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Racket

Racket is a website created by writers and supported by readers, established by a team of former editors from City Pages (which we miss). We focus on the same bold and entertaining journalism that City Pages was known for since 1979. Our coverage includes news, politics, music, arts, culture, quirky local stories, food and drink, and theater, all featuring plenty of local perspectives. Plus, we make sure our content is enjoyable to read.

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  • 4 days ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

    Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. Does Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz want to be president? The 2024 Democratic VP nom is making headlines—from the the New York Times to the Washington Post—that suggest, yes, the 61-year-old politician might be eyeballing the top of the ticket in 2028. Walz spoke Friday at a South Carolina fish fry hosted by Rep.

  • 6 days ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

    Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. As someone who’s never quite understood why Minnesotans love Target so much, watching The House That Bullseye Built step on one public relations rake after another has filled me with a warm sense of schtargetfreude.

  • 1 week ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

    Whew, I've got an unprecedented five new movie reviews for you this week. Scroll down for my thoughts on Final Destination: Bloodlines, Friendship, Pavements, Bring Her Back, and Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. Switchblade Sisters (1975)Alamo DrafthouseBabes with blades. $15.18. 6 p.m. More info here. I Should Have Been Dead Years Ago: The Raw Life of Stuart Gray (2024)Cloudland TheaterThe story of Stu Spasm from Australia’s Lubricated Goat. $13. 7 p.m. More info here.

  • 1 week ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

    Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. Over 270 Macalester College staffers could soon become unionized. Officials from the private liberal arts college in St. Paul declined to voluntarily recognize the union, so workers filed a petition earlier this month for an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.

  • 1 week ago | racketmn.com | Keith Harris

    Why can't they all be three-day weekends, right folks? (Because the economic system we live under demands that we maximize our productivity so that others may accumulate capital.)DJ Cam Jones @ AcadiaInternational Reggae Allstars @ Bunker’sLutheran Heat, Gentlemen Rogues, the Slow Death @ CloudlandThe Klezmatics @ Dakota—Now pushing 70, Lorin Sklamberg remains one of modern klezmer’s great singers.