If you liked, “What’s the Past Tense of “Sight-See?” here’s another: what’s the plural form of ‘stir-fry?’ Somehow, “stir-fries” — as in, “this restaurant specializes in ‘stir-fries'”– just doesn’t sound right . . . . P.S.: the past tense of “sight-see” in fact appears to be “went sight-seeing.” Want one more? If you’re one of the...Read More
From Receding Glacier to . . . Pile of Dirty Snow With local temp’s finally breaking into the 70’s, winter is beating a quick retreat from the Twin Cities. What’s left — at least temporarily — is akin to the world’s largest bathtub ring: residual mountains of snow and crud in the corner of any...Read More
Hits, Misses . . . and Sleepers If you haven’t seen the splashy cover in the grocery checkout line, the May issue of Minnesota Monthly features the eye candy-ish title, “Eat, Drink, Shop & Play: 12 Best Neighborhoods to Explore Now!” With the caveat that the list is divided into eight Winners and four Up-and-Comer’s, how...Read More
Adolescent ( and Adult) Trivial Pursuits If you were a kid long enough ago, you remember the game of looking for — and occasionally finding — change at the bottom of a pay phone (remember those?). That was an especially popular way to kill a little time at an airport, museum, or virtually any other...Read More
And Best Deal, Too! There’s probably no way to categorically establish which Twin Cities brownie (store-bought, at least) is best. And, this is sure to rankle high-end, local bakeries such as Rustica and Turtle Bread — not to mention incite passions amongst especially opinionated brownie connoisseurs (I qualify). But, my candidate for the best local...Read More
The “TINA” Stock Market: More Record Highs “As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance.” –Former Citigroup CEO Charles Prince; July, 2007 Investors who remember what happened the last time the music stopped are — to put it mildly — ambivalent as they watch major stock indices march ever-higher...Read More
