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Text • Keith Harris

All the Music at the Fair (and Everywhere Else) in Your Complete Concert Calendar: Aug. 25-31

All the Music at the Fair (and Everywhere Else) in Your Complete Concert Calendar: Aug. 25-31

Pretty much all the music you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.

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Text • Matt Clark

I Took the E Line From Southdale to St. Anthony Main and Watched 4 Movies in Less Than 12 Hours

I Took the E Line From Southdale to St. Anthony Main and Watched 4 Movies in Less Than 12 Hours

Bus Rapid Transit is a gift to Minneapolis filmgoers.

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Text • Jessica Armbruster

Anti-ICE Networks Pivot to Protecting Voters

Anti-ICE Networks Pivot to Protecting Voters

Plus Modern Times returns, RIP Chaz Millionaire, and depression is the real serial killer in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Keith Harris

Brunch Buds: We Went to Dumpling Eatery to (What Else?) Eat Dumplings

Brunch Buds: We Went to Dumpling Eatery to (What Else?) Eat Dumplings

If you've been craving great soup dumplings and/or a bathroom with a Robot Trashcan, have we got the place for you.

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Text • Racket Staff

MN State Fair, Racket Turns 5, Karmel Mall Cash Mob: This Week’s Best Events

MN State Fair, Racket Turns 5, Karmel Mall Cash Mob: This Week’s Best Events

Plus Ren Fest, Mizna at Baba's, and a Turf tribute to Shania Twain.

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Guess What Percentage of Minneapolis Households Are Carless. Wrong! Guess Again.

Guess What Percentage of Minneapolis Households Are Carless. Wrong! Guess Again.

Plus two restaurants bid adieu, a big b-ball shakeup, and an influencer finagles a way to the MN State Fair in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Stacy Brooks

Pungent Eats, Pride, and the Peculiar Pragmatic Promenade: A Visit to the Minnesota Garlic Festival

Pungent Eats, Pride, and the Peculiar Pragmatic Promenade: A Visit to the Minnesota Garlic Festival

Garlic ice cream, garlic kettle corn, garlic smoothies... this fest in Hutchinson has everything.

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Text • Keith Harris

Let’s Talk WFH in This Week’s Open Thread

Let’s Talk WFH in This Week’s Open Thread

As we do every Friday, we're turning Racket over to you, the readers.

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Text • Jessica Armbruster

Freeloader Friday: 134 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Freeloader Friday: 134 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Movies in parks, block parties, posters for teachers, and back-to-school events.

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Text • Keith Harris

On the Big Screen This Week: Poets Who Are Postal Workers, Writers Who Are Cooks

On the Big Screen This Week: Poets Who Are Postal Workers, Writers Who Are Cooks

Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.

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Text • Keith Harris

If the Strib Loves Ryan Winkler So Much Why Doesn’t It Marry Him

If the Strib Loves Ryan Winkler So Much Why Doesn’t It Marry Him

Plus vaccinations decline in MN, a win for the MVA, and all the latest data center news in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Em Cassel

State Fair Boots the Big Pepper, a Family-Run Biz for Nearly 50 Years

State Fair Boots the Big Pepper, a Family-Run Biz for Nearly 50 Years

They even had to hire someone to demolish the Pepper, which was a permanent structure on the fairgrounds until this year.

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Text • Em Cassel

If a Tree Falls in the City But Someone Replaces it, Will it Cover the Ground?

If a Tree Falls in the City But Someone Replaces it, Will it Cover the Ground?

Plus reviving the fourplex debate, where to find a photo booth, and mega-cheap My Chem tix in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Clare O'Connor

The Final Days Inside St. Paul’s Pig’s Eye Encampment

The Final Days Inside St. Paul’s Pig’s Eye Encampment

Racket interviewed over a dozen displaced residents, volunteers, and advocates to better understand the real-life impact of cities sweeping away those experiencing homelessness.

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Text • Jessica Armbruster

Defense Industry Booming in MN Thanks to… Rep. Betty McCollum?

Defense Industry Booming in MN Thanks to… Rep. Betty McCollum?

Plus orgs react to making the DHS surveillance list, teens prank a republican, and a big thanks from us in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Keith Harris

We’ve Got Miles of Music in Your Complete Concert Calendar: Aug. 18-24

We’ve Got Miles of Music in Your Complete Concert Calendar: Aug. 18-24

Pretty much all the music you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.

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Text • Makenzi Johnson

MN Street Style: OK Little Trinket Market

MN Street Style: OK Little Trinket Market

"It’s not worth your thighs chafing or your feet hurting to wear something cute. But if you’re just going somewhere pretty casual or you won’t be standing too long, wear the outfit. Life’s too short." 

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Text • Leif Pettersen

Job Hunting After 50: 18 Months, 0 Interviews, Ageism Supercharged by AI

Job Hunting After 50: 18 Months, 0 Interviews, Ageism Supercharged by AI

Yep, it's rough out there.

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Text • Jay Boller

3M Paid Expert Witness $475/Hour to Use ChatGPT to Defend Company in Major Explosion Lawsuit

3M Paid Expert Witness $475/Hour to Use ChatGPT to Defend Company in Major Explosion Lawsuit

Plus an eyebrow-raising group home impresario, trans sports hysteria debunked, and Frey busts a move in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Em Cassel

5 Things to Know About Bill’s Bait Shop, Centro Restaurant Group’s Northwoods Nostalgia Bomb

5 Things to Know About Bill’s Bait Shop, Centro Restaurant Group’s Northwoods Nostalgia Bomb

Good decor and great walleye in south Minneapolis.

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Text • Racket Staff

Sound for Silents, Midwest Black Book Fair, Nut Roll Candy Bike Ride: This Week’s Best Events

Sound for Silents, Midwest Black Book Fair, Nut Roll Candy Bike Ride: This Week’s Best Events

Plus a mile of free music in Minneapolis. Yes, even in this economy.

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Wanna Buy the CC Club, Legendary Minneapolis Dive Bar?

Wanna Buy the CC Club, Legendary Minneapolis Dive Bar?

Plus more DHS devilry, an ode to Sea Salt, and Swede Hollow Cafe goes reverse brick-'n'-mortar in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Macie Rasmussen

New DJ Collective Body High Brings Queer, Femme Partiers to the Dance Floor 

New DJ Collective Body High Brings Queer, Femme Partiers to the Dance Floor 

What started as a one-off show has become a monthly residency for upcoming DJs, Starthirl, TECHNODOLL, Jamila, and Girl Blunt

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Text • Keith Harris

Time for a ‘What Are You Listening to?’ Open Thread

Time for a ‘What Are You Listening to?’ Open Thread

As we do every Friday, we're turning Racket over to you, the readers.

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Text • Jessica Armbruster

Freeloader Friday: 141 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Freeloader Friday: 141 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Porchfest, tons of back-to-school freebies, a pool party for dogs, and an Oktoberfest in August.

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Text • Em Cassel

Taking Names, Recording Plates: How Feds Spied on MN Protesters, Groups During Metro Surge

Taking Names, Recording Plates: How Feds Spied on MN Protesters, Groups During Metro Surge

Plus Pillsbury goes Hollywood, more Flock backlash, and Minneapolis's excellent transit infrastructure in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Keith Harris

On the Big Screen This Week: Meta-Slasher Queerness, Dinosaurs in Suburbia, Jeff Daniels as Reagan

On the Big Screen This Week: Meta-Slasher Queerness, Dinosaurs in Suburbia, Jeff Daniels as Reagan

Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.

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Text • Patrick Strait

Pro Wrestler The Freakshow CHO First Fought Social Anxiety. Now He’s Ready for the Ring.

Pro Wrestler The Freakshow CHO First Fought Social Anxiety. Now He’s Ready for the Ring.

"The more I embraced my comfort with being nonbinary, the more comfortable I felt adding that layer of androgyny into the character.”

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Money Journal: 1 Week in Minneapolis’s West Maka Ska Neighborhood on $482 Per Week Unemployment Benefits

Money Journal: 1 Week in Minneapolis’s West Maka Ska Neighborhood on $482 Per Week Unemployment Benefits

How far do the dollars of a laid-off editorial worker go?

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Text • Jessica Armbruster

MN Democrats Vote Resoundingly to End Angie Craig’s YouTube Ads

MN Democrats Vote Resoundingly to End Angie Craig’s YouTube Ads

Plus Frey's budget proposal, a new queer publication, and MN's new pro volleyball team in today's Flyover news roundup.