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Top 10 Minnesota brands with most Facebook likes

The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal just released its annual list of the Minnesota brands with the top 10 Facebook likes. In the social media age, Facebook likes are a good proxy for evaluating where brands stand with their customers. Sure, dollars and cents they aren't, but a strong social me ... More >>

Four indie food trends stolen by chain restaurants

WestwordApplebee's: Corporate posers​The Simpsons famously asked, "If you take away our right to steal ideas, where are they gonna come from?" Entertainment is built on stolen ideas, of course. But so, it seems, is the food industry, especially in recent years. Indie food trends--from food tr ... More >>

Coca-Cola Freestyle machines have arrived!

Testing out the new Freestyle soda machine at Davanni's.​Although Coca-Cola launched its new Freestyle soda machines in Atlanta and Southern California in 2009, it took two years for the sleek, customizable drink dispensers to arrive in the Twin Cities. A computer touch-screen on the Freesty ... More >>

(Anti)Wrecking Ball

Testing out the new Freestyle soda machine at Davanni's.​Although Coca-Cola launched its new Freestyle soda machines in Atlanta and Southern California in 2009, it took two years for the sleek, customizable drink dispensers to arrive in the Twin Cities. A computer touch-screen on the Freesty ... More >>

20 best blizzard people tweets of Snowmageddon 2010

Photo: Nic McPheeBlizzard People​The blizzard unleashed a deluge of snow, and you unleashed a torrent of comment on Twitter. Sometimes it was to share shovel strategies, sometimes it was to bitch about about the snowplows. Sometimes it was to find humor in the mess. Here's some of what flew ... More >>

Alternative monster ideas for when zombies, vampires, and werewolves don't cut it

Bored zombies. Image by mattwi1s0n​People, we are currently depleting one of our most precious natural pop-culture resources: monsters. In an era where the tenor of the times seems to be "everyone around me is a mindless automaton who wants to rip me apart for not being one of them," the Zombie ... More >>

Mark Mallman Marathon 3 live blog, day 4

​This is it, people. We're in the home stretch of Mark Mallman's 78-hour song, which he started performing on Thursday afternoon at the Turf and will wrap up tonight at 10 p.m.For reasons not even we can explain, we've been live-blogging the majority of Marathon 3 here on Gimme Noise, and will con ... More >>

Kyle Arthur Milhaupt robbed a Dairy Queen with a bomb threat

Kyle Milhaupt is in a Dilly Bar of a pickle after robbing a Dairy Queen.​Kyle Arthur Milhaupt's cool treats were definitely melting away when he came up with this one. It was date night for Milhaupt and his fiance Kerri Nicole Bean, and -- since life is short -- he suggested that they get des ... More >>

Marijuana: now available as ice cream

New form of marijuana will give you--and also cure--an ice cream headache​Minnesotans will have to wait for a post-Pawlenty era for the idea of medical marijuana to become a reality in the state, but this story out of California offers a reason to redouble efforts once T-Paw is out the door: M ... More >>

Top restaurateurs vie for lucrative Lake Harriet concessions contract

Will Lake Harriet keep up with the concessions Joneses?​With the success of park operators Tin Fish (Calhoun) and Sea Salt (Minnehaha Falls), more local restaurateurs are eyeing the high-profile and potentially lucrative Lake Harriet concessions contract available in 2011. Rodney White holds t ... More >>

Lumberjack Days

Will Lake Harriet keep up with the concessions Joneses?​With the success of park operators Tin Fish (Calhoun) and Sea Salt (Minnehaha Falls), more local restaurateurs are eyeing the high-profile and potentially lucrative Lake Harriet concessions contract available in 2011. Rodney White holds t ... More >>

Plagiarism Inc.

Jordan Kavoosi built an empire of fake term papers. Now the writers want their cut.

Izzy's, Sebastian Joe's, Dairy Queen, and more: Who makes the best root beer float?

Summer is the season for root beer floats, when we can burn off the calories from such sugary indulgences on a bike or the baseball diamond. We here at The Hot Dish decided to stage a float fight at a few of the Cities' ice cream hot spots: Izzy's Ice Cream, Minnesota's oldest Dairy Queen in Rosevil ... More >>

Dairy Queen's oldest Minnesota store faces demolition

mulad/flickr​ The Preservation Alliance of Minnesota released their list of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2010 and one food landmark was included: " Minnesota's oldest Dairy Queen, on Lexington Avenue North near Larpenteur, [was] built in the early 1950s, the building features ... More >>

Cake Eater, Sweet Retreat, and Cocoa & Fig bakeries furthering the cupcake craze

Minneapolis has a sweet tooth of late

Baskin-Robbins coming to the Twin Cities

Who wants ice cream?!

Target, Dairy Queen say, "What recession?"

Minneapolis companies embark on store-opening binges

DQ offers free stuff for blogger love

Dairy Queen has officially joined the blogosphere. Oh, and Twitter too.

Dairy Queen "sweet deals" not necessarily a bargain

New DQ deals may actually cost a few cents more.

Men's Health names worst foods of 2009

Five Questions for... The Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen management summed up in children's PC game

No more pop machines in parks?

Why the Twin Cities is the best place to eat ice cream in the universe

With this many choices of local, handcrafted treats, why go anywhere else?

The Dead and Dying

Soderbergh's atypically marketed small-town noir

A Little Help from Their Friends

Pro-development faction on park board got big 11th-hour financial help

Nine Things We Learned Last Tuesday

Some highlights from the city elections that time (and voters) forgot

Park and Wreck

This election season, the dysfunctional Minneapolis Park Board is ripe for reform

Noble Grapes

Car-seat country scores a family-friendly wine bar with a serious education mission

I'll Have a Blizzard with a Topping of Basic American Decency

Listening to John Prine at the mouth of a freeway

The Big Picture

The Heights Theater's love of cinema's abandoned technologies is larger than life--as is their upcoming 70mm film series

Have Score, Will Travel

New-music composer Jeffrey Brooks has paid for his education over a card game, survived for months off stolen tuna, and lived on an Amtrak train. So what's he doing raising two happy kids in a house in south Minneapolis?

Eros by Any Other Name

What we talk about when we talk about divorce, and panties, and vaginas

Martin Sexton: Wonder Bar

What we talk about when we talk about divorce, and panties, and vaginas

A Frosted Fantasy

What we talk about when we talk about divorce, and panties, and vaginas

Pie to Thai

What we talk about when we talk about divorce, and panties, and vaginas

It Takes a Villager

What we talk about when we talk about divorce, and panties, and vaginas

Family Favorites Readers’ Picks

What we talk about when we talk about divorce, and panties, and vaginas

Screening New Heights

The ambitious Heights Theatre stretches to bring upscale cinema to an audience outside of Uptown

Sea What I Mean

The ambitious Heights Theatre stretches to bring upscale cinema to an audience outside of Uptown

The Motion Carries

With traditional songs and improvisational marketing, the local Motion Poets are bringing old jazz to new fans

Just Deserts

Seven years after the Gulf War, Paul William Roberts's The Demonic Comedy draws a punch line in the sand

Family Style

Parents, in ways both simple and stunning, must come out too

The Customer is Always Right

For nearly 60 years, the Old Log Theater has practiced the art of making a profit

Dad of a Dry Dandy

Learning to love a landlubber

Readers' Picks

Your favorite places to eat, shop, and play!

Trial by Paper

Millions of tobacco-industry documents find a home in the crammed back rooms of the Depot

Boobs & Boobs

Millions of tobacco-industry documents find a home in the crammed back rooms of the Depot

KEEP ON TRUCKIN'

On the road with the Concrete Farm dance collective and a big rig.

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On the road with the Concrete Farm dance collective and a big rig.