Walter Cronkite

Marilyn Hagerty wins journalism award, plans to review another Olive Garden soon

Marilyn Hagerty, the Grand Forks Herald restaurant reviewer whose writeup of a local Olive Garden went viral last spring, won the prestigious Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media for lifetime achievement last week."It was just overwhelming because other winners of the award were Walter ... More >>

Grand Forks Olive Garden reviewer, internet sensation Marilyn Hagerty to receive major journalism award

See also: Olive Garden review: the greatest restaurant review ever written The Grand Forks Herald restaurant writer whose homey review of a new Olive Garden created a weeks-long internet sensation will receive a prestigious national journalism award that has previously gone to such luminaries as Wa ... More >>

Minn. and nation's most trusted newscaster: Jon Stewart?

Time magazine conducted an unscientific poll of the nation's most trusted newscaster now that Walter Cronkite is dead and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart took the prize.

Hopefully when he's old enough, he'll choose CNN

Not Quite Ready for His Close-Up

A local prof rides the Gonzales Eight to fame, but there are holes in the research

Artists of the Year

Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

10/04: Morning Communique

Citizen Berquist: The Man with the Van

Who's counting?

Home of the Free and the Brave

Avant-garde epics, chamber jazz, and Streisand covers from David S. Ware and William Parker

A hill of Peanuts in this crazy world

Book 'Em

Lit 6 give a story-readin' lesson to the beer-drinkin' crowd

Radio Radio

We search the airwaves for signs of intelligent life

Off Beat

Who Wants to be a Senator?

Forget free trade with China, privatizing Social Security, and that pesky debate about campaign-finance reform. Here’s everything you really need to know about that gaggle of Minnesotans who are vying for a six-year stint in Washington.

Skirts Ahoy!

How the master of cheesecake art lifted a dress and uncovered an American madonna

Schoolhouse Talk

University lectures on tape may be the most middlebrow product since Reader's Digest. So what's wrong with that?

Making It Plain

Etched in Memory: 4 Little Girls.

The Franco-American War

It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Dealer (Robert Rosen, left) and Alligator Boy (Steven Epp) cavort with a puppet friend in a subterranean netherworld.