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Richard Chin

Saint Paul

Feature and Magazine Writer at The Minnesota Star Tribune

Newspaperman. richard.chin@startribune. Often out on a quiet spree, vainly fighting the old ennui.

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  • 3 days ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Richard Chin

    By Richard Chin, Star Tribune In the basement of a ranch-style home in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, Allison Zank is hard at work in her laboratory. Oils are being heated in a water bath. Botanical substances are awaiting extractions and infusions. There's a white board diagramming the molecular makeup of pheromonal compounds such as actinidine and civetone.

  • 3 days ago | charlotteobserver.com | Richard Chin

    A collection of chunkles with homemade miracle nip inside sit on a shelf in Allison Zanks studio at her home in St. Louis Park, Minn. on Thursday, May 08, 2025. Zank owns and operates Feline Grove: Minou Le Mew, a business that sells innovative cat products backed by science and research that Zank does in her own home. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS) TNS In the basement of a ranch-style home in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, Allison Zank is hard at work in her laboratory.

  • 3 days ago | dailygazette.com | Richard Chin

    In the basement of a ranch-style home in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, Allison Zank is hard at work in her laboratory. Oils are being heated in a water bath. Botanical substances are awaiting extractions and infusions. There’s a white board diagramming the molecular makeup of pheromonal compounds such as actinidine and civetone. kAmt=D6H96C6 :?

  • 4 days ago | startribune.com | Richard Chin

    By Richard Chin In 2024, she self-published the poems under the imprint of Fourscore Poems. The poems come with small cartoon drawings that Johnson did of her observations of the sport. "I think it's like a celebration of the game," she said. So far, she's sold about 400 copies of the $12.99 book online and at retailers like Big Hill Books in Minneapolis, Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul and Barnes & Noble in the Galleria in Edina.

  • 4 days ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Rachel Hutton |Richard Chin

    By Rachel Hutton and Richard Chin, The Minnesota Star Tribune MINNEAPOLIS - Before the interstate highway system arrived in the 1950s, all manner of roadside oases enticed motorists to stretch their legs and open their wallets. Many of those oddball museums, petting zoos and gift shops have long since gone by the wayside. (Probably a good thing in the case of a couple infamous Up North oddities where tourists fed marshmallows or soda to captive bears.)

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Richard Chin
Richard Chin @rrchin
12 Feb 25

My search for @StribGoingOut for a jukebox in the Twin Cities that plays actual records led me to a guy in Newport who fixes them, and a pizza joint in Chaska that plays 45s for a quarter a song: https://t.co/xwZuQ1qT8O

Richard Chin
Richard Chin @rrchin
6 Feb 25

RT @LauraMcCallumB: Now that I'm on the #minnesotalife beat, I get to edit @rrchin stories like this one on an @Iceman_Hof weekend that i…

Richard Chin
Richard Chin @rrchin
6 Feb 25

Is it worth $850 to spend a weekend shivering? That's the goal of a "Wim Hof Weekend" being planned later this month in northern Minnesota: https://t.co/iLwApEWaRX