Jessica Armbruster

Freeloader Friday: 90 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Pop-up markets, book sales, music in parks, and festivals for hot dogs, THC, and the '90s.

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September 13, 2024

Parked Car Allegedly Enrages Shelter’s Neighbors

Plus the Honeycrisp inventor retires, Trump owes St. Cloud a lot of money, and Sun Country loses Eau Claire contract in today's Flyover news roundup.

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September 11, 2024

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Freeloader Friday: 80 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Back-to-school shopping, bike rides, and plenty of parking lot parties abound.

September 6, 2024

MN GOP Hires Bad Simile Maker for Social Outreach

Plus North Siders unsure about the Blue Line, 100-year-old fish thrive, and Jimmy John comes to town in today's Flyover news roundup.

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September 5, 2024

Freeloader Friday: 93 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Welp. Now it's really last call for summer, folks.

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August 30, 2024

Why Restaurants Are Unionizing: Unattributed Speculation Edition

Plus anti-choice teens, all about corn sweat, and last night's storm in today's Flyover news roundup.

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August 27, 2024

Drugs

Weed Weviews: 4 Things I Tried in August

Four bubblies in four very different flavors.

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August 27, 2024

Food & Drink

The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2024 Minnesota State Fair

This town's most discerning review crew is back with the only fair food takes you can trust.

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Em Cassel, Jay Boller, Keith Harris, Jessica Armbruster, Ian Power-Luetscher, and Joel Swenson

August 23, 2024

Freeloader Friday: 87 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Birthday parties! Open Streets on Lyndale! Free music inside the fair!

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August 23, 2024

Tiananmen Tim? Desperate GOP Tries to Pin Walz Down as Red China Sleeper Agent.

Plus a #pizzagate believer runs for judge, St. Paul's spendy fire truck, and why Jesse Ventura's not going to the fair this year in today's Flyover news roundup.

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