My latest for @racketmn.com about the emergence of cultural coffeehouses in the Twin Cities. Read it here:

Racket@racketmn.com · 3d ago

Driven by Yemeni and Egyptian businesses, a new kind of coffee shop is hitting the Twin Cities. racketmn.com/slow-down-cu...

You heard @steventurous.bsky.social for @minnpost.bsky.social - now go read my latest for @racketmn.com: racketmn.com/slow-down-cu...

Slow Down! Cultural Cafes Are Offering Spaces to Settle in With Friends. - Racket

Driven by Yemeni and Egyptian businesses, a new kind of coffee shop is spreading through the Twin Cities.

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Steve McPherson@steventurous.bsky.social · 5d ago

Last Glean of the week, rounding up the day's news at @minnpost.bsky.social. Shouts to @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social for two of my favorite stories, one about cultural coffeeshops and one about what an asshat Tom Emmer is, respectively. www.minnpost.com/glean/2026/0...

Wrote about the emergence of cultural coffeehouses in the Twin Cities for @racketmn.com yesterday. Check it out!

Racket@racketmn.com · 6d ago

Driven by Yemeni and Egyptian businesses, a new kind of coffee shop is spreading through the Twin Cities. racketmn.com/slow-down-cu...

ICYMI: I wrote about the emergence of cultural coffeehouses in the Twin Cities for @racketmn.com today. Check it out!

Racket@racketmn.com · 6d ago

A different kind of coffee shop is opening up these days.

Some new work for @racketmn.com where I talk about the emergence of cultural coffeehouses in the Twin Cities, driven by the ongoing opening/expansion of Yemeni coffeehouses, and how they are a change up from the cafes and coffee shops currently offered: racketmn.com/slow-down-cu...

Slow Down! Cultural Cafes Are Offering Spaces to Settle in With Friends. - Racket

Driven by Yemeni and Egyptian businesses, a new kind of coffee shop is spreading through the Twin Cities.

racketmn.com

Post a perfect album from the ‘90s.

Dart Adams@dartadams.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the ‘90s.

Listen to me in the trivia hot seat for @triviamafia.com’s “No Brains, No Lightbulbs” podcast: www.triviamafia.com/podcast/2026...

I kicked off season 3 as a guest on the latest “No Brains, No Lightbulbs” podcast, where I got put in the hot seat to do a gamut of awesomely themed music and pop culture trivia questions with the good peoples at @triviamafia.com! Available now wherever you consume podcasts!

If you and a friend had nothing to do, this is one of the best spots for a burger & fries when the hunger pangs hit around 11-midnight, and you could sit out on that patio until 3am. Got me through many a summer @radiok.bsky.social shift from 1999-2007 when I had the 9pm-11pm slot.

Vince Mpls@vincempls.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: Critical local businesses remain open at this hour despite the unfolding environmental catashophe

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“Hey, y’all played a heck of a game out there. We may not have won, but y’all definitely succeeded. I mean, you gave the champs 90 minutes of hell.” —Ted Lasso …and that’s all the thoughts I got on Egypt Vs. Argentina today.

To ring in the United States’ Semiquincentennial, here are 30 essential album covers — many for recordings by American artists, but not exclusively — featuring the colors of the American Flag that I wrote about for @thecurrent.org: www.thecurrent.org/feature/2026...

30 essential red, white, and blue album covers

To ring in the United States’ Semiquincentennial, here are 30 essential album covers — many for recordings by American artists, but not exclusively — featuring the colors of the American Flag.

thecurrent.org

ICYMI - I wrote about 30 essential album covers in red, white, and blue, with some brief blurbs about how each of them came to be from a creative direction standpoint for @thecurrent.org yesterday: www.thecurrent.org/feature/2026...

30 essential red, white, and blue album covers

To ring in the United States’ Semiquincentennial, here are 30 essential album covers — many for recordings by American artists, but not exclusively — featuring the colors of the American Flag.

thecurrent.org

Today for @thecurrent.org: I wrote about 30 essential albums in red, white, and blue, with some brief blurbs about how each of them came to be from a creative direction standpoint! www.thecurrent.org/feature/2026...

30 essential red, white, and blue album covers

To ring in the United States’ Semiquincentennial, here are 30 essential album covers — many for recordings by American artists, but not exclusively — featuring the colors of the American Flag.

thecurrent.org

Still diggin’. 📸: Nicole Crowder (caught incognito style at Agharta Records in St. Paul)

www.fwmj.shop 🏀🔵🏀🔵 Just One More Win 🏆

YO! I didn’t expect this at all until @cheycab.bsky.social brought it to my attention this afternoon. Please contribute to support Urban Lights Music: A Community Treasure: gofund.me/a9b9b6193 This screengrab was from S1 E1 of Tacos & Tastemakers, which you can watch here: youtu.be/xfevhg1-ohA?...

Tacos & Tastemakers - Episode 001: Tim Wilson of Urban Lights Music

YouTube video by Tacos & Tastemakers

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Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 2mo ago

Urban Lights is the Twin Cities’ only Black-owned record store.

Just a couple of online homies (me and @eriktmpls.bsky.social) at the record store, finally meeting for the first time in the real world, y’know

Went to my local cafe where they played “Eternal Flame” by The Bangles, and I expressed to them as well as having this moment in my memory, recollecting how The Bangles were the first band ever in my musical timeline. 🧵

“The Wu is comin’ thru, the outcome is critical”

The Dinkytowner raised me, and my favorite memory is loaning DJ Stage One my headphones one evening. I will never ever live that memory (and many others) down. Thanks @matoswk.bsky.social for allowing me to contribute some quotes of my memories for your incredible piece in @racketmn.com today!

Michaelangelo Matos@matoswk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Everybody's got some fuzzy Dinkytowner memories." My newest for @racketmn.com: an epic 9k-word oral history of the most storied Minneapolis venue of the 2000s. Freestyle rap battles! Indie rock on the rise! Techno all night! Tex-Mex, anyone? racketmn.com/dinkytowner-...

The fam entrusted me to slow roast a boneless leg of lamb for Eid today, and needless to say, I rose to the challenge. Eid Mubarak to all the homies observing.

Brian Jackson (who was Gil Scott-Heron’s main collaborator) is releasing a Gil Scott-Heron covers album called “Now More than Ever” near the end of the month on BBE Music produced by Kenny Dope & Louie Vega that is for sure an easy AOTY contender: thebrianjackson.bandcamp.com/album/now-mo...

Now More Than Ever, by Brian Jackson

19 track album

thebrianjackson.bandcamp.com

☔️ missing you, always

College radio era me had me giving this plenty of burn on Saturday afternoons, and the phone lines blowing up asking “who is that!?”: youtu.be/MZ-B0G-h9PM

360 Degrees - Fugative Bluz

YouTube video by OGDonNinja

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Is it too poetic to have heard “Down in a Hole” by Alice in Chains whilst prepping for a colonoscopy? Asking for a friend. That being said, my first colonoscopy is now in the books: no polyps, all clear, great success.

Thanks to @seandammit.bsky.social & @midazthebeast.bsky.social for having me on The Questions “Making Illmatic” series, where we do a deep dive into Mos Def/yasiin bey’s 2009 album “The Ecstatic.” Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts: www.podpage.com/the-question...

46. Portraiture by the one and only @bumpopera.bsky.social. Eternal love and gratitude to everyone in my life and circle. Thanks for making me part of those moments in your life, no matter how big or small they were. Hope I get to be around for more of them.

Rest easy to Bob Power. Truly a legend.

My pieces were featured in the most recent email blast for @exploreminnesota.bsky.social! You can read those pieces in the Food + Drink page under the “Take a Culinary Tour” section. I penned the best African, Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern articles: www.exploreminnesota.com/things-to-do...