Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

sorry, guys

Didn’t want to get too in the Mn weeds in the Weinstein thread, but suzy’s post there made me want to Google and check up on past Children’s Theater School offenders.

Didn’t realize that Jason McLean - owner of Varsity Theater, Loring Pasta Bar, Loring Cafe (where I spent time and did plays in the 90s), is on the run:

http://m.startribune.com/jason-mclean-ordered-to-pay-2-5m-in-children-s-theatre-case/455607843/

The Midwest is, in fact, fairly frequently written about, but almost always in a way that weirdly disclaims the possibility that it has ever been written or thought about before.

On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality

That was great

it was not bad

look i just think this belongs here

What's smoother than this? pic.twitter.com/uc1ykdyIV2

— Diddy (@Diddy) December 13, 2017

lol

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2017/12/13/super-bowl-zip-line-will-have-riders-gliding-100.html?ana=twt

Mayor-elect Jacob Frey, who currently represents Nicollet Island and downtown on the City Council, said he will be the first to cross the river.

I don't know if any of you guys ever check out concerts of The Messiah but the soprano in this is a friend of ours and is scary good:

https://content.thespco.org/events/holiday-concerts-handels-messiah-1718/

Now that Attorney General Lori Swanson isn't running for governor (or going to an August primary), candidate and state Rep. Erin Murphy calls on other candidates in the race to "honor the DFL endorsement." pic.twitter.com/MwwI63rDLz

— Briana Bierschbach (@bbierschbach) January 29, 2018

who does this help/hurt?

no idea!

my very surface read is that gov is kinda between coleman and walz but i really don't know.

the surface implication of the statement is that murphy is worried about being out-fund-raised, but i thought she was one of the movers and shakers anyway so i dunno

i'm getting CONSTANT coleman ads on facebork

https://i.imgur.com/277Mo22.png

NO

but the validation

we don't ~need~ the validation, man

...we merely crave it

we need it so hard

lol only two kinds of people

do they not understand how regional hubs work

Not Minneapolitans? Come on, people.

this is bad. it's bad.

omg is this his twitter

https://twitter.com/themoderngent

ffffffu

his picture, lol

#VAwine is happenin & delicious, but is it ageable?? Askd & answrd in my latest 4 @Decanter. https://t.co/lJLnXsehVx pic.twitter.com/8FHtYdcpvU

— TheModernGent (@themoderngent) May 22, 2017

still with the fin, ok

ok lol

Selling snowballs to tourists... genius.

Brianna Sudrla, center, of Chicago laughed after buying a "real Minnesota snowball" for from a vending machine in the alley behind the Hewing Hotel. Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune #SuperBowl #BoldNorth @StarTribune pic.twitter.com/Fxe9CRAddU

— Anthony Soufflé (@AnthonySouffle) February 1, 2018

ooh fun, look: a "local ratio"!

As you listen to the MPR request for funds remember how they treated Garrison Keillor.

— Phyllis Kahn (@PhyllisKahn) February 7, 2018

brb sending MPR some money

eh I do think keillor kind of got fucked

nah he's a fuckin creep

MPR interviewed nearly every person they could possibly interview, and they decided divorcing themselves from him was justified as far as I've read? I mean, this was the result after mediation:

On January 23, 2018, MPR reported further on the investigation after interviewing almost 60 people who had worked with Keillor. The story described other alleged sexual misconduct by Keillor, and a $16,000 payment to a woman who was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement to prevent her from talking about her time at MPR (she refused and never deposited the check).

He still has his Writer's Almanac thing, they just decided not to distribute it for him anymore.

yes, the initial public disclosure-response cycle of this thing was heavily colored by the station's relative tight-lipped approach about what they had found -- at first stated only 1 person complaining -- and keillor's description of 'putting a hand on a back'

more recently a fuller description of MPR's investigation and what they turned up looks a lot uglier

i want a venn diagram of keillor truthers, franken truthers and woody allen truthers. old white liberals can get pretty defensive, turns out!

I was impressed by how thoroughly MPR did it and how robust it seemed, at least from the outside

i was not aware of the more recent info, goole. that certainly changes things.

yeah i haven't seen much commentary giving them credit for this

xp the rundown is here

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/01/23/keillor-workplace

thx, adding to pocket

When I've felt the most estranged ever were the 1.5 years I lived in Minnesota, during college.

Maybe it's not a coincidence that this is where I am? (He wrote, knowing many local people read this board)

― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Saturday, February 17, 2018 3:24 PM (five hours ago)

what up

I'm doing the best I can

city's changing, man

Now accepting credit cards. Don’t hate us. Also, come enjoy this beautiful patio.

— Palmer’s Bar (@MplsPalmers) May 17, 2018

daaaaang

this is deeply sad

http://www.citypages.com/news/who-is-jimmy-robinson/483985811

http://www.startribune.com/hymie-s-records-a-famed-spot-for-vinyl-in-minneapolis-is-for-sale/489026981/

Just found out about this today. I hope the owners get their wish to sell it to someone who'll keep the store going, but I'm not sure how realistic that is.

Maybe my favorite record store. Irene is such a friendly, mild-mannered dog. I do hope they find someone to keep up the good work.

in case anyone's in the market, the house down the road from where i grew up is for sale

iirc no one actually lived in it when i was a kid, and it was known throughout the township as 'the castle'. trespassing there to merely see it was a rite of passage. i went there once with my friend and my dog and we rang a bell that was for some reason built into the west end of the building, and the groundskeeper came out and yelled at us. my dog got into it with his, and ultimately we high-tailed it out of there before he could call our parents. then we walked home along the railroad bed next to the river. this concludes my YA coming of age story.

http://www.citypages.com/arts/wanna-buy-a-whimsical-1920s-mini-castle-on-the-st-croix-river/494815311

that kitchen looks like it needs to be gutted and totally redone

does anyone remember that weird house in MN for sale that was like a bond villain lair? everything was pink and made of stones and mirrors and overstuffed with chinese characters everywhere. there was a thread on the modern radio board for it i believe

Does the booze come with it?

http://stmedia.startribune.com/images/ctyp-st-croix-mansion-11d.jpg

My MN hometown has a Frank Lloyd Wright house that’s been on the market for about three years.

"what was it like, moving to Minnesota?" pic.twitter.com/B3yk1l6wPD

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 6, 2018

https://www.twincities.com/2018/12/06/mark-dayton-this-isnt-how-i-planned-on-going-out-as-governor/

He said he will move into an apartment in Minneapolis after he vacates the Governor’s Residence in St. Paul. But when asked what he plans to do next, he replied, “I really don’t know.”

i like dayton... the video of him collapsing during his state of the state address was really fucking depressing. hope he rebounds

Terry Evans applies makeup to Reform Party candidate Jesse Ventura's head while Gubernatorial candidates Norm Coleman and Hubert Humphrey III prepare for their last debate at KTCA in St. Paul on Friday, Oct. 30, 1998. (@CarlosGphoto/@StarTribune) pic.twitter.com/8e1BX5Q0Yq

— Vintage Minnesota (@VintageMinn) December 20, 2018