Newspaper stalwarts like to tout the delight print readers feel when their eyes fall upon interesting juxtapositions of stories they’d never see online. But sometimes such paper-copy serendipity can be bewildering. Look at today’s Star Tribune B section (emphasis…
The time is nigh for Norm Coleman to say goodbye. That was the word over the weekend from Kiplinger.com, USA Today and an editor at National Review. Coleman’s bid to up-end Al Franken’s U.S. Senate recount win must stop…
As we reported yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann has been saying that Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade plan for global warming will cost households $3,100 each year in energy costs. Only trouble is, the author of the MIT study she’s…
More newspapers, online media outlets and political pundits are offering former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman free advice — mainly that he look in the mirror and see that he’s toast.
The Star Tribune may be financially bankrupt but it’s not out of ideas for how to make the news pay. The front page of Sunday’s print edition trumpeted a “Star Tribune Exclusive — only in your Sunday paper.” Indeed, to…
Former Sen. Norm Coleman in an interview with SIRIUS XM Radio’s Andrew Wilkow raised the specter of chucking the results of the Nov. 4 election to hold a
Norm Coleman’s contest just got a boost — not legally, but financially. The Republican National Committee has transferred a quarter-million dollars to the state GOP to help cover legal costs in Coleman’s bid to regain his U.S.…
Amid budget woes that have pinched City Pages’ online budgets, area blogs are test-driving new ideas — from a new foodie site by a laid-off City Pages restaurant critic to a tech-blogger’s pay-per-post microfinancing plan to “Content Partnerships” at City Pages’ 2008 local blog of the year.
In its humble return, this edition of the intermittent Media Monitor catalogues: Ed Kohler’s latest analysis of City Pages (charged with rampant photo-swiping), a look at how a local Black History Month supermarket promotion has gone national, an acknowledgment of the power of “Brautweets,” and more.
For two years of the Bush era beginning with Hurricane Katrina, the Star Tribune published a weekly comic strip on its opinion page that was unlike anything else in American newspapers, sending up current events in a serial format with heaping doses of dark humor and giddy gore. “Banana Republic” dispensed satire so bruising and brutal it made you want to die of shame — but also so funny and true it gave you reason to live. Now cartoonist Kirk Anderson’s new book compiles every episode of “Banana Republic,” letting readers re-live tortuous times and die of embarassment all over again.
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