Issue 343

Local women’s band Sick of Sara goes National With a growing fan base in the Twin Cities, local band Sick of Sara has booked one of their most notable gigs to date. Olivia Cruises has scheduled the group as an ongoing act starting in November and going through next April. The cruise line promotes itself…

Depth Comes to the Archbishop? Good one! [“A Word in Edgewise,” Lavender, July 3] A question I’ve always wanted to ask those who think homosexuality is a “lifestyle choice” is, “What are the attractions of the gay lifestyle that would lead someone to choose to be gay?” I do want to know.

Breaking My Silence: Confessions of a Rat Pack Party Girl and Sex-Trade Survivor Jane McCormick with Patti Wicklund Rapfire Press $19.95 Vadnais Heights great-grandmother Jane McCormick lets down her hair about her days as a “party girl,” and companion to the rich and famous—her induction into the Rat Pack Circle (Chairman of the Board Frank…

Home & Yard Blvd. Section We buy it. We sell it. We trade it. We explore it. We even war over it. It’s space, and in these efficiency-obsessed times, maximizing it is key to modern life. Recently, the canniest of designers have imposed a specific brand of schizophrenia on living space, reinventing that toothless, redheaded…

Home & Yard Blvd. Section Summer may have taken a while to get here, but now that it has, it’s here with force. Hot, muggy weather accompanied by Minnesota storms doesn’t make for a good time on the lake, but for companies like Matt’s Tree Service, it’s welcome. With well more than half of business…

Home & Yard Blvd. Section No longer a massively popular way of saying awesome like it was in the ’80s, the term “tubular” now is being applied to an updated way of bringing outdoor lighting inside your home or business. Awesome, right?

Home & Yard Blvd. Section Minneapolis’s Tangletown Gardens has dedicated an entire page of its Web site to the inspiration that the Mother of Us All can provide: “As gardeners and visual beings, we sometimes become all too comfortable with the same plant choices we’ve made time and time again.”

Home & Yard Blvd. Section For almost 100 years, Soderlin Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning not only has been a fixture in the Twin Cities area, but also has worked on various fixtures. In fact, it’s what the company does best.