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  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    RA Mac Sammy, new food truck specializes in mac and cheese

    ​We first spotted them at the St. Paul winter carnival. A sun-colored new food truck specializing in custom-made mac and cheese. Now that the weather has turned warmer, they're out on a more regular basis. We decided to stop by and give their comfort food a try. We also chatted with the mac and ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Kurt Bills, MNGOP Rep., seeking Republican endorsement to challenge Klobuchar

    ​Today, state Rep. Kurt Bills, R-Rosemount, announced he is seeking the GOP nomination to challenge Sen. Amy Klobuchar this November.Bills, 42, a high school economic teacher and former Rosemount City Council members, will compete against former state Rep. Dan Severson and decorated war veteran Pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Displaced penguins saved by Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley

    African penguins now residing at the Minnesota Zoo.​A group of displaced penguins can stop worrying about where they're going to live. They belong to all of us, now that they've found a home at the Minnesota Zoo. African blackfooted penguins are endangered in the wild due to overfishing and oil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Dabble in beer drinking and use your faux French accent this week in food

    Pace yourself, beer dabbler.​Which event will net total weekend domination: The Bastille Day Block Party or the Highland Festival Beer Dabbler? Wait...why do we have to choose? The former is on Sunday, while the latter on Saturday. Prepare yourself for a busy July week (and weekend) of ingesti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Newsweek: 9 Minnesota high schools among best in U.S.

    Newsweek says Edina High School is the best in the state. Last year, the honor went to Minneapolis Southwest.​Nine Minnesota high schools have been named to Newsweek's list of the best high schools in the country this year, but none of them are in Minneapolis or St. Paul. We bring that up only be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2011

    Drink Summit on a boat and celebrate Surly this week in food

    Celebrate the power of the pint on Saturday​We were tempted to come up with a Seussian rhyme for all the ways and places you can enjoy a pint this week (On a boat? At a patio? In Surly's backyard?) but we'd rather sip than than stress over rhyme schemes, especially when this week offers so man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Veggie sushi, new Twins concessions, Free Bacon Wednesday, and more this week in food

    DIY veggie sushi at the Wedge this week​It's technically April, but the weather hasn't cooperated enough to officially declare patio season open for business just yet (remember last year when we hit 81 degrees on April 1? Sigh.) Luckily there are plenty of food-related activities to distract y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Help! Dinner spot in the south metro?

    ​I am trying to find a restaurant in the southern suburbs for a meet-up and am having no luck. A former co-worker lives in Faribault and she's going to meet me for dinner, so I want to pick somewhere that won't require her to drive all the way into the Cities. I am thinking Lakeville/Apple Val ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Birthornot.com owners won't talk on video [VIDEO]

    The Arnolds are quiet today amid growing proof their website is a hoax.​With theories flying that BirthOrNot.com owners Alisha and Pete Arnold are really just staging an elaborate pro-life propaganda hoax, we took a quick jaunt out to Apple Valley to get their explanation of the growing intern ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Zeeboid license plate: The smoking gun in the Birthornot hoax

    Photo: Jessica LussenhopOn the trail of the Zeeboid.​Who is Pete Arnold, the guy who, along with his wife Alisha, launched the birthornot.com website and abortion poll? He's a right wing blogger who goes by the nickname Zeeboid. The name's on the license plate of the blue Neon parked in his Appl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Gawker falls for BirthOrNot abortion hoax by its own trollish commenter, Zeeboid [UPDATED]

    Nick Denton bought the birthornot.com hoax hook, line and sinker on Gawker.​Earlier today, we revealed that Pete Arnold, the father of the fetus at the center of the birthornot abortion poll, is actually a rightwing internet troll. We even sent a reporter to the Arnold house in Apple Valley, where ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Birthornot.com: Is it a hoax or not?

    Are these people for real?​As a story, it's almost too good to be true. In fact, it may not be true at all. The more we look into the online abortion poll posted at birthornot.com, the more suspicious it sounds.

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Naked Grady Sizemore vs. the St. Cloud State co-ed

    Giving "tea bag" a whole new meaning.​Cleveland Indian Grady Sizemore was caught with his pants down on the Internet last year, and a 19-year-old St. Cloud State University student from Apple Valley named Leah M. Ayers may have done the exposing. Sizemore's problems began when he thought it w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Timothy Carson sentenced for cop-turned-robber spree

    Timothy Carson​Ex-Marine Timothy Carson is an Iraq war veteran, and a former Washington County corrections officer and Minneapolis police SWAT member. Carson is also a convicted bank robber and small-time stick up man. And yesterday he was sentenced the second time for his crime spree earlier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Foodie alert: Fabian Seafood truck in the Twin Cities today

    www.fabianseafood.comIowans buying Fabian Seafood in the 1980s.​The Fabian Seafood Company of Galveston, Texas (about 300 miles west of the BP spill), is in its 33rd year of driving trucks of fresh seafood--wild-caught Gulf shrimp, blue crab, oysters, and more--to the Twin Cities and selling i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Parbati Kalicharan stabs granddaughter over puzzle

    Photo: Yashima.A quiet night with grandma turned to ear-stabbing.​The whole quiet-night-putting-together-a-puzzle-with-grandma scenario didn't pan out quite the way Parbati Zimmerman Kalicharan and her granddaughter might have planned: A small argument escalated into face-stabbing.

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Pazzaluna, Tria, & Enjoy offer bottle of wine as birthday freebie

    Hit the century mark and you'll have $100 worth of drinking to do.​Restaurants often treat birthday diners to a celebratory margarita or dessert, but three Morrissey restaurants--Pazzaluna in St. Paul, Tria in North Oaks, and Enjoy in Apple Valley--are upping the incentive to spend your specia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Plagiarism Inc: For Sale

    Have a hundred-grand laying around? Call this guy.​Jordan Kavoosi is getting out of the essay-writing racket.

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Eden Prairie and 4 other 'burbs crowned "best small cities"

    Photo: bubzillionLovely​Here's something that the Twin Cities suburbs of Eden Prairie, Plymouth, Woodbury, Eagan and Apple Valley all have in common besides cul-de-sacs: They all made Money magazine's Top 20 "best small cities" list for 2010. Eden Prairie placed first in the country because o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Steve Horner, Tom's brother, admits anti-"ladies night" crusade

    Maybe Steve Horner needs a stiff one​Steve Horner sounds like a party pooper. It turns out he's the guy who filed complaints about five local bars discriminating against men because they offered "ladies night" drink specials -- an he's never set foot in any of them. And now we know which bars ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Ex-SWAT Timothy Carson deserves 10 years behind bars, prosecutor says

    Carson's lawyer says her client was hoping to die in a confrontation with cops​There's some bargaining going on in the sad case of Ex-Minneapolis police SWAT officer Timothy Carson, who awaits sentencing for a January bank heist in Apple Valley. Carson "drew his loaded gun, jumped onto the te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Timothy Carson, ex cop, pleads not guilty in Apple Valley bank robbery

    Prosecutors say he robbed a Wells Fargo bank in Apple Valley on Jan. 6. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Former Minneapolis cop Timothy Carson indicted in bank heist

    If he's convicted, he could face decades behind bars.

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Minneapolis SWAT cop arrested in suburban bank robbery

    Timothy Edward Carson is also suspected of being involved in four other robberies near his Dakota County home.

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Man allegedly strangled wife over TV channel argument

    If watching TV is an all-American activity, strangling your wife over what channel to watch is probably even more American.

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Minneapolis mom to give birth on Internet

    Lynsee's due date is coming up! The 23-year-old teacher from Minneapolis is planning to deliver live online.

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Minn. Zoo pretending an animal escaped today

    If you happen to see an Amur leopard saunter into your backyard this afternoon, just leave it be. It's only a drill.

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    Apple Valley taxi driver found fatally stabbed in car

    Michael Palm, 41, had been employed at Suburban Taxi for more than a year and "was one of the most gentle guys you could ever meet," said the company's general manager.

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Masseur fail: Can you hold my genitals while I give you a massage?

    At least six female clients at an Apple Valley massage parlor allegedly got quite a hand full when Lawrence Martin Valencour, 60, gave them massages.

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Apple Valley woman sues over minced ginger

    An Apple Valley woman blames United Noodles, Cub Foods, and Supervalu for cuts she got from a jar of minced ginger.

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Minn. Zoo animals start smoke-free life Saturday

    The Minnesota Zoo will officially go smoke-free starting Saturday. The Apple Valley zoo already bans smoking indoors, but now all outdoor spaces will be off limits too.

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Minn. Zoo hopes resident tigers play the mating game

    The Minnesota Zoo is on a mission to get some more tiger cubs, but it isn't that easy. The long and sometimes useless mating game is in full swing with two tigers they hope will make love in the coming months.

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    Sake2Me

    The Minnesota Zoo is on a mission to get some more tiger cubs, but it isn't that easy. The long and sometimes useless mating game is in full swing with two tigers they hope will make love in the coming months.

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    Five Questions For... Bill Roehl of LazyLightning

    The Minnesota Zoo is on a mission to get some more tiger cubs, but it isn't that easy. The long and sometimes useless mating game is in full swing with two tigers they hope will make love in the coming months.

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2008

    Fountains in Apple Valley

    The Minnesota Zoo is on a mission to get some more tiger cubs, but it isn't that easy. The long and sometimes useless mating game is in full swing with two tigers they hope will make love in the coming months.

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

    Fringe by Numbers: Final Library Preview Finds Favor with Young Viewers

    The Minnesota Zoo is on a mission to get some more tiger cubs, but it isn't that easy. The long and sometimes useless mating game is in full swing with two tigers they hope will make love in the coming months.

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2008

    Bears and otters would like you to drink

    The Minnesota Zoo is on a mission to get some more tiger cubs, but it isn't that easy. The long and sometimes useless mating game is in full swing with two tigers they hope will make love in the coming months.

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2008

    Breakfast of Champions 5/12: Of Wolves and (Hot) Dogs

    The Minnesota Zoo is on a mission to get some more tiger cubs, but it isn't that easy. The long and sometimes useless mating game is in full swing with two tigers they hope will make love in the coming months.

  • News

    December 19, 2007

    Herbal Remedy

    Killer weed ravages suburbs, supplies of Cheetos

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2007

    6/20 Morning Communiqué

    Killer weed ravages suburbs, supplies of Cheetos

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2005

    12/15: Morning Communique

    Killer weed ravages suburbs, supplies of Cheetos

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2005

    Suburban sex offender madness

    Killer weed ravages suburbs, supplies of Cheetos

  • News

    March 30, 2005

    The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival: It Ain't a Small World, After All

    The sort-of true story of a Minneapolis man who made his mom into a movie, plus two local trailers, and 36 reviews from around the globe

  • Restaurants

    March 9, 2005

    Scattered Gems

    With nothing in common but uncommonly good food, two far-flung wonders are revealed

  • News

    March 14, 2001

    Spare Me

    We bowl for colitis and rock for Christ

  • Books

    December 16, 1998

    Mine Eyes Have Seen the Quarry

    When residents in a new Apple Valley subdivision bought their homes, they had no idea a gravel pit was in the works next door

  • News

    November 19, 1997

    And I'll Huff and I'll Puff

    No-knock search warrants used to be reserved for police drug raids, when evidence might disappear while suspects were answering the door. Not anymore, Twin Cities civil-rights advocates and attorneys complain.

  • News

    September 17, 1997

    No Vacancy

    No-knock search warrants used to be reserved for police drug raids, when evidence might disappear while suspects were answering the door. Not anymore, Twin Cities civil-rights advocates and attorneys complain.

  • News

    March 13, 1996

    The Big Tent Folds

    Portraits of two Republican caucuses--one suburban, one urban-- underline the growing polarities in GOP ranks.

  • News

    February 14, 1996

    We're All Bozos Here

    A former teacher's contrarian view of the reforms that have to precede "education reform.

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