvented himself as an internet wunderkind, yesterday shared the funniest picture to come out of Minnesota's gay marriage legalization.See also: Marria... More >>

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  Joe Soucheray blames single moms for flight delays, unplowed streets

  published May 06, 2013

  Over the weekend, Pioneer Press columnist Joe Soucheray uncorked a baffling column blaming single mothers for flight delays and unplowed streets. While lazing about for a topic, Soucheray stumbled acr... More >>

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  Producer Jack Douglas on John Lennon: "He was tired of being the fat Beatle"

  published Apr 17, 2013

  Jack Douglas has enjoyed a legendary career in music. After starting on Robert Kennedy's senatorial campaign, Douglas worked with a Who's Who of rock luminaries, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Aeros... More >>

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  Tom Barnard vs. Howard Stern: The Origin of the Feud

  published Apr 01, 2013

  National radio personality Howard Stern has been a rather prominent footnote in the tale of Tom Barnard's meltdown last week.After several bizarre Twitter diatribes, Barnard took to his airwaves Frid... More >>

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  Jose Canseco desperately wants to play for St. Paul Saints

  published Mar 01, 2013

  Jose Canseco wants to take his talents to St. Paul.The disgraced steroid-abusing slugger was the subject of a facetious Star Tribune column by Jim Souhan suggesting that Canseco would be a perfect mat... More >>

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  Pioneer Press seeks sexy accountants

  published Feb 08, 2013

  Do you blow through actuarial charts while displaying your goods in NSFW swimwearr Then you may already be a winner!We assume it's for a story on sexy accountants (perhaps based on this website called... More >>

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  Michael Brodkorb's wife updates his condition

  published Jan 25, 2013

  Michael Brodkorb's wife issued a press release this afternoon to update the public on her husband's health following an accident that left him in critical condition. "Michael's condition has improved... More >>

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  Amy Koch tweets update about Michael Brodkorb's condition

  published Jan 24, 2013

  :::: FROM EARLIER TODAY: Michael Brodkorb critically injured in one-car crash; alcohol detected on his breath :::: Amy Koch, who resigned her senate leadership position in the wake of revelations abo... More >>

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  Wild Forward Zenon Konopka shows us what 30 stitches to the face looks like [PHOTO]

  published Jan 21, 2013

  Wild Forward Zenon Konopka wasted no time reminding us that the NHL is indeed a rough sport.He tweeted this grisly photo after he took a stick to the face during the first game of the season against t... More >>

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  Today's Star Tribune says it's still 2012 [PHOTO]

  published Jan 20, 2013

  Are you still writing 2012 on your checksr Someone at the Star Tribune can sympathize. Today's edition says it was published on January 20, 2012.Correction: In fact, we are living in the year 2013, as... More >>

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  Cory Booker gives RT Rybak props on Twitter

  published Jan 17, 2013

  Congrats, RT. You just got called "cool" by the coolest man in America.Cory Booker is more of a superhero than a mayor, so getting big ups from him on Twitter is an honor just short of bro h... More >>

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  Petition to oust Michele Bachmann from Intelligence is a no brainer

  published Jan 09, 2013

  People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group, is circulating a petition asking John Boehner to remove Michele Bachmann from the House Intelligence Committee.The petition targets Bachmann's bi... More >>

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  Stephen Colbert makes best Minnesota joke ever about Chris Kluwe

  published Jan 09, 2013

  You win, Stephen Colbert. That was a good one.... More >>

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  Vikings beat Packers in wrong newspaper headline

  published Jan 06, 2013

  What game were they watchingrThe Virginian-Pilot this morning headlined its summary of last night's game, "Vikings beat Packers."It might be more understandable if it was a close, down-to-the-wire con... More >>

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  Armed standoff on NE Pierce Street: Man dead of self-inflicted gunshot

  published Jan 04, 2013

  Many people who were out and about this Friday night inadvertently ran into an ongoing armed standoff on the 2400 block of NE Pierce Street.Police are responding to a report of a suicidal man with a w... More >>

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  Eric Thomes mugshot photos chronicle DWI decline prior to Decker death [PHOTOS]

  published Jan 04, 2013

  It now appears that Eric Thomes was the true killer of Officer Tom Decker, and that the shooting was part of a suicidal spiral that found him accruing four arrests for DWI in the previous year.SEE ALS... More >>