Email Author TD Mischke

Awards

• 2011 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published December 15, 2010

  "Remembering Michael "Eyedea" Larson"

• 2010 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published March 18, 2009

  "Death Bed Radio"

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2010 Stories by TD Mischke

• Car Carols

  published December 22, 2010

  Driving through Lowertown in St. Paul, bored by political talk radio, I allowed the dial to drift aimlessly to the land of eternal Christmas... More >>

• Micheal Eyedea Larsen: A life remembered

  published December 15, 2010

  Micheal Larsen, known to many as the hip-hop artist Eyedea, died two months ago, three weeks shy of his 29th birthday. He was found in bed, in... More >>

• Call of the wild

  published December 15, 2010

  The bar had closed early due to the blizzard, and Nathan Greer was holding court in the wee hours. "The stuff is alive, man," he said... More >>

• Art's Mother

  published December 8, 2010

  At the end of this month, this publication will come out with its annual "Artists of the Year" issue, a celebration of those industrious souls... More >>

• Pink Ribbon or Red Alert

  published December 1, 2010

  Pink paraphernalia was strewn about near the trash bin. Nancy hadn't had the strength to drag it all out to the curb since Breast Cancer... More >>

• Come All Ye Faithful

  published November 24, 2010

  At the end of each November, the Phillipsons toss a single desk lamp high into the lone pine tree in their front yard in south Minneapolis.... More >>

• Flight of Fancy

  published November 17, 2010

  The dreary TSA agent asked for the man's boarding pass and ID, then peered at the documents as if he were an old Cold War border... More >>

• Plain Speak

  published November 10, 2010

  "He loved life and lived it to the fullest," the minister began, as Lars rolled his eyes and sighed. "What does that... More >>

• This American Life

  published November 3, 2010

  It's autumn 1960. Cactus Jack and Larry Lee are on their way to Jump-River Rosy's, fixing to meet up for a rockabilly gig. On the way Larry... More >>

• The Fall Faithful

  published October 27, 2010

  I drove to Lambeau field with my son last Sunday for the Vikings game and spent the evening trying to tune out the chatter of a loud Packer... More >>

• Death Be Not Proud

  published October 20, 2010

  According to Michael Speece, the Soap Factory's haunted house threw down the gauntlet. He just picked it up. "Scaring someone was easy... More >>

• Coming Clean

  published October 13, 2010

  Squeaky Sullivan was born in a Laundromat on the east side of St. Paul in 1954. His mother had gone into labor while she was folding clothes,... More >>

• Magic Bus

  published October 6, 2010

  Freddy Jackson, an unemployed St. Paul hotel concierge, bought a broken-down MTC bus from a Hastings junkyard last spring for $2,000. This... More >>

• Knocking on Heaven's Door

  published September 29, 2010

  Roger Nygard's head was filled with existential angst prior to embarking on his four-year odyssey directing his new documentary, The Nature... More >>

• Cold Reality

  published September 22, 2010

  The woman from the Minneapolis Visitors Bureau was more anxious than usual. The cool winds of autumn were blowing, and she was running out of... More >>

• Lawyers, Drugs, and Money

  published September 15, 2010

  In a damning new article in the latest issue of Mother Jones magazine, Dr. Carl Elliott, a professor at the University of Minnesota's... More >>

• The Night Gig

  published September 8, 2010

  It's late at night and the radio station is empty. The desks in the newsroom are lined up like sentries guarding a lone police radio. The... More >>

• Should I Stay or Should I Go

  published September 1, 2010

  "I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school," Rod Stewart sang in that now-stale oldie. The option always sounded pretty good... More >>

• The Banality Bandwagon

  published August 25, 2010

  AND SO IT begins. Nary a media mongrel in town can feel delight today. The State Fair cometh, and once again stories must be... More >>

• Playing Their Hot Hand

  published August 18, 2010

  It's been a summer of hot, wet, and stormy weather in Minnesota and, professionally, meteorologists are riding high. They've been... More >>

• Sex and semantics

  published August 11, 2010

  I'm uncomfortable with the term "boink."   Last week I saw the word employed rather casually in a column in our daily paper,and it... More >>

• Like animals

  published July 28, 2010

  "There's more than one way to skin a cat," said the old goat when, mad as a wet hen, he set out traps in his backyard to keep rabbits from... More >>

• Breakfast Down at Mickey's

  published July 21, 2010

  The leg moved up and down rapidly and continuously as Lance watched from the corner of his eye while eating his dry omelet. The leg, six inches... More >>

• Ode to the Word

  published July 14, 2010

  Jerome Deville died peacefully late last month at the age of 49. If it's true, as many claim, that at death some part of us leaves the... More >>

• The dead and the restless

  published July 7, 2010

  On the busy corner of Lake and Cedar in Minneapolis, just 10 feet from the sidewalk, one can find old gravestones standing in stoic silence.... More >>