WCCO Lifestyle: How To Wow Summer Guests
From hot dishes to summer cabins, in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Minnesotans have their own flare for lifestyle. New to Saturday Mornings is WCCO's Lifestyle Segment.
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From hot dishes to summer cabins, in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Minnesotans have their own flare for lifestyle. New to Saturday Mornings is WCCO's Lifestyle Segment.
The food trucks are back on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Even though they usually open their windows at 11 a.m., the work starts early in the morning. You have to get up early to begin the day with with Christina Nguyen and Birk Grudem from Hola Arepa, and Natalie Coleman and her team from Dandelion Kitchen.
Cronuts -- the new "it" food is debuting in Minneapolis. The newest pastry sensation has made its way into the Twin Cities. Cronuts are the perfectly blended treat that combines croissants and donuts.
My thoughts and feelings on Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing are conflicted. On the one hand, I found the movie tiresome and awkward on first viewing, like watching your roommate teach his cat how to play fetch. Yet, after learning how Much Ado was made, I grew to like the project more, as it has some real punk rockish, let's-make-a-movie spirit -- the exact stuff I'd like to see more of both in Hollywood and the indie scene.
If you don't automatically know what I'm talking about when I say "Old Economy Steve," odds that you actually are an Old Economy Steve just increased. To bring you up to speed, Steve is a meme that surfaced in the last couple months.
Do you have plans from 8:58 p.m. Saturday to 5:26 a.m. Sunday? Thousands of Minnesotans will be heading to St. Paul's Lowertown for the Northern Spark Art Festival. What's up with the 8:58 start time and 5:26 a.m. end time? It's an all-night festival. That's the exact sunset and sunrise time according the the Farmer's Almanac.
The Minnesota Vikings are working out final details with the University of Minnesota to play two NFL seasons at TCF Bank Stadium. The Vikings need a temporary home while they build a new $1 billion stadium in downtown Minneapolis.
You could call 612 Brew the new kid on the block. It opened to the public in February, in a renovated building in northeast Minneapolis. Jamey Rossbach and three of his buddies started 612 Brew after spending years making beer at home.
After a year of recording a super secret album, Nine Inch Nails is ready to hit the road on a new tour.
There is now another reason to go to Como Zoo. The new Gorilla Forest just opened Thursday morning at the St. Paul facility. There are seven gorillas in the exhibit, and six are new to Como Zoo. The Gorilla Forest is the largest all-mesh gorilla enclosure in North America.
Locally made art will be popping up all over Maple Grove this summer, and there's a way for you to get involved. The art installations will be featured in windows all over the city, and the opening reception for the interactive installation will be on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
There's a new title for an already decorated restaurant in downtown Minneapolis Thursday morning. Butcher and the Boar was just named the No. 1 seller of Knob Creek single barrel bourbon in the entire world. They held an exclusive tasting to celebrate Wednesday night, and our cameras were allowed inside.
A young actress will make her national debut at the Guthrie Theater opposite Vincent Kartheiser of TV's "Mad Men." Ashley Rose Montondo has joined the cast of this summer's new production of "Pride and Prejudice."
Somewhere along the line, Taylor Robert decided that singing along with a guitar impresses the girls more so than singing Pavarotti, so he begins writing acoustic music while becoming "obsessed" with blues, soul and rock.
One of the best things about the recent influx of Twin Cities food trucks is that if you wait long enough, you'll find a truck serving something from just about every part of the world. Answering our prayers for a taste of India, newcomer Hot Indian Foods has just hit the pavement.
