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Plus Uptown Cheba Hut is alive, the Greenway turns 25, and we're prepping for the fair in today's Flyover news roundup.
"The past, current, and eternal king of Minnesota State Fair mini doughnuts will always be Tom Thumb – those spectacularly sweet, melt-in-your-mouth lil devils. The Donut Family, a longtime White Bear ...
It can't be, but it is—the fair starts on Thursday, which is way too soon. So from now till Labor Day, there'll be a bit of a ...
Plus reimagined Lake Hiawatha renderings, a new Edmund Fitz pod, and let's tour '90s Minnehaha Avenue in today's Flyover news ...
Next LV went to work for Jimmy Mills, owner of J-Klips on East Lake Street at the Hi-Lake Shopping Center. Mills became a ...
Angelo Gentile is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer and editor.
See that call for recommendations, the one a few lines above in the boilerplate, italicized intro? We take that shit seriously, man! Here's a memo that friend of Racket Daniel Suitor sent over the ...
Welcome to Event Horizon, your weekly roundup of the best events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and beyond. TUESDAY 8.19. 25th Anniversary Celebration of Because of Winn-Dixie with Kat ...
Jerry McAfee’s outbursts during a Minneapolis city council meeting last winter, along with his blustering and occasionally threatening online follow-ups, cost the North Side pastor his violence ...
"I'm proud of what the club has done for local comedy, which is all we've really ever tried to be about," CCU founder Bob Edwards tells Racket. "This ain't the last form of the club, so tell the local ...
Next Monday, August 18, it will be exactly four years since Racket published its first story, an all-hands feature called simply "24 Hours in Uptown." We're still pretty proud of it.