Jay Boller
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Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Hardee's GM on Lindell FBI Raid: 'I Know For a Fact It Didn't Happen'
"Biggest fake news story I have ever seen and my store is at the middle of it," Adam Mahowald says. → Read More
Better Know a Retro Menu: Dayton's Sky Room, Elevated Dining for Hungry Shoppers
In the latest installment of BKARM, we explore Dayton's penthouse dining institution that looked over mid-century Minneapolis. → Read More
Picked to Click 2020 No. 4: Turn Turn Turn
Turn Turn Turn began with humble ambitions. → Read More
Picked to Click 2020 No. 5: bugsy
This ain’t Emily Schoonover’s first Picked to Click rodeo.… → Read More
Wanna buy this historic Red Wing mansion with a sick rooftop deck?
Upon its completion in 1875, the Theodore Sheldon mansion looked quite different than it does today. → Read More
Wanna buy ex-Minnesota Wild star Eric Staal's pondside Edina house?
When Eric Staal signed with the Minnesota Wild in 2016, the veteran center immediately scooped up a brand-new Edina house for $1.75 million, according to county… → Read More
Minneapolis & St. Paul weather: It's snowing...
I-94 in Columbia Heights around 9 a.m. on Friday. Oof. It's COVID, it's the dumbest election in history, and now it's snowing: TGIF, baby! → Read More
Women's March 2020, bands in vans, Black flea market: 44 great things to do this weekend
It's the weekend. Stay safe, everyone. → Read More
Minneapolis' Southwest Journal will soon stop publishing
Bad news for Minneapolis: Southwest Journal, the biweekly newspaper that has covered the city's southwestern neighborhoods since 1990, announced Thursday its final issue will arrive December… → Read More
Suddenly, the local service industry is fighting to unionize. Inside the pro-labor push.
On September 19, Spyhouse Coffee workers went on strike. “Spyhouse puts the cough in coffee—get your union busting off me!” employees chanted, marching in front of the local chain’s Broadway and Central location in northeast Minneapolis. Their signs were scrawled with “I spy union busting” and “We like our coffee like we like our union: strong!” Traffic slowed through the prominent intersection… → Read More
Look at this Minnesota man's 2,350-pound world champion pumpkin
The journey was paved with potential hazards, but a Minnesota man emerged victorious from Monday's Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. … → Read More
Look at this Anoka man's 2,350-pound world record pumpkin
The journey was paved with potential hazards, but a Minnesota man emerged victorious from Monday's Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. … → Read More
Send us photos of spooktacular Halloween houses in your neighborhood
Ha ha ha, sorry to terrify you. But we are in the throes of the most spooktacular season of them all: Halloween season. That means surplus goblins, ghouls, zombies with no conscience, and, of course, the novel coronavirus. It also means delightfully over-the-top decorations throughout the Twin Cities, as y'all demonstrated last year. So, yet again, we're sounding the Halloween house alarm, and… → Read More
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Look. → Read More
Wienermobile, Nutmobile spotted in Minneapolis
Look. → Read More
Rejoice, S. Minneapolis: The I-35W exit ramp to 35th St. is finally open!
Game-changing motorist news for residents of south Minneapolis: As of Thursday, the southbound exit ramp to 35th Street is open, baby! … → Read More
Minnesota's most expensive condo overlooks Target, Buffalo Wild Wings, Cub
Wanna live like the king of Edina? → Read More
Let's look at photos of the Mississippi River's rockin' bottom
Minneapolis City Pages is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Minneapolis. → Read More
Wanna buy a 400-sf, $400K tiny house by Cedar Lake?
Got tiny-house dreams and $400,000? → Read More
2020 Comix Issue: The end of the world as we know it
Kameron White • @spacejamkam • spacejamkam.carbonmade.com For the latest edition of City Pages’ Comix Issue, we asked local artists to play off a potentially too-real theme: The end of the world as we know it. The following apocalyptic comic strips are the best of the bunch. → Read More