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The Weedeater: Smashed-adilla

It’s time we right one of the many, many wrongs of the Minnesota State Fair’s new foods list.

September 3, 2025

Strib’s Pistol-Packing, Raw-Milk-Drinking Columnist Lectures Grieving City on Gun Debate Decorum

Plus rejected fair art, annoying U of M guests, and fair facts galore in today's Flyover news roundup.

September 2, 2025

MN Street Style: Minnesota State Fair

Practicality and fashion interplay in these end-of-summer looks.

September 2, 2025

Taste of Greece, Vintage in NE, Travail Turns 15: This Week’s Best Events

Plus the Doobie Dabbler, queer artists, and a butterfly party.

September 2, 2025

Best Budget Bites: $3.75 Happy Hour Tacos From Pizza Luce Duluth

Racket's Twin Ports nightlife correspondent files a tantalizing taco recommendation.

September 2, 2025

Ski-U-Marketing: University of MN Shells out $15M for ‘Vital’ New Tagline Options

Plus right-wing prayer-mongering, 4-H kids in love, and a Deftones throwback in today's Flyover news roundup.

August 29, 2025

In Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest,’ It’s the Children Who Are Wrong

Lee's remake of Kurosawa's 'High and Low' is distracted from the action by generational grudges and a love for New York.

August 29, 2025

Walz’s Dubious U of M Board Regent Choices Are the Last Thing We Need

The guv acquired a rare opportunity to hand-pick University of Minnesota leadership. It seems he stacked the deck with loyalists.

Here’s All the Non-State Fair Food News You Missed This Month

A very abbreviated edition of the Racket Restaurant Roundup.

August 29, 2025