The Great Gatsby

The Brown Derby at The Lowry: A toast-worthy drink of the week

Brown Derby The Lowry $7 Maybe it's this celebratory time of the season, weddings and big graduation ceremonies, cigars and steak house celebration dinners; maybe we've just seen The Great Gatsby one too many times. Whatever the reason we're feeling very "old boy's club" in the best possible, non-g ... More >>

Cannes Diary: What Are the Women in their Dresses Hoping For?

Fondly, Collette Richland

Best Of the Twin Cities 2013: Music categories

Yes, ladies and gents, the Best of the Twin Cities for 2013 is live all over the City Pages website. And the issue -- which takes gilded inspiration from The Great Gatsby -- will hit stands Wednesday.Gimme Noise has compiled links to the music category winners below. Take a gander!

City Pages' Best of the Twin Cities party is coming

"In my younger and more venerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' So begins The Great Gatsby, ... More >>

Twins avoid trading; hope AL Central concedes

​ As the trade deadline came and went, the Twins chose to do... nothing. This lack of news has everyone talking, almost literally--nearly every blog, every paid scribe, ESPN, etc. have weighed in on the Twins failing to move. Or successfully avoiding a trade, if that's how you choose to spin the ... More >>

Twins trying to make 2011 twice as interesting as 2010

Keith AllisonNick Blackburn was one of the few bright spots this weekend.​ Let me sum up the Twins' futility this way: After Toronto's Jose Bautista launched his fifth home run this series on Sunday (and third that game), he came within two of matching the Twins entire team output. The Twins ... More >>

Bob Stalberger scalps Twins tickets to finance wedding

City PagesThe Twins need to win so a Wayzata couple can afford to tie the knot.​It's a simple law of baseball economics: No matter how new the stadium, the prices of a ticket on the black market--legal or otherwise--increases or decreases with the team's fortunes. When the Twins are doing we ... More >>

Adventure's Benny Boeldt on video games and his new album

​Adventure's self-titled, 2008 debut proffered spiraling, pleasure-center jamming synth-pop capable of titillating anyone who wasted weekends in the late 1980s or early 1990 sprawled out before a NES-enabled television monitor, piloting colorfully pixellated blurbs through one ominously cute, cute ... More >>

Jungle Theater's "Glass Menagerie" is a zoo of quiet horrors

by Michal DanielA flickering flame: Wendy Lehr and Alayne Hopkins in "The Glass Menagerie"​There are some works of art that tend to get thrown at us, if not too early, at least too early for us to understand their full resonance. You can read The Great Gatsby when you're 14, but you'll only grasp ... More >>

Farming for Federal Dollars

Meet the Minnesotans who receive subsidies for not growing anything

Really Fine Dining

St. Paul's newest fine dining restaurant, a rebours, blends the art of bakery on Grand with a finesse all its own

Is Brainerd the New Napa?