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Ten Stories About Prince that are better than fan fiction

"Oh, you live in Minnesota? You must know Prince." This post is for anyone who has fielded an asinine inquiry like that one at some point. Minneapolis resident Charlie Pauken had heard enough ludicrous questions about his relationship with the Purple One from friends back in his old home of Bowling ... More >>

Oprah KFC coupon lawsuit settled: Get your $3.99 refund!

Oprah hypes a KFC coupon. Lawsuit results. ​Two years ago, after Oprah promoted a KFC coupon for a grilled chicken meal, a perfect storm of the endorser's popularity and the national hunger for fast food turned the promotion into a PR disaster.

Lil Wayne at the Xcel Energy Center, 8/10/11

Photos by Erik Hess​Lil WayneAugust 10, 2011Xcel Center, St. PaulLil Wayne is in a hurry to make up for lost time. Coming off a career-interrupting prison stint, the self-proclaimed best rapper alive picked up where he left off, resuming the rigorous road schedule that made him one of the top gros ... More >>

Kanye West offers subscription to his life, here are 13 possible special features

​Talk about putting your business in the street - or out on the Internet, as it were. Basically, for between $3.99 and $4.99 per month, you get to watch a carefully edited version of Kanye West's Life. As Pitchfork reported yesterday, this quasi-Orwellian cash-in includes concerts, rehearsals, det ... More >>

Mayda headlines Stone Arch Festival

Stylish singer-songwriter blushes when compared to Prince

Five vintage fast-food commercials we love

Hammer loves Taco Bell​This week's cover story, Wing to Power, delved into the popularity and history of the Buffalo wing. Over the years, fast-food chains like McDonald's and KFC have experimented with their own versions of Buffalo's most famous culinary export. We noticed that along the wa ... More >>

Pollo Campero brings Central American fast food to West Saint Paul

Sara RiceNot KFC, "LFC": Latin Fried Chicken​Put a check mark on the list of restaurants that have no presence in Minnesota next to Pollo Compero--the international fast-food chain that recently opened its first location here in our snowy state.

KFC China commercial stars fake Obama [VIDEO]

KFC ChinaColonel Sanders teams up with Obama in China​The launch of the new Fish Filet Soft Roll at KFC in China gained a worldly spokesperson: Barack Obama. OK, so it's an Obama impersonator who promotes the "change" from fried chicken to fried fish. In one commercial, the fake president ho ... More >>

Flavor Flav launches fried chicken restaurant in ... Iowa? We offer prize to 1st Minnesotan to eat there

"The Colonel better watch his back."​The acronym WTF was invented for news like this: Earlier this week, former Public Enemy rapper and reality TV star Flavor Flav opened his first fried chicken restaurant in, of all the places on the planet, Clinton, Iowa. Clinton is a town of less than 30,0 ... More >>

Dwight Slade

Pink Ribbon or Red Alert

Cancer's causes lost in the fundraising

The McDonald's McRib sandwich encourages queasiness, regret

Jason ZabelThe McRib is even less delicious than it looks. Notice the gray meat. It tastes like gray meat.​​​Yep, McDonald's McRib is terrible alright. I'm not writing this as a snob or an elitist or as someone who claims to never touch fast food or processed food or anything that hasn't come ... More >>

Wine dinners. Beer dinners. Cigar dinners?

www.wikipedia.comSmoke 'em if you got 'em--but only after you finish your food.​You've heard of pairing food with wine, beer, cheese, and chocolate, but how about tobacco? Tria in North Oaks, one of the nicest eateries in the northern 'burbs, is following the lead of its sister restaurant, The ... More >>

Top 5 restaurant myths

Kentucky Fried...what now?​We've all heard them.  Those urban legends that snake their way across the world, lodging in your horrified imagination via your co-worker whose sister knows a guy who swears that this happened to his girlfriend's cousin last week.  And now, suddenly, true ... More >>

Friendly's 1,200-calorie BurgerMelt? Burger Jones has it beat by a mile

Burger JonesYou're getting fat just looking at it​ You may have heard that the Friendly's restaurant chain recently joined the outrageous-food bandwagon (popularized by KFC's Double Downs and one-upped by Krispy Kreme's Donut Burger) by creating the new

Raku and Pairings fit right in in western suburbs

One is Japanese and the other favors a "total meal concept"

KFC's Double Down is here to stay

​Is this good news? KFC's excessively ridiculous Double Down "sandwich" --a mess of melted cheese and bacon wedged between two chunks of fried chicken--was originally a publicity stunt meant to be discontinued this Sunday. But KFC has given the bypass-inducer a reprieve and decided to make it ... More >>

Best of Hot Dish: April 5th-9th, 2010

howieluvzus/flickr​ This week at Hot Dish we laughed, we cried, we ate, we drank, we loved. All sorts of amazing things went down and here are the highlights:

Double Down countdown: Book your bypass now!

​Do you dream of the day you can wrap your mouth around cheese and bacon that has been wedged between two hunks of fried chicken and passed off as a sandwich? Well, your day has come, my friend. KFC is unleashing the Double Down, a "sandwich" made solely of fried chicken, melted cheese and bac ... More >>

KFC offers free chicken for return of Col. Sanders statue

What would you do with $500 worth of free chicken? Some Kentucky thieves may be about to find out.

Top 10: Hot Dish blog posts of 2009

Plumb the depths of the minds of online readers, via the stories that made 'em click:

KFC advertising new "fiery" wings on fire hydrants

To the potential delight of local dog owners, KFC pays two cities to advertise on their fire hydrants.

McDonald's meat better quality than your kid's school?

Do fast food restaurants care more about your kids than the government?

10 worst dining trends of the decade

Fried onion blossoms...molecular gastronomy...what would you add?

KFC giving away free chicken today - yikes!

KFC's giving away chicken today. Maybe. Might be. Just call.

KFC's answer to the McGangBang: the Double Down

We hope KFC's new "chicken as bread" sandwich is not coming to a store near you.

Fancy Fast Food makes chic out of schlock

Fast food doesn't typically inspire creativity that we know of, but check out these fancified reincarnations of Baconators and Slyders and other fast food staples.

Oprah's free KFC coupon sparks riots

Not to be outdone by Popeye's, KFC gets into the free food feeding frenzy!

Fridge shot: Anodyne cook likes having someone to say hi to

Anodyne cook Cody Weigel's life is nuts right now, but that doesn't mean he's lost his sense of humor.

Domacin of Stillwater and Tian Jin of Chanhassen are bright spots in the suburbs

A classic culinary case of East meets West

Repurposed fast-food restaurants

Crime doesn't play: Two new shows examine criminal justice

The Jury and Killer Joe show murder through different lenses

What's the most caloric order in the Twin Cities?

The Economy of World Domination

John Perkins

The Mexitalian bistro La Chaya has staying power

Diners hungry for a place to linger over their meals have a home in Kingfield

Recipe for Huckabee Fried Squirrel

Savage Love

2/23 Morning Communiqué

1/25 Morning Communiqué

The Dead and Dying

Soderbergh's atypically marketed small-town noir

Scattered Gems

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

Drugs, Dogs and Documents

The problems that plague Minneapolis

Touch Me, I'm Sick

Bubble Boy's comedy is not infectious

Nouvelle Cuisine

What's Cooking? provides a recipe for the other L.A.

Their Generation

Not trying to cause a big sensation--just stoked on Mountain Dew and Parliaments

Off Beat

Breaking Away

Though weighted down with everything from CD players and wine glasses to Mexican-flag fringing, lowrider bikes are a fast way to get noticed

Holy Buckets

A Clean Sweep?: The women of Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues attend to some metaphoric clutter.

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