Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

(Which is to say they pulled the story after complaints: http://www.citypages.com/news/a-statement-from-city-pages-publisher/572618101)

yeah hopefully no one loses a job over that

Yeah, either of them left over there.

i didn't have a problem with that at all but winced a little knowing how it would be perceived and handled

Sid Hartman has died. I was so sure he'd outlive us all.

crazy run, unimaginable

Sports writer out in extra innings. He’d like that.

In other news, the owner of Fjrst Avenue during the Purple Rain years, Allan Fingerhut, died on Friday. He was in my mom’s graduating class in high school.

RIP city pages

Nooooooooooooooooooooo

It's felt like an inevitability for awhile now, but still hate to see the end of alternative weeklies here.

their stream of content really slowed dramatically the past month or so, not surprising but sad. i hope some 501c3 model could crop up in its place. minn post does great stuff as does minnesota reformer but there has to be something covering arts and culture...

A GoFundMe for staff has been launched:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/assistance-for-city-pages-staff

so i was driving down minnehaha in MPLS and saw a group of (adult) people in halloween costumes walking north, a few blocks from lake street. one of those people, i'm not making this up, was dressed as ... a burning auto zone building. like, for real ??

ugh

any twin cities folk have a tip for buying a pair of (used) hockey skates? it's been a few years. i thought maybe the play it again sports on snelling next to cheapo but idk

play it again probably

probably not used stuff there but there's an old school sporting goods store called Bill St. Mane's on 38th St by Buster's on 28th in South, got my daughter skates there, they do sharpening there too

http://www.stmanes.com/

good info, thanks!

Is there a sadder MN headline than this Y or N pic.twitter.com/NjaGnE80Ci

— Molly Priesmeyer (@mollypeonies) May 7, 2021

this is amazing

https://m.startribune.com/after-bitter-debate-minneapolis-to-cut-down-use-of-pesticides-in-parks/600068172/

damn that went places

merry xmas at the Guthrie!

First play at the Guthrie in over 600 days. Still hasn’t been kicked out. pic.twitter.com/II4d2XJKjs

— Jake (@ekajmw) November 13, 2021

Lol I saw that. Do you know the context? I couldn't really understand what she was mad about.

Props to the Tweeter in the mentions who called this A Christmas Karen.

Lol

Allegedly upset after the couple in the row in front of her took a selfie (the angle suggests it was a covert attempt to get her in the shot, so).

still nice to see a white woman can rage for 40+ minutes, spit on someone for telling her to put her mask on (which someone from Twitter says happened to their boyfriend), and be allowed to just...keep doing it.

to be fair they did have to wait for police I guess

Sounds like schizophrenia.

in which case I don't think I'd want police to handle

given what the Guthrie Theater I wouldn't imagine generally has much in the way of security or many problems with rowdy patrons

yeah, in past years (esp pre-pandemic) usually the worst most theatres nationwide had to deal w/ was people illegally taking pics with cell phones. don't know much about the Guthrie but I can see how this is something you don't exactly expect or immediately have an easy way of dealing with.

backing off my kneejerk reaction a bit

in my experience it's usually a nice senior citizen with a flashlight who show you to your seat is about the extent of it

Lmao

NEW: Republican Sen. Jim Abeler, who chairs the MN Senate human services reform committee, tells me he did not realize the new MN law allowing THC edibles would do just that. He thought it would just regulate delta-8 THC products, said the Legislature should roll the new law back

— Ryan Faircloth (@RyanFaircloth) June 30, 2022

We hear you. Tonight’s show has been cancelled at First Avenue and is moving to the Varsity Theater. See our full statement for more. pic.twitter.com/tkf7rz0cc7

— First Avenue (@FirstAvenue) July 20, 2022

Whew, we're in trouble here

What's up?

btw, I have a family member moving to minnesota so the possibility I'll need some recommendations or will be passing through seems likely

Just the biggest snowstorm since '91 lol

this is going to mentally break me

That it's happening now, with the inevitable 3 or 4 March/April snowstorms yet to come, is what's really spirit-crushing.

We're going to have snow on the ground into June.

oh god

I was absolutely done with snow weeks ago and we had a measly five inches last week and it made me sad.

best of luck

Even the low-end estimates are well over a foot, and those models are now the outliers

watched the local tv this morning and the most conservative model of the 7ish he showed on a graph was 14.5" :(

Minnesotans being fearfully aroused by incoming big blizzard, quel surprise! Seriously, though - stay safe.

(I got snowed-in helping take inventory at the much-missed Northern Lights in ‘91, until the owner turned up in 4WD to drive everyone home)

and to think The Beths have to travel into this

I’m only annoyed that this blizzard is going to make everyone talk about The Halloween Blizzard without eclipsing and replacing the Halloween Blizzard.

— Fentanyl Dusted Donut (@David_5mith) February 21, 2023

Ugh, here we are at the very much now annual April that is 90% winter, just not quite as extreme. I've had it with this place that only gets literally 14 weeks of acceptable weather per year.

Yeah, this winter/spring blows.

not a fan

i relocated from mpls to pdx last fall and it's been unseasonably wet and cold here, and people are complaining, it's hilarious because i've been keeping track of y'alls winter... weather like that was certainly one of the underlying motivations for the move

Lol I’ve made friends with someone who at the turn of the year moved from Portland to here, and just this week he meekly asked “so this winter’s been one of the worst, right?” While on paper, yes, it has been, I couldn’t tell him that every March and April here inevitably brings you to the same mental crisis