“It’s not even a matter of coming in and letting your hair down. We don’t ever really have to have our guard up. This is where the freaks hang out. Here, we don’t think you’re freaky. You’re just one of us.”
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“It’s not even a matter of coming in and letting your hair down. We don’t ever really have to have our guard up. This is where the freaks hang out. Here, we don’t think you’re freaky. You’re just one of us.”
Perfect day to say something like "TGIF."
We've already received a pitch to cover this!
In today's Flyover news roundup...
'Cream of the Crop: A Minnesota Folk Art Showcase' comes to Mia later this week.
Huh!
If you saw the line for crop art at the Minnesota State Fair this year and said, “to hell with all that,” you still have a chance to check out some of the best pieces.
“I want to work around the Midwest and go through the stage of my career where I do a bunch of shows for two weeks, then come back with less money than I started with.”
just saw that blaha won't seek reelection in 2026.... never forget....
Now's your chance for dome living inside the city. racketmn.com/wanna-buy-an...
In today's Flyover news roundup:
Our advice columnist is BACK.
picture of my grandmother, who built this home, in 1983 with gloria steinem (notice her shirt lol)
Dome, sweet, dome!
Our THC chef took a State Fair dud and weed-ified it.
In today's Flyover news roundup... racketmn.com/stribs-pisto...
Style-spotting at the fair. racketmn.com/mn-street-st...
This is why I subscribe to @racketmn.com
Quite frankly? It's a fun week. racketmn.com/taste-of-gre...
Let's kick off Rocktember right.
Yeah I’m a @racketmn.com simp but you’re not getting regular analysis like this anywhere else.
Racket's Twin Ports nightlife correspondent files a tantalizing taco recommendation. racketmn.com/best-budget-...
Plus rejected fair art, annoying U of M guests, and fair facts galore in today's Flyover news roundup:
more articles about fashion at state fairs!!!!
Practicality and fashion interplay in these end-of-summer looks:
HMM, we'll figure this out over email!
Congrats to @kevinfarner.bsky.social! Please email jay@racketmn.com ASAP to claim your tickets!
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did some journalism for @racketmn.com 🌮
Wow! What a week!
Racket's Twin Ports nightlife correspondent files a tantalizing taco recommendation.
Lee's remake of Kurosawa's 'High and Low' is distracted from the action by generational grudges and a love for New York. racketmn.com/in-spike-lee...
The guv acquired a rare opportunity to hand-pick University of Minnesota leadership. It seems he stacked the deck with loyalists. racketmn.com/walzs-dubiou...
A very abbreviated edition of the Racket Restaurant Roundup. racketmn.com/heres-all-th...
Grape soda FTW this month. racketmn.com/weed-weviews...
Can you 1) brunch 2) at the fair 3) with a three-year-old in tow? Read on and learn! racketmn.com/the-brunch-b...
A new biography sheds light on Hoover's life in the wilderness. racketmn.com/helen-hoover...
5 great new local songs, 5 songs from everywhere else, and 1 rancid dud. racketmn.com/better-late-...
'I want to bring respect back to Minneapolis comedy for the non-famous,' says Katzner, whose Redman collab hit shelves last week. racketmn.com/mns-ben-katz...
Including this year’s big talker—Pryes’ Royal Raspberry soft serve. racketmn.com/doin-minneso...
How far do the dollars of a 32-year-old project manager go? racketmn.com/money-journa...
Armed with a crossbow and notepad, our reporter endures mud, nasty burritos, worse comedy, white samurais, and elusive candle shops in pursuit of her elvish destiny.
a friend of mine very sweetly said this piece read like something that would have been on a Gawker Media website in like 2013, which is especially high praise considering that that's sort of where i learned to write!! give it a read :)
This is today at Arbeiter Brewing. There will be momos. Stop by and say hi!
Will the Strib tell you about all 25 new beers at the fair and how they got a gentlemanly duckstronaut with one? No. But they will apparently tell you about things they sniffed. Which, ngl, would be kind of rad as a @racketmn.com article.
In today's Flyover news roundup... racketmn.com/ski-u-market...
Lee's remake of Kurosawa's 'High and Low' is distracted from the action by generational grudges and a love for New York. racketmn.com/in-spike-lee...
The guv acquired a rare opportunity to hand-pick University of Minnesota leadership. It seems he stacked the deck with loyalists. racketmn.com/walzs-dubiou...
Direct quote from my kiddo who is an incoming Sophomore, "they're all ass"
Let's chat. racketmn.com/summers-almo...
A very abbreviated edition of the usually sprawling Racket Restaurant Roundup. racketmn.com/heres-all-th...
TGIF.
These new options make "Driven to Discover" sound like the work of Shakespeare...
Spike and Denzel, old men yelling at clouds, can't come close to Kurosawa's.
Should Walz have stacked the deck with his alleged cronies instead of making picks that would have actually benefitted the U? We already have an easy answer for that. The question of how we get better picks next time is more interesting.
This article rocks. Friends, I cackled out loud to some of the passages.
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As we do every week at this time, we're turning Racket over to you, the readers.
Armed with a crossbow and notepad, our reporter endures mud, bad burritos, worse comedy, white samurais, and elusive candle shops in pursuit of her elvish destiny.
TGIF is all we gotta say.
In today's Flyover news roundup... racketmn.com/looking-back...
Can you 1) brunch 2) at the fair 3) with a three-year-old in tow? Read on and learn! racketmn.com/the-brunch-b...
How far do the dollars of a 32-year-old project manager go?
In today's Flyover news roundup
Why would you serve people scraps of pie crust?
This week, skip the new releases.
an underrated part of the state fair food guide that @racketmn.com did is that tim walz got a writing credit for reviewing the bison meatball sub
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Wow: another new Money Journal! Please email me about creating your own: jay@racketmn.com.
Need a lil something to take the edge off?
To conquer this creature, first, I would need to grow to understand—nay, love—it. I would need to Become Elf.
A Very Special Episode of Brunch Buds
You demanded more Money Journal and we heard ya.
The Buds encounter corn propaganda for tots, learn about black cat boyfriends on the bus, and even eat a thing or two.
Gift link (fyi for non-locals, the Racket is our excellent online arts paper): racketmn.com/everything-w...
IT'S FINALLY OUT!! I'm very proud of this piece, which had me wearing elf ears in the service of JOURNALISM!!
In today's Flyover news roundup:
A new biography sheds light on Hoover's life in the wilderness.
With a crossbow and notepad, our reporter endures mud, bad burritos, worse comedy, white samurais, and elusive candle shops in pursuit of her elvish destiny.
In today's Flyover news roundup...
If this is the first you’re hearing of Hoover… well, you’re not alone.
What I did not expect, while trudging through three-inch-deep mud and crowds of elves in a desperate multi-hour search for a store called Junque In Thy Trunque, was to be thinking about whether or not the Enlightenment was in fact a good thing.
Visited the fair today and the GOAT is still crushing it.
5 great new local songs, 5 songs from everywhere else, and 1 terrible rancid dud.
Plus Hope Walz in the Times, a family living on the fairgrounds, and Uptown's Matriarch closes in today's Flyover news roundup:
Cheapest beer at the fair 👍
5 great new local songs, 5 songs from everywhere else, and 1 rancid dud:
everyone say thank you to @nissamitchell.com for drinking one million beers! (ok 25, but still)
Ahem... racketmn.com/how-to-write...
Hot off the "press" we've got this week's music listings:
“I want to bring respect back to Minneapolis comedy for the non-famous.”
Our beer columnist tried 'em all.
In today's Flyover news roundup...
Hey! You! Do you want to know about the Minnesota State Fair’s new beers for 2025? You do? Well, step right this way down good old @racketmn.com alley.
Arm yourself with knowledge.
Plus a free show from the Suburbs at Excelsior Commons Park, Llama Fest at Textile Center, a Mini Food Truck Fair at Heavy Rotation Brewing, and a whole lot more!
Let's talk fair. racketmn.com/what-else-it...
Real fairgoers are listening to this on the way to fairgrounds. racketmn.com/racketcast-e...
Let's review the tape. racketmn.com/the-best-new...
After his business burned, Lamberto Vergara expanded and refocused on teaching. racketmn.com/barbershop-e...