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Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Cu*%$nt

Minnesota Public Radio and The Current are my perennial betes noire. Their hyper-commercial, mercenary approach to public radio flies in the face of everything I like about listener-supported media. Now City Pages reports that 89.3 is shrinking its playlist, preventing its DJs (already a bunch of myopic canon-wankers) from deviating from the hits. Says Mark [...]

Crash Glass

Since my stained glass classes back in November, I’ve cranked out a handful of “sun catchers” (*cringe*) and other small experiments based on my own designs. For my first piece of significant scale, completed just last week, I tried to fulfill a long-standing debt (or just ease my own mind about it). During my meandering [...]

The Haves Have Press

My home-boy Kelly’s band got a glowing profile in the City Pages anticipating their CD release party on Friday. I’m psyched for them! On transcending girl-band stereotypes: In the face of their soaring melodies and the fearless, indefatigable profile they strike while playing live, gender is immaterial. Ol’ Melrude and I laid out the album [...]

“Leaving behind the trucker hat”

Why does the so-called trucker hat remain the journalistic symbol of hipsterdom par excellence? Get over it! It was not always so.