Minnesota’s Twin Cities sit 150 miles from the state’s southeastern tip. When combined, the state capitol of St. Paul and its neighbor to the west, Minneapolis, create the 13th-most populated area in the nation. The two so often are linked — by the likes of baseball’s hometown Twins, the upcoming 2008 Republican National Convention, and […]
There’s a bottle of urine rolling around the parking lot of a skateboard shop/clothing boutique in Costa Mesa, California. Although he can’t be certain, Black Lips drummer Joe Bradley is pretty confident that it belongs to one of his bandmates. In fact, he’s even got a hunch which member of the Atlanta quartet is responsible, […]
The south of France is nice this time of year. Then again, the south of France is nice any time of year – it is the south of France, after all. Maybe it’s the sea breeze off of the Mediterranean. Maybe it’s the comfort in knowing that Spain and Italy are a short jaunt in […]
It’s a Friday afternoon in early June in a biomedical research department near Pittsburgh. Employees are scrambling to wrap up their workweeks. While most collars are still pressed, ties are a bit undone and shoes have lost some of that Monday morning polish. It’s been a long week. It could be any office anywhere in […]
It’s 11 a.m. and Britt Daniel is at his Portland home. It would be nice to imagine the deep-voiced songwriter and Spoon frontman stumbling into a café mid-morning to sip coffee with this Pacific Northwest city’s ever-growing roster of musicians that includes the Dandy Warhols, The Shins and ex-Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein — like a […]
Chris Archibald thinks that he likes L.A., although he’s not entirely sure. For almost three weeks, the 29-year-old songwriter has been transplanted in the affluent Eagle Rock neighborhood on the northeast side of the city, a posh part of town that has at times been home to people like John Steinbeck and Barack Obama. But […]
It’s before sunrise on a Sunday in March, and a 34-year-old pharmacy technician who calls herself “Cyber” has been awake for an hour. As she prepares to make the 60-mile trip to Gary, Ind.’s City Methodist Church, the Buffalo Grove resident brushes passed the semi-formal attire in her closet traditionally associated with Sunday mass. Instead […]
It’s 5:30pm and Chris Otepka is nowhere to be found. The Troubled Hubble front man has the ability to slip by undetected. Inconspicuously, he is asleep in his bands tour van – a habit he has formed during the last few weeks. Whatever the cause, for whatever the reason, the newfound routine works. Not to […]