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Sea Salt at the Falls

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s first big catch was Tin Fish, the al fresco seafood restaurant that opened two years ago at Lake Calhoun. Now it has a second

Freedom for Justices

To: Ron Carey, Chair, Minnesota GOP; Brian Melendez, Chair, Minnesota DFL; Jim Moore, Chair, Independence Party of Minnesota; Rhoda Gilman, Politics Chair, Green Party of Minnesota; George Soule, Past Chair,

Ciao, Mexico!

What sent Richard and Larry D’Amico to Mexico to develop their latest venture? Partly, it was Saul Chavez, a talented Mexican immigrant who was sous chef at the D’Amicos’ Campiello

A Gas Tax, Not Gimmicks

To: G. Richard Wagoner, Jr., Chairman & CEO, General Motors; Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy; Senator Mark Dayton; Senator Norm Coleman: When the oil-man son of an oil man

Something to Talk About

For more than 60 years, the Town Talk Diner was a Minneapolis institution, beloved for its $1.99 breakfast combos and its plate-sized pancakes made from the secret family recipe of

Explore the Peninsula

When have you possessed such a craving for a food that you’d drive an hour and a half each way to have it for lunch? That’s how enthusiastic some in

Puck, The Magic Player

To the fans of  '87 and '91:   Every little boy remembers his first important hit in baseball. I was between sixth and seventh grade, and the go-ahead run was
Golf Gear

Golf Gear

In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of golf. And equipment.

Lyn-Lake’s New Bistro

I have a form of “roving eye syndrome” common to restaurant critics. Wherever I am, I’m scouting for eating and drinking establishments that look worth a try. Spotting something doesn’t

Family Thai

Thank Cathareen Chang for the fact that you don’t have to go to Sydney or Bangkok to taste her father’s cooking. You need go no further than Krua Thai in