Minneapolis Michael
i bet you never would have guessed, i listened to Festival 8 tonight.
This version of Loving Cup with @Phish & Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings rips so hard, possibly the best version ever.
This does rip. So. Hard. I’m about 6 days behind on this, but bear with me, please.
Festival 8. These guys really know how to put on a festival.
I JUST downloaded the shows tonight and am listening to the “Exile” cover as I type. Amazing.
Franken talks about his smokin’ hot aides - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - City Pages - The Blotter
Put aside, for a moment, the fact that these two aren’t “smokin’ hot” and look at Franken’s response:
Ian Punnet (IP): … (do you have any) comments on having the hottest aides in Washington Senator Franken?
Senator Franken (SF): I have a great staff, and many of the men on the staff are very good looking.
DC needs more smart, intelligent, genuinely funny Senators.
I’m still coming to terms with yesterday’s loss. Watching this ten times in a row helped a little bit.
It’s nice to see people outside of Minnesota slowly start to realize what a million Minnesotans have known all along: Al Franken is (going to be) one hell of a Senator.
easing in
these first few back are going to be quotes, alright?
Think back to when you were ten (or however old you were in 1993). This would’ve blown your mind. And now, for the most part, it’s all rather mundane.
ESPN's Big Plans For Its Local Sports Sites
comScore statistics show that the average number of unique visitors to the ESPN Chicago site for May, June and July (555,000) was more than the averages for the sports sites of the Chicago Tribune (424,000) or Chicago Sun-Times (256,000)
This could get interesting. I figured these local portals would just collect relevant content from across the ESPN empire—it seems they do, to a point—but they’re actually getting into things like high school coverage.
Ben, allow me to add my two cents.
I think ESPN is providing a model, and blazing a trail, for other national media organizations (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, e.g.) to “get local.” And, at the same time, tipping their hand to other media markets. As soon as ESPN enters the top 15 markets - Minneapolis included - (which I believe they have plans to do) they will, as the above stats prove, crush the local media because they have the resources (money, time, people) to do it.
After ESPN has succeeded with this model, expect other national media companies - the Times and WSJ to name two - to follow suit and reap the same benefits (pageviews; revenue).
It’s incumbent upon the Star Tribune, the Pioneer Press and every other large to mid-size daily - and every other local media outlet for that matter - to realize the ONLY way to survive is to get hyper local, and fast. If they don’t, may the content gods have mercy on their souls.
“We’re going to play a tasty setlist for you guys tonight.” And that they did. Tonight, at the Cedar, Megafaun was megafaun(king) awesome.
Even if Favre pans out to be a complete and utter bust in Purple, he’ll still have this pretty awesome Sears spot under his belt.