THE DISH: A review of Tiny Diner and a Kale Salad Recipe
resistance persistence: Resist even more
Do you want slavery with that chocolate?
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE I’m going to assume you don’t. For the past two or three years, I have been on a quixotic quest to raise awareness about the incredible prevalence of child slave labor in the production of chocolate, and the enormous “conspiracy of silence” that leaves otherwise conscientious…
Becoming the Kindly Ghost
Metro-wide Holiday Guide—from the goofy to the ethereal
Resist, relief, persist
Fear and loathing in the last week before the 2018 midterms
THE DISH: Southside soul, delights of the U.S. South
Who shall rule this American nation?
Some interesting things to check out on East 42nd Street
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Mexican-American culture is osmosing through South Minneapolis for sure, and it’s in glorious evidence along 42nd Street. Just up the hill from El Colegio, a publicly supported charter high school “rooted in the Latinx experience,” there are two small businesses across the street from each other…
Comings and goings at the Midtown Global Market
resistance persistence: Recap of August, new September events
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Do you realize what an insane month August was? Locally, we had merely days before the statewide party and non-partisan primaries, an allegation against a major DFL candidate—Keith Ellison, currently 5th District Congressperson, but running for Minnesota attorney general—of domestic violence. Ellison won his primary, and…
THE DISH: Lunch Around the World: Coming Back Home
From the quotidian to the sublime
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The business hub around Chicago and 48th Street said good-bye to two casual restaurants this summer, then said hello to their replacements within the past month or so. Pepito’s, the very long-lived Mexican family-style restaurant associated with the Parkway Theatre, closed its doors. But lovers of…