JUST IN: The Bears say Indiana is now their main focus for a stadium, though they’ve stopped short of committing to moving across the state line.

Short sleepers, who make up less than one per cent of the population, spend significantly less than eight hours snoozing without any apparent health consequences. What can these rare individuals teach us about our relationship with rest? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/WQhwQk

Roads are terrible and rapidly getting worse. Be careful out there, Twin Cities

I know it’s only mid February but still crushed my soul a little bit brushing the snow off my car after the recent 50°+ days.

The Mexican restaurant in downtown Brainerd, Minn., that closed after an ICE raid last month is now up for sale. El Potro closed after federal agents, assisted by Crow Wing County sheriff's deputies, detained four employees Jan. 26. Video by Kim Hyatt

This is good stuff. Def picks up where the first VC record left off a bit. Excited to see them at Icehouse in April.

Chris Rosenau of Volcano Choir and Nick Sanborn of Sylvan Esso announced a new collaborative album called ‘Two.’ Hear their track "Walrus":

U2 release new politically charged EP 'Days of Ash,' say new album will be out later this year www.brooklynvegan.com/u2-release-n...

Wales’ finest, @thebugclubband.bsky.social are back with another beefy slab of garage-punk! 💪Every Single Muscle💪 their first album in 11 months, will be out on May 29. The 18-track LP features today’s first single, “Watching the Omnibus,” along with 17 other riffed and hooky bangers.

Killer lineup

Tour annoucnced. 3/31 at Target Center brucespringsteen.net/tour-history/ On-sale this

Alan Sparhawk of Low is releasing "JCMF" + "No More Darkness" in response to the turmoil that has occurred locally and globally over the past couple of years. He will be donating a portion of his royalties from these songs to the International Institute of Minnesota music.subpop.com/alan_sparhaw...

More federal agents are leaving Minnesota, but restaurants like American Pie Pizza in Richfield continue to be impacted by the surge in more ways than one.

Really good article with lots of insight from various players and angles. I have much less of a doomsday outlook on the local scene than Taylor but I digress. 😂

Brilliant. You’re giving us twice as much tour for the money

Please help me crowdfund and launch my new venture, Two Minute Tours.

Probably unpopular opinion: if Frey becoming a senator means we get a Mayor Payne, fuck it, go for it. He can’t be worse than Klobuchar and he gets to go away

Minnesota's biggest social video influencer the second his home state experiences hardship:

Following today's spectacular sunrise, fog rolled in along the Chicago lakefront.

Bruce just can’t get enough of us… First full band E Street show in Mpls proper since the reunion tour in 1999.

Today at First Avenue: I.C.E. OUT! A Mutual Aid Benefit hosted by T.C.U.P. 3:00PM - DOORS 4:00PM – 26 BATS! 4:45PM – PAPA MBYE 5:30PM – DURRY 6:30PM – JUSTIN VERNON 6:45PM – HIPPO CAMPUS This show is SOLD OUT: https://firstavenue.me/4rWbCEM This show is ALL AGES

Put a hat on it. www.harebraineddesign.com/products/ita...

A week ago we debuted our Italian Beefs hat. It sold out in ONE DAY. Good news: It’s currently backordered and we’ll be shipping more out by the end of the week. BEEF DOWN. #chicago

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

55 and sunny. Busy local businesses. Lake St feels alive right now and it’s awesome to see.

I love you, Minnesota. Happy Valentine’s Day 💚

This is blackout poetry to me

Nothing more important than to know Someone’s listening

Something that’s struck me living in a perennial Blue State is we’ve never had feral 21st-century Red State federal governance (2016 term was awful but OG GOP still there). Yet, watching Bondi, Noem, etc. faceplant, I realized they‘ve never governed outside a Red Bubble & can’t handle the heat.

Additionally: -$15.7 million in monthly rental assistance needs -$2.4 million to meet monthly food needs -8,700 new kids now need mental health services

The economic impact of ICE in Minneapolis -$203 million total economic loss January alone -$47m per month of income loss to families afraid to go to work -$81m loss to small biz -$4.7b in hotel cancelations -$37.9m loss construction evaluation

Minnesotans are going to be reeling from this for a long time. Yes, it seems they’re in retreat. But that doesn’t fix the damage they’ve brought upon us. When this is all over, we’re going to be left figuring out how to put our state back together again.

A suggestion for your Friday: this comp has songs from 110 Minnesota artists. Your $20 donation goes directly to mutual aid in the Twin Cites meltice.bandcamp.com/album/melt-ice

Do you park around Snelling/University or Selby/Dale in the winter? Were you also not privy to this pilot winter parking restriction rule? Here’s a pro tip from someone who doesn’t pay enough attention (might save you a $60 ticket!): www.stpaul.gov/news/saint-p...

Oh no god forbid you have to spend money to listen to your favorite artists

Sturgill Simpson details new physical-only Johnny Blue Skies album 'Mutiny After Midnight'

One month from now 🤌🏻🙌🏻

This is Lorelei - Nate Amos - is featured in the studio to perform and chat with Cafe contributing host @kallao.bsky.social about the Nate's collection of songs and how he draws inspiration from Cher and bluegrass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uq8...

Whenever possible, I like to remind others (and myself) that this isn't just a Twin Cities thing. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/n...

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Was just thinking about Battles, looked up "Atlas" and realized it came out nearly 20 years ago. 🫠 Hard to overstate how absolutely hard this song went live during that era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp...

Wally McRae... the coolest fucking cowboy poet that ever lived en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_M...

Harold and Maude is a movie that speaks specifically to its time, but which I mean any time between 1971 and forever. Rest In Peace, Bud Cort.

statement from minnesota lt gov and US senate candidate peggy flanagan on tom homan’s announcement of the ICE surge ending soon

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

no letting Amy even enter my head today

With the announcement that the ICE surge in MN is ending, I’m thinking about how so many people thought the child in Bad Bunny’s halftime performance was Liam Ramos and how our need for Hollywood endings and satisfying payoffs might hinder us from dealing with the painful and traumatic aftermath.