Paul is also doing well with rec centers, as well as bathrooms and basketball hoops (1.7 per 20,000 people). Minneapolis parks excel at providing splash pads (4.4 per 100,000 people!) and recreation/senior centers. Paul residents are a 10-minute walk away from a park. Some fun facts: 98% of Minneapolis and 99% of St. Park systems in each city are ranked in five categories: access, investment, amenities, acreage, equity. The study looks at the 100 most populous cities in the U.S. And that is certainly the case in this year’s Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore Index rankings, which put St. Lists! We love to read them, especially when we come out near the top. Twin Cities Parks Top List, Need To Work on Equity (I know, right?) Funner fact: No one I voted for made it in this year. People that are members of that club, so many of them are people I admire and love.” Fun fact: I (Keith) am a RRHOF voter. “As far as career recognition, it’s as big as it gets to me. “I was shocked quite honestly,” Jam said, as one does under such circumstances. (The other “musical excellence” inductees this year are Judas Priest, who, while rockin’ enough in their own right, are not really musically “excellent” except maybe in the Bill and Ted sense.) Jam and Lewis, of course, came up alongside Prince, were among the premier architects of the Minneapolis Sound, and hit their highest peaks working Janet Jackson. Minneapolis-bred superproducers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis will be smuggled in under the “musical excellence” category-one of those fudgy means by which the Rock Hall inducts worthy musicians who voters don’t have the good taste to select. But two local sons will enter the Rock Hall via a different means. No one on the big list of performers, selected by Rock Hall voters, was from Minnesota and therefore we are not professionally obligated to have any opinions about them in this space.
Jam & Lewis Bound for Rock and Roll Hall of FameĪnd speaking of rotten institutions… the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its annual slate of inductees today. But, mostly, it asks questions of questionable consequence: Who is the leaker? Why’d they leak? Will their leak be punished accordingly? We’re more concerned about fundamental healthcare rights being stripped from half of the population-and, thankfully, the Strib’s news division has its priorities straight with this excellent report. Wade, the Strib department tasked with divining good opinions arrived at: “For the moment, however, we’re more concerned about the future of the Supreme Court itself.” (Suckers for flag-saluting sanctimony and political credulity can read their take here.) The piece makes one passing mention of the court clawing back rights from an entire class of citizens, focusing instead on the childlike belief that the unelected, conservative court operates on a celestial, lawyerly plane above all ideology. As abortion rights face extreme peril following leaked SCOTUS plans to overturn Roe v. It might not surprise you to learn that the grade-school civics grads who run the Star Tribune Editorial Board hold a different worldview. The various branches of American democracy, including the fourth, exist to reinforce our country’s role as a top-down, racist, and sexist global financier/arms dealer. We… Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Institutions! We rented our telephones from the telephone company.
We didn’t even have videos sometimes! We just closed our eyes and imagined things. In my day we didn’t have trailers for songs. Can’t wait till then? There’s a trailer for the song, which is unfortunately a thing we are doing now. Jepsen is coming off a Coachella appearance, and will release a new single, “Western Wind,” on Friday. I did not expect to have that come into my life.” Ticketing info is here-looks like you can only buy eight tickets at once, which is good news for those of us with seven or fewer friends. What’s CRJ have to say about her status as a “gay icon”? “Honestly, that’s kinda been the gift of my career.
And in a TC Pride first, she’ll be performing at the big ol’ Armory, rather than at the Concert in the Park (which ain’t happening). Easy! Email Address Submitīig Pride news: This year’s musical headliner is Carly Rae Jepsen, as LGBTQ+-beloved a contemporary pop star as there is. Sign up, get MN's top headlines in your inbox every day.