Stogies on Grand (961 Grand Ave., St. Paul) and Lewis Pipes and Tobacco (527 Marquette Ave., Minneapolis) evoke completely different feelings upon entrance.
Stogies’ quaint Grand Avenue storefront leads into a labyrinthine store filled with laughter and smoke, while Lewis’ massive skyscraper hat sits over a clean one-room shop. The men who own these stores, on the other hand, look quite similar — tall, broad and worried around the eyes.
Blurb:
Old-fashioned tobacconists face an uncertain future as the world fights cigarettes and Swisher Sweets.
Where:Xcel Energy Center, 199 West Kellogg Boulevard Saint Paul
When: Friday February 3, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 4, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $17-$80
Anthony Lucia’s round face comes alive in peaks and valleys as he whirls a blurred rope up and down around his body. This “Texas Tornado” is one of his classic rope tricks, and even the old rodeo hands stop to watch as Lucia twists the lariat in spirals faster than any eye could see.
Blurb:
The World’s Toughest Rodeo brings the best in no-fringes, no-holds-barred entertainment to the Xcel Energy Center tonight and tomorrow.
Haters will invariably hate. That’s the cardinal r ule of the Internet, and it’s been proven time and time again. Haters have been tweaking out about every Internet change since Netscape Navigator shut down.
With Facebook’s new Timeline format thrust upon the masses, the file cabinet where I keep my “Haters Gonna Hate” evidence is stuffed to bursting. Can’t even shut the drawers.
Blurb:
In which A&E has a few words for the haters and then shares some ideas for the non-haters.
Subhead:
Gabrielle Hamilton’s “Blood, Bones, and Butter” is half Anthony Bourdain, half Tiger Mom, and a satisfyingly full meal for any fan of food writing.
Do not, under any circumstances, read "Blood, Bones, and Butter" while you are hungry. Gabrielle Hamilton's food descriptions can be so luscious and vivid that you will feel compelled to devour anything edible in front of you regardless of age or species (including, but no limited to, sleeping roommates and week-old scrambled eggs). Make sure you have munchies nearby to satisfy your raging palate, then get comfortable and dig in.
Blurb:
Gabrielle Hamilton’s “Blood, Bones, and Butter” is half Anthony Bourdain, half Tiger Mom, and a satisfyingly full meal for any fan of food writing.
Subhead:
Saintly City Cat Club hosts annual show in St. Paul
Publish Date:
Thu, 01/26/2012
AP Article:
Not AP Article
What: 36th Annual Championship and Household Pet Cat Show
Where: Exhibition Hall at the River Centre, 75 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul
When: Jan. 28-29
Cost: $4 for adults, $3 for children and seniors
YouTube, if you are doing YouTube right, is basically a giant cat show. But any cat can be cute while wearing mittens and sitting in teacups from the comfort of its own home.
Temp Reporter:
Griffin Fillipitch
Blurb:
Saintly City Cat Club hosts annual show in St. Paul.
Subhead:
Intermedia Arts’ latest exhibit turns its focus on Iraqi women, but not in the way you’d expect.
Where: Intermedia Arts, 2822 S. Lyndale Ave., Minneapolis
When: Jan. 31 through March 3
Cost: $3 suggested donation
The Western media is rampant with preconceived notions about women in the Middle East. In an unfortunate display of ethnocentrism, it seems to have trouble getting past hijabs and veils. Women are depicted as subservient and oppressed, and the conversation doesn’t go much further.
Blurb:
Intermedia Arts’ latest exhibit turns its focus on Iraqi women, but not in the way you’d expect.