James Mangold's Bob Dylan biopic doesn't transcend the genre, but it does tweak Boomer mythology ever so slightly.

Forget Hennepin & Lake, let's talk about 38th & Grand, Xerxes & 50th, and 42nd & 28th. Whether crafting video game music or ...

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In 2024, my favorite music didn't always prepare me for the fight ahead, but it always reminded me what was at stake. Your writer-owned, reader-funded source for news, arts, and culture. Keeping ...

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Medical marijuana crusader Mary Jane Rathbun's 102nd birthday would have been this coming Sunday. She was born in Chicago in 1922, grew up in Minneapolis, spent some time campaigning for unions in ...

Bridget Collins floats through the diaphanous pop of the EP Mirror Maze like a ghost mixing with the vapor in the clouds. Her timbre makes it sound as though she’s recalling one of those sad dreams ...

“It was a great year for music and a terrible year for musicians,” I wrote of 2023 last December, and honestly I may as well have said “It was hot in the summer and cold in the winter.” It has been a ...

Something you might not know about the small-batch ice cream biz? The winter months don’t really slow down sales at all. Phil Farzanegan tells me this on the first truly cold day of 2024, an overcast ...

Did you that co-owner/editor Keith Harris is the only regularly published movie critic in all of Minnesota? Sounds wild, and we believe it to be true! As such, movies are a big part of the equation ...

The year may sputter on for another week or more, but as far as Racket is concerned, 2024 ends whenever we close our tabs and slam our laptops shut and crack one open at the end of today. Thanks for ...