After much hemming and, yes, a fair amount of hawing, I've finalized my local and non-local playlists for the year. For bonus ...

You can order Minnesota Dairy Lab pints online—including Racky Road—for pickup at Minnesota Dairy Lab’s Northeast kitchen, or ...

But I also think it’s more fun and more rewarding to highlight some of the places we don’t see as much on other year-end best ...

In 2024, my favorite music didn't always prepare me for the fight ahead, but it always reminded me what was at stake.

Everybody hates a QR code menu. So when you enter Stargazer, the fancy new northeast Minneapolis cocktail bar from Travail ...

A real team player, Costello has been fronting high-profile local bands since the ’90s (Ouija Radio or Pink Mink ring a bell?

A bird's eye tour of Minnesota’s North yields dozens of rivers, seemingly infinite trees, and one very large blot that glows with an uncanny, cloudy iridescence. Not a single natural lake along that ...

Welcome to Weed Weviews, a verbal foible that’s become the very real name of this monthly column. Think of it like our Doin’ ...

The sign reads “OPEN” and the lights are on, but except for one clerk behind the register, Tower Games on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis appears empty on a recent Tuesday evening. Listen up ...

The year may sputter on for another week or more, but as far as Racket is concerned, 2024 ends whenever we close our tabs and ...

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Racket movie coverage is sponsored by the Walker Cinema. Learn More → Timothée Chalamet stars in two of the year’s biggest films. In one, he’s a young man with strange powers who travels to a distant ...