December 2008
72 posts
In the Kitchen at Parties. →
I am proud to introduce my brother Nate’s new food blog.
In this initial installment, see him paint a prose picture of stuffing a Cornish game hen (“just because it’s called a ‘hen’ doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a female. A lesson I’m sure we’ve all learned the hard way at least once or twice”) full of chicken livers and braunschweiger,...
Katy Perry and Iggy Pop get together for Kreate...
Another year-end list for you to enjoy. →
My five top visual arts highlights for 2008, mostly pertaining to Minneapolis. But not entirely.
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Pitchfork's 50 best album of 2008, redacted...
50 Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual 49 Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night 48 High Places - High Places 47 The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave 46 Beach House - Devotion 45 Lykke Li - Youth Novels 44 Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That 43 Shearwater - Rook 42 Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Lie Down in the...
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The world's greatest health blog is back! →
Yep, it’s Herbach is a Mess. “Check out the hoodie,” he says. “That’s a NIKE hoodie, with a swoosh, which makes you know that I mean business.”
Mediation has some excellent all-caps advice for... →
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“Three emails in a row will put someone off. They will conclude you are high...”
– Gallery owner Edward Winkleman, recounting a correspondence with a prospective artist.
“Cheap Guitars and Rotgut,” performed...
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Christmas travel hiatus, emergency links and...
South Twelfth will not be updated from now until the New Year. Your correspondent will be travelling via taxi, train, Herbach, bus and automobile back to Louisville, Kentucky, and not bringing his laptop with him.
This would be a good opportunity for you to learn about shotgun houses. Louisville is full of them. I’ll most likely be staying in a few.
If you absolutely cannot bear to go...
The Twincy wars.
Oh, blogosphere. So quick to action, so quick to judgement!
Yesterday, Chuck Terhark made an offhand remark in support of advancing “Twincy“ as a new nickname for our nomenclaturally-challenged Minneapolis-St. Paul Supercity (covered yesterday in South Twelfth here). It was a measure I voiced grave concerns about.
Not Mediation, though! Taylor says:
Let’s talk this through for a...
Vänskä Conducts Nielsen and Sibelius. →
Music to embolden the northern spirit in midwinter. Nielsen, from Denmark, and Sibelius, a Finn, knew a thing or two about surviving and thriving in the long winters.
(Via ekf.)
Twincy, Pig's Eye, the 'Ap and Tony Town.
“I hate the name ‘Twin Cities.’ It makes everything sound awkward. Can’t we get a cool nickname for once, like Philly, Cincy, Indy, PDX, NOLA or Chi-town? My vote: Twincy. Discuss.”
That’s Chuck Terhark, writing in Metro Magazine. With all due respect to Mr. Terhark, a very intelligent guy whose work I like very much, I simply cannot and will not get behind...
Ten years of Max Fischer. →
A short appreciation of Wes Anderson’s antihero and his sartorial thievery that I wrote for another fashion blog I collaborate on with two other fellows.
“It resembles one of those high-end mid-20th-century bestsellers with a title...”
– Laura Miller in Salon, reviewing Ron Rash’s new Depression-era clear-cutting novel Serena.
(Note: Miller writes that she means this ”in the best possible way.” Well, of course! How could you not?)
Programming note.
As tempting as it may be, neither Belgian Teenagers nor Belgian MySpace, sadly, will be an ongoing regular feature of South Twelfth. Désolé.
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Ted Turner, hymnody, tacked-on endings and the San...
“We won’t be signing off until the world ends. We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event…. and when the end of the world comes, we’ll play ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ before we sign off.”
That’s Ted Turner, upon launching CNN in 1980. So says Wikipedia.
That particular hymn turns up at the end...
Hello, my name is Detroit. →
anthropophagous:
Detroit is so much more than troubled corporations, abandoned train stations and scary titty bars.
Whip that Coffee-Mate™ into somethin' special! One...
Time is running out for you to submit your entry for South Twelfth’s Great Office Slave Gourmet Drink Recipe Contest!
Read the incredible press coverage here! Marvel as I cavalierly compare vacuum-packaged Sysco coffee grounds to “Frankish herring gruel”! Whatever that is!
The recipes have been pouring in! Don’t get left behind! Figure out something to do with all that...
Harry Scheff on hockey.
1. We were all suspicious when the owner of the North Stars changed the name of the team to the “Stars.”
2. The North Stars leaving Minnesota was a betrayal on the level of the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn. If it seems like Minnesotans don’t talk about it the way old Dodger fans talked about their loss, it’s because Minnesotans are morose and the bitterness is kept inside...
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Twin Cities Sidewalks goes to suburban Detroit. →
And recoils in horror and fascination at the grim spectacle of the “Michigan Left”!
I’m glad to see Bill back and in fine blogging form after a short hiatus earlier this year.
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Ten cultural policies for the Obama...
As suggested by David Ross, former director of SFMOMA.
Support and sign bill giving artists tax incentives for donating their work to museums.
Create a new public work program for artists and writers.
Develop a realistic federal funding to support the general operating costs of American art museums and other public art institutions.
Restore federal and state funding for artists, writers and...
“A wild comedic ride with the Berrybender family in 1832. They’ve come over from...”
– This Recording finds the source material for a Wes Anderson Western: Larry McMurtry’s Sin Killer.
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South Twelfth's great gourmet office drink recipe...
Think, for a moment, of being at work. It’s still morning, before the various and sundry humiliating demands of your job have ground your sense of creative inquiry into a motionless, useless nub. You are standing in the break room, pouring a cup of coffee for yourself and watching the snow fall silently out the window, and you let your gaze fall upon the other various condiments commonly...
"Bond's loyalty to the intelligence establishment... →
Socialist Worker reviews Quantum of Solace.
