Lorie Line

From Broadway to the Guthrie to Holidazzle: A Jack Edwards retrospective

​At age 19, armed with a degree from Ithaca College, a suitcase, and five dollars in his pocket, Jack Edwards headed to New York to start a career in design. Though he thought this would be impossible because of his young age and inexperience, it took him just two weeks to land a job with a fa ... More >>

Dave King Trucking Company at Loring Theater, 1/15/11

Photo by Nikki Miller​Dave King Trucking Company January 15, 2011 Loring Theater, Minneapolis Saturday night, the Dave King Trucking Company not only inaugurated the Loring Theater's return to its roots of cinema, theater, music and variety performances, but also taught us what that one reall ... More >>

Mark Mallman preps for his annual New Year's Eve bash

​"I want to be the Lorie Line of New Year's Eve." The year was 2006, and the time was 11:59 pm. Mark Mallman stood on stage in front of a packed Varsity Theater and uttered those words, helping the audience count down the final moments of the year and usher in 2007. Since that epic night, which cl ... More >>

Crystal Gayle at the O'Shaughnessy, 11/6/10

Photo by Nikki Miller​Crystal Gayle November 6, 2010 O'Shaughnessy Auditorium There is one issue in this country that has proven more polarizing than any other, in the past 30 years reconstructing party politics, weighing deeply on the hearts and minds of every American citizen, occasionally ... More >>

Pyromaniacs, your TV marathon awaits you

Rooting Against the Home Team

Seven Minnesota authors pen poison Valentines to the place we call home

School Districts of the Rich and Famous

With money tight, west metro schools are accruing wealthy endowments and paying for teachers

Long Hot Winter

Another year, another playoff collapse

Off Beat

Another year, another playoff collapse

The Big Kahuna

Captain Budd sails off in pursuit of the great tan whale