North Shore Notes
Harry Drabik
The waking of spring is a return of scent replacing the chill of winter air made bone dry by sub-zero wringing everything from it.
Columns
Al Kammerer
Zombie apocalypses are for real. Those who study world threats can imagine zombies updated, alive and kicking.
The Gadfly
Ed Raymond
King George greeted Lindbergh and immediately pounced on him: “Now tell me Captain Lindbergh, There is one thing I long to know. How did you pee?”
Columns
Kristine Osbakken
“The world is here right now,” began organizer Morris Beegle, at the NoCo Hemp Expo held earlier this month in Loveland, Colorado.
From the Side
Forrest Johnson
Yes, there’s nothing better than creating jobs based on chronic illness. What a beautiful business model.
Columns
Loren Martell
For those who don’t know, Superintendent Gronseth tried to jump ship to a school district near the Twin Cities. Mr. G. ultimately failed to land the job, but did his best to escape from Duluthwhich should be less than reassuring to anyone
Nukewatch
John LaForge
These preparations have been going on underground for decades, and a few thousand hard-bitten nuclear-obsessed types have been crying ‘foul’ about it the whole while. I was in a holding cell full of them, and it was a relief to be there.
Columns
A.C. Hawley
I should say that while I do understand where the protestors are coming from, I do not support the destruction of public property because it distracts from the real issue is here: police discrimination.
Party of one
Melvyn Magree
Once upon a very bad time, market forces determined that a slave should work as many hours as the master required. These masters were so determined that they were right, they were willing to wage a bloody war to protect their interests.
The Lowdown
Jim Hightower
Whenever a corporation issues a statement declaring that it is committed to “treating consumers fairly and with respect,” chances are it’s not.
Beer Society
Jim Lundstrom
Looking for a beer to celebrate with a homemade Mexican meal on Cinco de Mayo, I passed on the Dos Equis and margarita in a bottle, and the Mexican lager aged in tequila barrels.
Natural Connections
Emily Stone
With the fluctuation in the numbers of charismatic megafauna came ups and downs for vegetation on the island, too. After the huge wolf crash due to parvovirus in the early 1980
The Masked Fan
Marc Elliott
It’s Sunday April 16th, 1972. Five of my neighborhood homeboys and I are sitting in a packed Met Sports Center with 15,000 plus of our closest hockey friends. We are sitting in 2nd level seats, but we are right on the center ice red line.
Sports
John Gilbert
It isn’t even necessary for the Twins to get off to a faltering start, or the Timberwolves to stumble to a place far removed from NBA playoff consideration. No, the Wild captured the state’s sport fancy completely on their own
Ramblings
Paul Ryan
I might as well be the creepy white guy in college who hangs with the foreign exchange students all day, pretending to teach them English.
Music Reviews
Paul Whyte
The term “experimental” gets thrown around quite a bit to describe something going on with music that is out of the norm or something that takes on a different approach.
Arts
Sam Black
I have yet to understand what attracts throngs of people to this 1970 musical, but the profit has certainly reaped rewards for its creators.
Duty to Warn
Gary G. Kohls, MD
In the last few decades since the “mysterious” autism epidemic began in the late 1980s, the giant pharmaceutical companies, free from the constraints of medico-legal liability, began pumping out more and more highly profitable vaccines
