Skip to Content

Em Cassel

Em Cassel (she/they) is a cyclist, a metalcore apologist, and a co-owner and editor of Racket.

J. Selby’s Closes Indoor Dining Again

A vegan canary in the coal mine?

September 20, 2021

9 Pandemic-Closed Restaurants With a Chance to Make a Comeback

If Butcher and the Boar can do it, why not others?

September 20, 2021

Good Times Pizza Really Is a Good Time

Justice for pepperoni and pickle pizza.

September 16, 2021

Public Safety Ballot Question Blocked Again

Plus rent-control ballot measures and Noor's murder conviction reversal in today's Flyover.

September 15, 2021

Is ‘Shorts and Sweatshirt’ a ‘Good Look?’ [POLL]

Consider that to vote 'no' is Midwest cultural erasure.

September 14, 2021

Minnesota’s Moose Are Dying

Plus Elder's resignation and the state's first Native American poet laureate!

September 10, 2021

Putting MN’s Breakthrough COVID Cases in Context

Plus new language for the ballot question and the State Fair's lowest attendance in four decades.

September 8, 2021

You Know, More Restaurants Could Do This

Who is Labor Day really for?

September 7, 2021

Palmers, Part Wolf Among Growing Number of Vax-Required Local Venues

Mortimers, The Ordway, the Guthrie, State Theatre, Pantages, the Orpheum... more and more rooms are requiring vaccines.

September 3, 2021