I’m sitting outside a bookstore and a guy with a guitar is singing Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright.

“Unafraid”: The moment The Replacements truly became The Replacements

Only thing I wanna hear from the Atlantic is the cheerful trill of a porpoise

Multiple local ice cream places failing inspections within a month is a bit of an eek

Gracie the Giraffe has been found after days-long search through Texas Hill Country www.khou.com/article/news...

Every city has at least one ominous megastructure. Some of them have a few.

This piece from 2016 by @shannonmattern.bsky.social is excellent. Read it! Related to it, I need HELP! I want to assign as a primary source Altman & Cheung's blog post on "New Cities"...but it's gone and Wayback Machine was no help. Did anyone save a copy? placesjournal.org/article/a-ci...

A couple strange things in this statement from Lavender's CEO. 1.) Double spaces between sentences. 2.) "The goals for Lavender’s founders have been achieved. It is now time to say goodbye as we have achieved the purpose for which we were created." lavendermagazine.com/featured-hom...

Taking in the sights aboard a Metro Transit 3M ad-wrapped Kris Lindahl train car!

Do Ya want to order take out on the Telephone Line?

Some cities have two Ominous Megastructures.

The McKnight Foundation hopes this will be the first mural in a "rotating" public art series.

"Almost Argentina" is my favorite extended Wilco jam.

i'm running out of generations to blame

someone in the coffee shop is on a zoom call no headphones

In the first half of the 20th century, the City of Toronto had official "City Photographers." Peter MacCallum explores the techniques they, in particular the renowned Arthur Goss, used to capture the city through the "roadways" series in the Toronto archives. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Not because they wanted it …. news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200...

Just super. Hestercombe Gardens.

The frontroom of our delightful Latin Quarter flat in Paris for the next month.

"Did creatives and artists think that things like vaudeville were insulting since it was not very authentic and was a cheap version of what the art of theater and music was really supposed to be?"

An eBay seller has completely re-imagined the cover art for the Replacements’ “Tim” album

Underrated tweet.

It was the best of times (What?) It was the worst of times (What?) It was the combination best of times and worst of times

Look what the Norwegians did

Happy Pride

As Minneapolis culture dies off, different subcultures, small scenes, and neighborhood spots are growing like weeds which is great www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

Minneapolis continues its cultural collapse

This being Minneapolis, it could have been the John Cook house.

I saw someone walking their dog in short pants. I’m gonna start over.

In less than 12 years from its opening, the Mall of America had light rail train service from downtown Minneapolis.

It’s Peter Lorre’s birthday. One of the greatest performances in cinema ever. In this gut punch of a scene depicting a kangaroo court officiated over by gangsters, Lorre depicts his child killer as pathetic & cowardly but deeply & disturbingly all too human: youtu.be/jUDUbxsNjV0?...

On this day in 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway was officially opened. The opening was attended by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, President Dwight Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II. 📸 LAC Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/11KKT3V

Overuse of Das Racist’s “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” is the new overuse of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”

Naz Reid is departing from Minneapolis in a boat, but his suitcases are still on shore.

12 years ago Janet Street-Porter curated an incredible collection of BBC Archive films for BBC Four on post-war architecture. They're all still available and it's difficult for me to think of a better illustration of the value of public service broadcasting. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

Every piece of advice on how to cope with the heat is essentially just have you considered being wetter and darker? Have you given yourself to the forest floor? Have you tried being a little fungus for a while?

good to get that loss to bring the USMNT fanbase back to its more natural state of existential dread. swaggering confidence is just a weird look going into the knockouts

I’m sorry, I was kind of rooting for Türkiye there for a minute when that happened

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I’m in the room with someone who knows someone who knows the guy they just showed in the stands at the USA-TUR match in LA

Every city's got an ominous megastructure (St. Paul's is scaled to the size of the city.)

Every city’s got an ominous megastructure

Every city’s got an ominous megastructure Welcome to Seattle’s Central Library

Every city's got an ominous megastructure

It is conveniently located near this ridiculous piece of "wall art" that gets roundly mocked and photoshop modified all the time...

Several parks and national monuments in Arizona have exhibits about life in their camps and about their work: trails, buildings, restoration. This is a plaque at Chiricahua National Monument put up by CCC alumni: "The President's Tree Army" "It was the best thing that ever happened to me"

My favourite magazine Orangutang Monthly is now becoming Orangutang Quarterly and that pisses me off!!! I need new orangutang content every month not every three.

Well yeah, if Watergate happened again it would have gone off without a hitch because no one would have known about it until a year later when Woodward and Bernstein's book came out.

When they say soccer is a contact sport, they need to check with my mom in the 1980s about that.

You’ve queued your last NRB