You like beer, you say? How about cheese, bikes or Queen? We’ve got you covered with our weekly planner, including Northeast Ride pictured above.
(Northeast Ride route map designed by local artist, Kevin Cannon)
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Side door at the Nook
Could use a burger about now.
On today’s Fresh Air: remembering Doc Watson. You can download his interviews on Fresh Air in 1988 and 1989 right here.
(via prairiehomecompanion)
President Barack Obama presented Bob Dylan with a Medal of Freedom yesterday. Check out our March issue, where we featured his long history in music and his relationship with Minnesota. Writer David Jarnstrom describes the younger Dylan this way: “a Medusa-like mass of hair atop a gaunt frame wrapped in smart blazers and skinny pants, sunken eyes ever obscured by Ray-Bans.” The sunglasses didn’t even come off as the president hung the medal around his neck. The more things change…
(See a slide show of the event over the The Stib.)
The 6th Annual Hole-in-the-Wall Guide, coming soon to a newsstand near you! While you’re waiting, check out last year’s guide.
Check out our interview with Ted Leo, who will be appearing with comedian Wyatt Cenac this Friday at the Fitzgerald Theater as part of Minnesota Public Radio’s storytelling-meets-music series Wits.
(Photo by Matias Corral)
Soundset: hot and stormy, but still tons o’ fun. Read our recap and check out our photo gallery from the 2012 festival.
Celebrate Bob Dylan’s 71st by revisiting our March feature about the Minnesota-born troubadour
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Surging vinyl-record sales (3.9 million units sold in 2011 according to the Nielsen Company, a whopping 36-percent increase from 2010) have not only helped sustain a bounty of record stores in the Twin Cities, they’ve also provided an opportunity for a pair of local 20-somethings to work their dream jobs: unearthing musical relics for a new generation of wax fetishists to enjoy.
Read more about Secret Stash in writer David Jarnstrom’s May feature here.
(Photo by Emily J. Davis)