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Text • Em Cassel

Normal, Decent, Healthy Country Sends St. Paul Somali Asylum Seeker to Guantanamo

Normal, Decent, Healthy Country Sends St. Paul Somali Asylum Seeker to Guantanamo

Plus immigrant businesses struggle post-OMS, some alliterative food news, and a new owner for the Woman’s Club building in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Deborah Copperud

Can a Super-Cute Kids’ Book Save Lizzo’s Career? (Plus 4 More Books for Young Readers.)

Can a Super-Cute Kids’ Book Save Lizzo’s Career? (Plus 4 More Books for Young Readers.)

An important Indigenous story by Ashley Fairbanks, a true story about a bison, and more new books from MN (and MN-adjacent) authors.

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Text • Jay Boller

We Must Abolish the New Skyride Ads at the Minnesota State Fair

We Must Abolish the New Skyride Ads at the Minnesota State Fair

Plus forever chemical podcasts, State Fair food review aggregation, and school start time debates in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Keith Harris

Get Autumnal With Your Complete Concert Calendar: Sept. 8-14

Get Autumnal With Your Complete Concert Calendar: Sept. 8-14

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

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Text • Racket Staff

Greenway Glow, Cedarfest, TC Maker Fest: This Week’s Best Events

Greenway Glow, Cedarfest, TC Maker Fest: This Week’s Best Events

This week is stacked, y'all!

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Text • Maddie Mullikin

Pay-to-Play Youth Soccer ‘Is About Entitlement and Money.’ 2 MN Leagues Are Emphasizing Affordability, Fun.

Pay-to-Play Youth Soccer ‘Is About Entitlement and Money.’ 2 MN Leagues Are Emphasizing Affordability, Fun.

Sol of the Cities Futsal League and La Liga de Sueños aim to solve youth soccer's 'lightning-rod issue.'

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RacketCast, Ep. 60: How Labor Wins Feat. Workday Magazine Journalists Sarah Lazare & Amie Stager

RacketCast, Ep. 60: How Labor Wins Feat. Workday Magazine Journalists Sarah Lazare & Amie Stager

It's true: There's power in a union.

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Text • Jay Boller

Remembering the Time Gloria Steinem Delivered a Homily at St. Joan’s in South Minneapolis

Remembering the Time Gloria Steinem Delivered a Homily at St. Joan’s in South Minneapolis

Plus GOP AI slop, a new football pod, and your State Fair moment of zen in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Keith Harris

We’re Doin’ Something a Little Different for Our Annual Labor Day Open Thread

We’re Doin’ Something a Little Different for Our Annual Labor Day Open Thread

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

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Text • Seth Roeser

Muppet Masturbation, the Vietnam War, and Grandma’s Letters: Minneapolis’s Raunchiest Puppeteer to Perform in National Puppet Slam

Muppet Masturbation, the Vietnam War, and Grandma’s Letters: Minneapolis’s Raunchiest Puppeteer to Perform in National Puppet Slam

Dominique Herskind takes her heartfelt adult comedy ‘1969’ to Atlanta.

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Text • BUMP OPERA

Enjoy 43 Lovely Portraits of Minnesotans Thriving at the 2026 MN State Fair

Enjoy 43 Lovely Portraits of Minnesotans Thriving at the 2026 MN State Fair

At the Great Minnesota Get-Together, humanity shines as bright as the midday Midway sun.

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Text • Jessica Armbruster

Freeloader Friday: 102 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Freeloader Friday: 102 Free Things To Do This Weekend

Plus 61 free shows to see at the fair.

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Text • Em Cassel

Trump’s DOJ Stopped Shooting Charges Against ICE Agent

Trump’s DOJ Stopped Shooting Charges Against ICE Agent

Plus the shooting in Loring Park, the patriarchal pastor behind Pete Hegseth, and one nice thing in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Keith Harris

On the Big Screen This Week: Crooked Italians, Funny Fascism, and Billy Wilder

On the Big Screen This Week: Crooked Italians, Funny Fascism, and Billy Wilder

Pretty much every movie you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.

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Text • Jessica Armbruster

Weed Weviews: Four Things I Tried in August

Weed Weviews: Four Things I Tried in August

We've got some legit weed in here, folks.

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Text • Keith Harris

Operation Metro Surge Gets the New Yorker Treatment

Operation Metro Surge Gets the New Yorker Treatment

Plus a new OMS documentary, a corn supplier passes, and sketches from the fair in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Lily Osler

A Paean to Ye Old Mill, the Minnesota State Fair’s Worst (and Best) Ride

A Paean to Ye Old Mill, the Minnesota State Fair’s Worst (and Best) Ride

Touted as the 'original tunnel of love,' the 111-year-old attraction makes you believe you've accidentally trespassed into the formless land that lies beneath hell itself. Here's why we love it.

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Buy the Racket Book at Moon Palace

Buy the Racket Book at Moon Palace

Our first-ever print product is available in-store now.

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Text • Jerard Fagerberg

How Michelob Golden Light Became Minnesota’s Signature Summer Beer

How Michelob Golden Light Became Minnesota’s Signature Summer Beer

Our state's go-to macro lager is more than a lawnmower beer: It’s a testament to the quirks of Minnesotan life.

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Text • Jessica Armbruster

Politics and Minneapolis: It’s In Our Blood?

Politics and Minneapolis: It’s In Our Blood?

Plus a new budget calculator, more chudmaxxing, and toilet dreams dashed in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Keith Harris

Raptember Begins, State Fair Concludes in Your Complete Concert Calendar: Sept. 1-7

Raptember Begins, State Fair Concludes in Your Complete Concert Calendar: Sept. 1-7

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

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Text • Em Cassel

Saffron Returns, Bauhaus Is Back, and Tom’s Thai Opens in Uptown

Saffron Returns, Bauhaus Is Back, and Tom’s Thai Opens in Uptown

Plus Stargazer shifts focus, Barrel Theory is taking over Lake Monster Brewing, and much more in the August Racket Restaurant Roundup.

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Text • Jay Boller

MN State Fair Art: AI Butter Sculptures, Political Doxxing, and Viral Chudmaxxing

MN State Fair Art: AI Butter Sculptures, Political Doxxing, and Viral Chudmaxxing

Plus the toll of OMS, national flowers for Oliva Miles, and buy the Racket book in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Text • Nissa Mitchell

Doin’ Minnesota State Fair Beers 2026: The Best and Worst of the Year’s New Beers

Doin’ Minnesota State Fair Beers 2026: The Best and Worst of the Year’s New Beers

The return of Racket's Slurp!, Shrug, Skip beer rating system.

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Vegan Night Market, Dolly Happy Hour, Week 2 at the Fair: This Week’s Best Events

Welcome to Event Horizon, your weekly roundup of the best events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and beyond.  Magic at the MN State Fair MONDAY 8.31 Minnesota State Fair Minnesota State Fairgrounds Let’s send off summer with the most epic goodbye possible: At the Great M...

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RacketCast, Ep. 59: Emergency 2026 MN State Fair New Food/Drink Roundtable!

RacketCast, Ep. 59: Emergency 2026 MN State Fair New Food/Drink Roundtable!

Is it the Year of the Sausage, the Year of Skin, the Year of Bao, or something else entirely? We discuss.

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Happy Birthday, Racket

Happy Birthday, Racket

In today's Flyover news roundup we we reflect on five years and give thanks to you, dear reader.

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Text • Abraham Teuber

Is There an End to the Story of Jacob Wetterling?

Is There an End to the Story of Jacob Wetterling?

A new documentary implicates the tales Minnesotans have told about the boy’s disappearance for 37 years.

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Text • Keith Harris

Time for the Annual Obligatory State Fair Open Thread

Time for the Annual Obligatory State Fair Open Thread

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

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Text • Em Cassel

The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair

The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair

The return of our peerless, pitiless Scarf!, Shrug, Skip system.