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17 hours ago · Not everyone can be Picked to Click. Last fall, Racket resurrected P2C, as we’ve come to call the long-running “best new bands” poll we inherited from City Pages.The ballots …

6 days ago · Musk Considers Suing Walz for Calling His Nazi Salute a Nazi Salute. Plus more Target DEI fallout, Dark Horse rides into the sunset, and good(ish) news for unions in today's …

Racket is a writer-owned, reader-funded website founded by a group of former City Pages editors in 2021. We trade in the same fun and fearless journalism CP specialized in since 1979: Twin …

Which Mpls Strip Club Did an (Allegedly) Drunken, (Allegedly) Uniformed Pete Hegseth (Allegedly) Visit in 2009? Plus a former Minnesotan uses her bully pulpit, housing costs on the …

Jan 29, 2025 · So, what’s going on with weed these days in Minnesota? A lot, actually. Hemp-derived products like gummies and seltzers have been legal for around three years now, some …

Dec 17, 2024 · Jay Boller's Favorites ‘Oh Yeah, He’s Real’: My Wild Day at the MN Bigfoot Conference. This past Saturday, the fifth-annual gathering attracted around 500 cryptozoology …

Jan 24, 2025 · RacketCast, Ep. 12: Mitch Hedberg Roundtable… Assemble! On the 25th(ish) anniversary of 'Los Enchiladas!,' we gathered three folks who helped make Mitch Hedberg's …

Jun 22, 2023 · WCCO: "Racket MN's "Picks to Click" & election mental health days" November 5, 2024 MPR: "Your guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities" October 14, 2024 …

Dec 12, 2023 · Never equate pageviews with effort. When stories pass through the mysterious vortexes of Google algorithms and social shares, the amount of work put into 'em goes out the …