Southeast Asia

The best concerts in the Twin Cities this week: 5/8 - 5/14

It's finally starting to feel like May again, and this week is packed with shows. Friday Daughter visits the Fine Line with label-mate and local opener, Jeremy Messersmith. The Amsterdam hosts their second annual Girls Got Rhythm Fest featuring Cherie Currie, The Avengers and many more stretching ov ... More >>

Pao Houa Her

Behind Laos's yellow rain and tears

A controversial Radiolab episode opens old wounds and raises countless questions for Minnesota's Hmong

Best pumpkin dishes in the Twin Cities, part 2

Ah, mid-autumn. The time of year best marked by your level of annoyance with people who are still talking about how great it is that pumpkin lattes are back. But savvy foodies know there are so many more interesting uses for this in-season squash than as a syrupy synthetic shot in your morning coffe ... More >>

Ali Wong

Cheap eats around the Twin Cities

A dozen different dishes for under $10

Cinco de Mayo, Great Waters cask dinner kick off May this Week in Food

It's (almost) May, and our week in food reflects this most welcome month: Cinco de Mayo cooking classes and a new chef at Gather just to name a few. Enjoy!

Best of Hot Dish: February 6 -February 10, 2012

This week at the Hot Dish the stories were extra hot to warm the coldest of days. Here are a few of the week's top reports. â€‹~We know many of you want to get your lovin' on for Valentine's Day; here's our picks for the most romantic restaurants for you and your snookums.~We also know tha ... More >>

Ford plant closure symptomatic of capitalism's ills, writes World Socialist

​Weeks after the last Ford vehicle build in Minnesota rolled off the Highland Park assembly line, the World Socialist Website writes that the plant's closure is symptomatic of the decline of American manufacturing. The fact that one of the world's leading sources for left-wing news and analysis pi ... More >>

Month in Review: Open, Closed, Coming Soon January 2012

​NOW OPENColossal Cafe(2315 Como Ave, St. Paul)Rosa Mexicano (City Pages Review)(609 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis)Little Szechuan (City Pages Review)(5377 West 16th St., St. Louis Park)West Bank Diner(324 Cedar Ave S. Minneapolis)Five Guys Burgers and Fries(8360 3rd St N., Oakdale)Eat Street Pi ... More >>

Kinsen Noodles presents new sake list

​Kinsen Noodles and Bar had a free food and sake pairing last Wednesday to celebrate it new sake list. According to sake master Chris Griese, pairings for sake are not as regimented as those for, say, wine. Restaurant employees put the pairings together by eating and drinking, and then decid ... More >>

Top 5 INDOOR food truck experiences

We'll miss you, sunny days of summer​Day by day our favorite street finds are dropping out of the game. A few intrepid souls like Nate of Natedogs and the vivacious ladies of Fork in the Road plan to stay out all winter long. Others, like Lisa Carlson and Carrie Summers of the Chef Shack, will lea ... More >>

JOY: A Holiday Cabaret

The Black Angels at the Fine Line, 10/17/11

The Black Angels​The Black Angels with Dead Meadow and SpindriftOctober 17, 2011Fine Line Music Cafe, MinneapolisIt was an eerie dream-like night of cinematic psychedelia as the Black Angels, Dead Meadow, and Spindrift, three of the more fantastic contemporary psychedelic bands in the U.S., c ... More >>

Jamie Malone of Sea Change: Chef Chat, Part 1

Joy SummersChef Jamie Malone takes the lead at Sea Change​It was recently announced that the chef de cuisine title at Sea Change, the sustainable seafood restaurant at the Guthrie, would be handed over to an insider, Jamie Malone. After flying in chefs from around the country to try out, Sea Chang ... More >>

Kinsen Noodles' ambiance outshines the food

Style over substance in Uptown

Gai Gai Thai brings feisty street fare to the farmers markets

Try Gai Gai Thai's green curry rice and Thai iced tea. ​On some of these summer days when it's been hot as Bangkok at 9 'o clock in the morning, we figure, Why try to beat it, when we can join it? Such weather is just an excuse to indulge in the Southeast Asian street eats of farmers' market ... More >>

Dengue Fever

Refreshments

Bogus sex trafficking studies are bad, actual sex trafficking is worse: Comment Of The Day

Click here for junk science​We took note yesterday that the Star Tribune ran with a story about child sex trafficking that relied on statistics we've proven to be thoroughly debunked. We didn't hear back from the reporter who penned the story, Bob von Sternberg, or Patricia Lopez, the paper's ... More >>

Loretta Lynn: Happy 73rd (75th? 79th?) Birthday!

​She's been secretive about the year, but on April 14th 1932, or '36, or maybe '38, Loretta Webb was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, and grew up the daughter of a coal miner first in a rustic mountain home with no electricity or water, and later in a four-room house down in the holler.

Tuan Pham fights to keep 7-foot Jesus statue on St. Paul bluff

The city says Tuan Pham's Jesus must come down off the mount.​The St. Paul Zoning Board says a 7-foot-tall statue of Jesus must come down off a bluff in the backyard of a St. Paul home. The owner, Tuan Pham, on the other hand, hopes the city council will see the light. "My neighbors, everyone ... More >>

Indochin now open on Grand Avenue

Indochin arrives on Grand Avenue.​Last month, sisters Ha Tu and Thu Nguyen, owners of the Que Nha restaurant at 849 University Avenue in St. Paul, opened a new restaurant, Indochin, at the nearby location of 1702 Grand Avenue. The Asian American Press reports that the Indochin menu will initi ... More >>

Disbanded Metro Gang Strike Force faces 118 claims

Zimmerman ReedRandy Hopper, the man who sued the Strike Force​Today is the deadline for filing claims against the disgraced and disbanded Metro Gang Strike Force, and so far 118 people have said the force extorted them.Lead plaintiff Zelaido Rivera Garcia won a $3 million settlement for the group ... More >>

Palomino's Last Call party and final week of happy hours

Soon the palomino shuts its doors.​Palomino825 Hennepin Ave.612.339.3800Happy Hours and Details:Sunday - Thursday, all day opening at 11 a.m.Friday - Saturday, 4-6 p.m., 10 p.m.-close$5 Signature cocktails, $4 House wine$4 Draft beers$4 Tuscan white bean dip, $6 Sicilian meatballs,$6 Potatoes gorg ... More >>

St. Paul's Hmong Village offers food galore! See our new slideshow.

Hmong Village, now open.​Walking through the new Hmong Village in St Paul's East Side is truly a unique experience. Like the Hmongtown Marketplace on Como and Marion, the sheer volume and variety of food is astonishing with 35 produce vendors and 17 restaurants. Endless bubble teas, medicinal herb ... More >>

Best new patios

Michelle LeonUptown Cafeteria's new Skybar is king!​We all have our favorite standbys for outdoor drinking and dining--W.A. Frost's lush garden patio, the busy sidewalk seats at French Meadow, or the Dennis Rodman-drawing roofdeck at Stella's. But have you checked out the breezy surrounds at t ... More >>

Top ten memorable celebrity twins

​This weekend twins, triplets, quads, and their families will make a pilgrimage to Twinsburg, Ohio for the Twins Days Festival. In deference to this celebration of multiples, we've put together a list of some of the most memorable twins. Some are famous because they're beautiful, others for th ... More >>

Jimmy Cliff

Top 10 forbidden foods

WikipediaDon't eat that: Dog meat cooking in Southeast Asia​ Earlier this week came news that a homeless man named Nathan J. Kittoe, in Madison, Wisconsin, was in trouble with police for attacking a woman in a local park for trying to stop him from killing a goose, which he was planning on hav ... More >>

Dawn Droulliard of Fabulous Catering: Chef Chat

courtesy of Dawn Drouillard​ Dawn Droulliard, chef and owner of Fabulous Catering, is not your average chef. Formerly a singer in the bands Interstate Judy and That's What You Get, Droulliard has a rocking style that has translated itself into her kitchen.After moving to the Twin Cities in 1991, D ... More >>

Policy and a Pint: Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around

Michele Bachmann's military chaplain prayer bill skunked out

​The theocrats never quit. One pet project: Turning the U.S. military into God's army. God's on our side, you see. And Rep. Michele Bachmann has just been skunked out in an attempt to further that project. The CD6 congresswoman tried to insert language -- without debate -- into a military spe ... More >>

Epic Beard Man's sister lives in Minnesota

The fight that made Epic Beard Man internet famous.​Thomas Bruso, a crazy old man who became internet famous for beating up a Lil Wayne lookalike on a San Francisco bus, has a sister who lives in Minnesota.Bruso became better known as "Epic Beard Man" after the video of his transit confrontation ... More >>

Fire in Lynnhurst, Film in North and a Fabulous Birthday

A photographic week in review, including pictures of the Lynnhurst Fire, homemade pastries and Beet Bloody Mary's.

Loring Kitchen and Ginger Hop: The hits and misses

Add these two to the long list of new Twin Cities restaurants

Japandroids

Bishop Allen

Earthdance

Ellen Hawley

Chino crosses a new line

MayDay Parade and Festival

Jim Chiles

Breakfast of Champions: 11/14

Festival of India

Bahala Na (Let It Go)

Reimagining Fusion

Cranberry curries and molotov mojitos: A whole new kind of Minnesota nice

Great Noodles, Hold the Poetry

Galleria Purgatory

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