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It's 6:59 p.m. in Minnesota Public Radio's downtown St. Paul offices, and Mark Wheat is on in 40 seconds. "I prefer to stand when I'm on air," says the long-limbed,...
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When my mother, a public high school teacher in rural Iowa, entered her classroom to find the occasional Bible verse or Jesus-themed riddle scrawled on the whiteboard, she...
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Dusk was descending as a dozen skinheads eyed their counterparts across Lagoon Avenue. The ragtag crew stood their ground, the rubber soles of their Doc Martens defiantly...
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Watching Brock Lesnar engage in no-contact sparring is like watching a polar bear perform an interpretive dance. At the Minnesota Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Brooklyn...
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Every four years, Iowa transforms from an inconspicuous little rural state into a veritable clusterfuck of egomaniacal presidential candidates and predatory media types....
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It's easy to forget that Willie Mobley is 18 years old. Sporting a full beard and a frizzy quasi-fro, the 6-foot-2-inch, 250-pound defensive lineman looks more like a man...
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For many Twin Cities residents, the Mall of America means one thing: Your out-of-town friends are visiting and want to see the cities' most obvious landmark. Our...
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In April, faculty at the University of St. Thomas's Justice and Peace Studies program were on track to book celebrated civil rights activist and Nobel Laureate Archbishop...
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As a teenager, Kevin was never too keen on booze. Watching his peers stagger through their adolescence in a drunken stupor left him baffled. Why waste your time with the...
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Back in April, when University of St. Thomas staffer Mike Klein informed his colleagues in the Justice and Peace Studies program that he'd succeeded in booking Archbishop...
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Until this spring, commuters navigating St. Paul bus routes frequently had to run through a gauntlet of street crime. It wasn't uncommon to see a furtive drug deal go...
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By Ward Rubrecht, Jonathan Kaminsky, Paul Demko, Matt Snyders and Peter S. Scholtes Published:
September 26, 2007
The fates of 14 Star Tribune reporters who work for the newspaper's soon-to-be-defunct weekly suburban editions have been in limbo in recent weeks. Negotiations on their...
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By Jeff Severns Guntzel, Rhena Tantisunthorn, Peter S. Scholtes, Paul Demko and Matt Snyders Published:
September 19, 2007
If we learned nothing else last week, we at least discovered that Katherine Kersten is most definitely not a closeted lesbian. In her latest mind-bending screed to appear in...
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As Sgt. Ed Nelson of the Minneapolis Police Department approached his officers on La Salle Avenue, the looming 25-year veteran of the force appeared calm and unruffled, though...
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By Paul Demko, Matt Snyders, Jeff Severns Guntzel and Ward Rubrecht Published:
September 12, 2007
A West Coast organization with friendly ties to bathroom Lothario Larry Craig (R-Third Stall) is placing the blame for Craig's fall from grace squarely where it belongs:...
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Matt Snyders, Jeff Severns Guntzel, Peter S. Scholtes and Jonathan Kaminsky Published:
September 5, 2007
PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at University of Minnesota-Morris, has never been one to mince words, especially when it comes to creationists, intelligent...
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It's a Thursday afternoon and Christopher Harmon is busy making the final preparations for a public reading of his debut screenplay, Sparkle, Serena! From his modest,...
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Sitting on the front stoop of her home in north Minneapolis, Barb shares a mid-afternoon smoke with her friend, Latasha, and glares balefully across 26th Avenue at the...
