House and Home

Cooking demonstration: Holiday appetizers with a global flair

Got a hankering for holiday appetizers, but tired of veggies and dip or chips and salsa? This may be the cooking class for you.

Summit Avenue Garden Stroll

Got a hankering for holiday appetizers, but tired of veggies and dip or chips and salsa? This may be the cooking class for you.

Mary Mack

Got a hankering for holiday appetizers, but tired of veggies and dip or chips and salsa? This may be the cooking class for you.

Best iPhone apps for Thanksgiving cooks

Mo PerryA $35 cookbook shrunk to a $4.99 app that fits in the palm of your hand​ With most of us gearing up to spend Thursday in the kitchen juggling pots, pans, baking sheets, and kitchen timers, we thought this was the perfect time to introduce you to five of our favorite technological Chef ... More >>

Cockroach infestation closes Kim Huoy Chor Asian Cuisine

www.wikipedia.comNot exactly what you want crawling around in the kitchen.​The owners of Kim Huoy Chor Asian Cuisine in St. Paul just couldn't beat the roaches.

There's more mousies in Twin Cities housies

Image: Mark RobinsonMice and men are getting cosier in the Twin Cities.​Bed bugs may be the trendy household pest du jour, but it appears that mice are more than squeaking out a living. According to hardware stores and local exterminators, calls for service and sales of mousetraps are on the ... More >>

'I Hate My Kitchen' TV series has Twin Cities casting call

Is your kitchen ass-ugly?​Does your kitchen have '80s cabinets, bad wallpaper, and stick-on linoleum floors? You may be in luck: DIY Network is in town casting for a new series called I Hate My Kitchen, in which they take fug kitchens and create fabulousness. We talked to a spokesperson from t ... More >>

Bed Bugs invade Twin Cities

They're hard to kill and coming to a cushion near you

Bedbugs infest Minneapolis: The creepy facts

Image via WikipediaBed bugs: Snuggle up to one in Minneapolis​In news that may give you hives, Minneapolis is the 15th most bed bug-infested city in the country. That's the word from Terminix, which based its rankings on the volume of calls to its bug assassins this year.

Top 5 worst restaurant names

Wondering if this was a good restaurant name...​In honor of Thom Pham's recent naming troubles with his new Wondrous Azian Kitchen (formerly "Wanderers Wondrous Azian Kitchen"), we decided to look into the worst-named restaurants, past and present, in the Twin Cities. Add your suggestions in the c ... More >>

Hennepin County Master Gardener Tour

Wondering if this was a good restaurant name...​In honor of Thom Pham's recent naming troubles with his new Wondrous Azian Kitchen (formerly "Wanderers Wondrous Azian Kitchen"), we decided to look into the worst-named restaurants, past and present, in the Twin Cities. Add your suggestions in the c ... More >>

Slow Food Minnesota: Snail in the Park Series

Wondering if this was a good restaurant name...​In honor of Thom Pham's recent naming troubles with his new Wondrous Azian Kitchen (formerly "Wanderers Wondrous Azian Kitchen"), we decided to look into the worst-named restaurants, past and present, in the Twin Cities. Add your suggestions in the c ... More >>

The Minnesota Table: savor all the seasons

Voyager Press​Author Shelley Holl, a former travel columnist and illustrator for the New Orleans Times Picayune, recently published a book celebrating locally produced food. The Minnesota Table: Recipes for Savoring Local Food Through the Year, documents more than just recipes, the book is also a ... More >>

ASID Showcase Home Tour

Voyager Press​Author Shelley Holl, a former travel columnist and illustrator for the New Orleans Times Picayune, recently published a book celebrating locally produced food. The Minnesota Table: Recipes for Savoring Local Food Through the Year, documents more than just recipes, the book is also a ... More >>

SummerHouse Garden Market

Voyager Press​Author Shelley Holl, a former travel columnist and illustrator for the New Orleans Times Picayune, recently published a book celebrating locally produced food. The Minnesota Table: Recipes for Savoring Local Food Through the Year, documents more than just recipes, the book is also a ... More >>

Art + Architecture: Junkmarket Style

Voyager Press​Author Shelley Holl, a former travel columnist and illustrator for the New Orleans Times Picayune, recently published a book celebrating locally produced food. The Minnesota Table: Recipes for Savoring Local Food Through the Year, documents more than just recipes, the book is also a ... More >>

Morrie Lanning drives House salvia ban towards another vote

At the request of the Moorhead police chief, lawmakers are trying a third time to ban the psychotropic herb.

St. Paul's "Extreme Home" revealed

The crew of 3,000 on the scene of St. Paul's "Extreme Home Makeover" had just 96 hours to tear down and rebuild the home of St Paul home daycare provider Sandy Morris.

Do home gardens save money?

"If gardening were ultimately about cash yields, we'd all move to California and plant medical marijuana."

Carleton students "eat the lawn"

Carleton College gardeners encourage the campus community to "Eat the Lawn." Catchy, huh!

Wienermobile C-R-A-S-H-E-S into Wisconsin home

The over-sized hot dog crashed straight into a Wisconsin home's garage and deck Friday when the driver was trying to turn the vehicle around.

Best produce to grow at home

Getting ready to plant your garden? These tips will help you get the most out of your efforts.

Make drinks like a fancy-pants

Free turkey dinner at First Avenue for Thanksgiving orphans

If you are one of the sad Thanksgiving orphans this year with no dinner to attend, don't fret. First Avenue has you covered... for free!

Party on

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

No Reservations

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

Flowerfest Weekend

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

Garden Must-Grows

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

What's New at Mill City Farmers Market

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

Living Green Expo

A new cookbook intends to make your next dinner party beautiful, tasty, and season-appropriate--oh yeah, and fun.

Patrick's Bakery and Bachman's: Garden of pastry delights

The café and the garden shop go together like coffee and a croissant

The Slumlord of South Minneapolis

Rodent and roach infestations. Overflowing dumpsters. Frigid heating vents. Meet Spiros Zorbalas...

Mondo Condo

When apartments are converted, renters don't have many rights

A Thorny Pride

When apartments are converted, renters don't have many rights

Drink Globally

Minneapolis's newest wine bar, Toast, allows you to drink like any number of rural villagers, steps from the skyscrapers of downtown

If You Lived Here, You'd be Broke by Now

How a cadre of developers has turned $800-a-month local apartments into $200,000 condos—and turned out a few thousand residents in the process.

Bop Lives!

How a cadre of developers has turned $800-a-month local apartments into $200,000 condos—and turned out a few thousand residents in the process.

Home Away From Home

Moving into cable TV's dream spaces

Nature Boy

David Lefkowitz manipulates the environment, one painting at a time

Alien Resurrection

Affirmative action is put to the test again in 'Men in Black II'

Pass the Roach

A downtown cockroach and a nihilistic alley cat light up the gutters in the Theater Gallery's Archy and Mehitabel

A Closer Look at: Vermin

A downtown cockroach and a nihilistic alley cat light up the gutters in the Theater Gallery's Archy and Mehitabel

1999 Brithday Party Directory

A downtown cockroach and a nihilistic alley cat light up the gutters in the Theater Gallery's Archy and Mehitabel

1999 Birthday Listings

A downtown cockroach and a nihilistic alley cat light up the gutters in the Theater Gallery's Archy and Mehitabel

The Plot Thickens

Community gardens in Phillips get weeded out

Can You Dig It?

The dirt on starting a garden with kids

For Sale

Searching for a sense of place

Best Plants for Little Gardeners

Searching for a sense of place

My Dinner With Libby

All Tomorrow's Parties: Annelise Christ waits for company in the Hidden Theatre's Blue Window.

Judyism Revisited

All Tomorrow's Parties: Annelise Christ waits for company in the Hidden Theatre's Blue Window.