Em Cassel

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Em Cassel

Martha Durrett might never have started Cauldron Bagels if she'd liked working in tech. Durrett's baking experience began in the Boston area, where she moved after graduating from Carleton College in Minnesota. She started a job in the tech field and didn’t love it, so she quit, thinking she’d take a month or two off before finding another job. That was February of 2020.

3 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Em Cassel

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. Monday evening was the Minnesota GOP’s Lincoln-Reagan dinner, the party's biggest fundraising dinner of the year, and guess who was there? "None of the state's highest-ranking Republicans," according to Sydney Kashiwagi and Ryan Faircloth's report for the Star Tribune. Neither Pete Stauber nor Michelle Fischbach were in town, although the U.S. House is not in session; Rep.

1 month ago | racketmn.com | Em Cassel

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. In 2023, Minnesota Democrats passed the Earned Sick and Safe Time law, which gives workers one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours they work (up to 48 hours, or six paid sick days a year).

1 month ago | racketmn.com | Em Cassel

I haven’t seen anyone post the Justin Timberlake meme so far this year… and yet, it is gonna be May. And that means it’s time for the April Racket Restaurant Roundup! Let’s go:Now open in Minneapolis’s Forum 900 building (900 Second Ave. S. Unit 110), Food on the Fly serves a Korean-inspired lunch menu of sandwiches, bowls, soups, and sides, and proteins range from bulgogi to bratwurst to tuna (with plenty of vegan options, too).

1 month ago | racketmn.com | Em Cassel

In May 2023, HUGE Improv Theater made a big announcement. After 13 years at 3037 Lyndale Ave., the theater was relocating to a new, larger space a few blocks away. The move would mean roughly 3,000 additional feet of space, and, for the first time, the pioneering improv company would own its building. But by October of the following year, HUGE had closed, citing insurmountable financial challenges. And that was that.