A PUBLICLY FUNDED FOOTBALL STADIUM????  This from a Governor who is apparently so principled on the budget that it is worth violating his Constitutional prerogative to cut funding for things.
Don’t worry though, they have a perfectly responsible means to pay for this new stadium: they are going to encourage more people to engage in state-sponsored gambling!
Here are [...]

The New York Yankees are in town, and the streets are filled with people in Yankees shirts in the Twin Cities.  There appears to be no escaping them.  I’ve decided on a Yankee fan razor:  Name as many starting New York Yankee catchers since Yogi Berra that you can.  Here’s my scale:
If they can name [...]

Minnesota Symphony Orchestra on Lake Minnetonka!  FREE.

I walked by Target Field the other day in the Skyway and I took these photos with my iPhone.

The incoming head of the Minnesota State GOP has a statement on today’s State Supreme Court Ruling in favor of Al Franken.  
Today’s ruling wrongly disenfranchised thousands of Minnesotans who deserve to have their votes counted.  Alongside Senator Coleman, the Republican Party of Minnesota has fought to make sure every vote counts and all voters [...]

It’s often a criticism of those who favor public financing of sports arenas that they cite numbers when times are good and expect them to continue.  I wonder if the singling out of the Twin Cities as a place with “Arena Glut” would have such a strong case if the basketball team could win consistently, [...]

Tonight is the finale of my first season listenign to the Minnesota Orchestra.  They are not going out quietly.  They are playing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and I cannot wait. Beethoven’s incsription on the score reads,
From the heart — may it go again — to the heart.
As a fan of Vaughan Williams, I also cannot help [...]

I went to the Open Eye Figure Theater’s The Holiday Pageant by Michael Sommers.  It was really fantastic.  The fact that weather.com says that Minneapolis “Feels like -22″ is less fantastic.  
The Holiday Pageant is the story of Christmas told from the point of view of Lucifer and his lowest minion.  The Angel Gabriel is like [...]

Since it is snowing in the Twin Cities, (though it doesn’t look like the picture in the paper this far south) I am using my personal authority to declare it acceptable to listen to The Nutcracker out of season.

Handel’s “Messiah”! Joshua Bell! “Missa Solemnis”!  Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project!  Steven’s new Minnesota Orchestra Season ticket package has been confirmed!  Oh, and in case you thought I had forgot:
It is 199 days, 16 hours, 2 minutes and 20 seconds until the Leila Josefowicz show, and I have tickets!  She will be playing [...]