Year End
Restaurants, Venues, Parks: 2024’s Biggest Union Headlines
Recapping the year's labor news, with updates aplenty.
The Year In Music 2024: Accepting Sadness as a Gift in the Age of the Oligarchs
In 2024, my favorite music didn't always prepare me for the fight ahead, but it always reminded me what was at stake.
The 40 Best Songs of 2024 (More or Less)
Plus 200 other songs from Minnesota and elsewhere on the year's final playlists.
RacketCast, Ep. 10: Year-End Movie Hot Takes feat. Taco Mike
Comment section celebrity Taco Mike joins Em Cassel and Keith Harris to hash out the year in Hollywood.
Some New Twin Cities Restaurants I Really Liked in 2024
The 12 new restaurants that most charmed and/or delighted Racket’s food and drink editor this year.
The 25 Best Non-Local Albums of 2024
From sad indie folk to oddball rap to vintage Afropop, here's what we'll still be listening to in 2025.
Our 28 Favorite Racket Stories of 2024
Another big year down at the ol' news/arts/culture journalism factory.
The 20 Most-Read Racket Stories of 2024
These articles attracted the most eyeballs in our third full year.
The 20 Best Movies of 2023
Dolls, genocide, child predators, multiverses, Jeff Goldblum as an alien—last year's movies really had it all.
