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Doin’ Beers to quench the Fires of the Soul.
ArtCars, Birthday Suits, Lake Street Live: This Week’s Best Events
Plus the Minneapolis Aquatennial continues, a Longfellow corn roast, and tattooing in St. Paul.
Rock Is Back! Pilllar Forum, Mpls Reach Fire Code Agreement.
Plus Thomson Reuters hates your freedom, fears keeping local Muslims from making a pilgrimage, and canceled flights in today's Flyover news roundup.
This Twin Cities Yo-Yo Star Has Walked the Dog Around the World—and Probably Your School Gym
‘When you think Minnesota yo-yo, you think Dave.’
MPLS Piecycle Club Promotes Group Rides With Adorable Antidotes to AI Art
Creating community with a little help from cycling squirrels, dancing bears, and anthropomorphic loaves of bread.
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Tell Us About Your Unusual Hobby in This Week’s Open Thread
As we do every Friday, we're turning Racket over to you, the readers.
Freeloader Friday: 157 Free Things To Do This Weekend
Park festivals! World cup watch parties! Rock 'n' roll tees!
Love in the Age of Buckthorn: New Dating Group Seeks Romance, Annihilation of Invasive Species
Plus Mille Lacs v. Mille Lacs, Mpls rejects drones, and when not to call 911 in today's Flyover news roundup.
There Are Plenty of Movies to Watch This Week That Aren’t ‘The Odyssey’
Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.
I Rode Valleyfair’s Excalibur Rollercoaster Twice With Superfan Excalibur Michael
He rode it 70 more times that day.
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We siphoned every possible drop of Minnesota intel from Marcy Playground bassist Dylan Keefe.
In Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ Some Men Just Want to Watch Troy Burn
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Reader Comment of the Day
My weird hobby is only weird because of the medium: I grow stinging nettle to turn into fiber to turn into yarn to perhaps someday weave and then sew a garment. I also do the pokey invasive thistles but mostly just to do something with them after they get uprooted. It's the easiest gardening I do, and the most challenging fiber craft. I don't yet know exactly how to process and spin the fiber, but every attempt brings me closer to my lifetime goal: nettle denim pants.