‘I Felt Like I Was There 90% of the Time’: An Oral History of the Dinkytowner Café
We talked to 56 people about the U of M-adjacent music venue/pool bar/Tex Mex joint that, for one wild decade, imprinted 'fuzzy memories' on a generation of patrons.
BYO Food to the Twins: Target Field Concessions Workers Plan to Strike
Plus the Hortman assassinations one year later, hilarious U of M marketing leaks, and a 68-year-old woman survives a terrifying mud trap in today's Flyover new roundup.
What Are People For? The Imperiled Boundary Waters, Late MN Nature Writer Paul Gruchow, and Me.
As mining villains creep closer to the BWCA, we look to the wisdom of Paul Gruchow.
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For This Week’s Open Thread, Tell Us What Beloved MN Institution or Event Is Behated by You
As we do every week, we're turning Racket over to you, the readers.
This Year’s Most Exciting Pride Event Is a Shakespeare Production
The Modern Rep’s queer interpretation of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ has its finger on the pulse, and it’s pressing hard.
Freeloader Friday: 191 Free Things To Do This Weekend
World Cup watch parties! Vintage shopping! Cemetery yoga! Movies in parks!
RacketCast, Ep. 54: The Art of Airfare Feat. Thrifty Traveler’s Kyle Potter & Gunnar Olson
I want to get away.
Happy Disclosure Day to All Who Celebrate (and Other Movies Worth Seeing)
Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.
Uptown! What Will Happen With Uptown? I’m So Worried About Uptown! Uptowwwwwwwn!
Plus a new publisher, Russian refugees, and Wisco-sexism in today's Flyover news roundup.
The Twin Cities Improv Festival Is Turning 20?! Yes, and It’s ‘Full of Headliners.’
It’s a milestone year for one of the Midwest’s longest-running improv fests.











