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Jeremy Iggers's blog

Bandeja Latina - Ecuadorian Mixed Grill - at La Cocina Latina

By Jeremy Iggers, TC Daily Planet

If you want to eat where your favorite chef hangs out, I hear the place to go is Isaac Becker's 112 Eatery.MORE »

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Java Train: A Hidden Gem in Como Park

By Jeremy Iggers

I suppose that if I lived in St. Paul instead of Minneapolis, I wouldn't think of Pascal Street as being the middle of nowhere, but stumbling across the Java Train in the Como Park neighborhood was all the more pleasurable for being unexpected.MORE »

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Bar La Grassa: Food, romance and the romance of food

By Jeremy Iggers

I love Bar La Grassa, the new Italian trattoria that replaced Babalu at 800 N. Washington Ave., but I can't help but be struck by the contrasts. Babalu was made for romance - a nightclub with exotic cuisine, hot Latin jazz, and sexy dancing - the perfect spot to start a date that ends the next morning.MORE »

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Church supper season is here! Tell me about your favorites

By Jeremy Iggers, TC Daily Planet

Biking down Franklin Ave. yesterday, I spotted this sign in front of Bethany Lutheran Church, 2511 E. Franklin, advertising its all-you can eat $5 spaghetti dinner on Thursday, October 29, which reminded me that this is the start of church supper season.MORE »

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Saigon Restaurant and the Future of News

By TC Daily Planet

How is this for serendipity: I was working on a presentation on the future of community media that I am giving next week at a conference called Images and Voices of Hope and I decided to take a break for lunch with my friend Ron at the Saigon Restaurant in St. Paul.MORE »

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Patio dining at Ngon

by Jeremy Iggers | August 11, 2009 • Ngon Vietnamese Bistro on University Ave. in St. Paul is becoming one of my favorite Vietnamese restaurants. The little storefront on the corner of University and Avon has first-rate renditions of a lot of the same staple rice and noodle dishes as many of the pho joints around town, but it also has a lot of amenities that you can't find at any of the other noodle houses, including a bistro ambiance with original art on the walls, an enclosed patio with shady umbrellas, a great list of Minnesota microbrews on draft, and a big selection of organic wines from around the world. MORE »
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Sake testing at Giapponese

by Jeremy Iggers | August 7, 2009 • That was fun. When Henry Chan invited me out to Giapponese for a sake tasting, I thought it was just going to be Henry and some pals sitting around the sushi bar tossing back a few cold ones.MORE »
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Hot Plate: Art gallery or restaurant?

by Jeremy Iggers | 7/27/09 • Is it an art gallery? Is it a Restaurant? This much is sure: the Hot Plate Diner at 52nd and Bloomington has the most impressive collection of paint-by-numbers art I have ever seen. At least five different images of Jesus, two of the Virgin Mary, and oodles of poodles, cocker spaniels and sad-eyed clowns. The buttermilk pancakes with caramelized pecans were just about perfect.MORE »
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NEWS DAY | Homes at risk in Minnesota / Dragons, dinosaurs and Quist / Students vs. superintendent candidate

By Mary Turck, News Day

Minnesotans losing homes A record 92,500 Minnesota homes are either in foreclosure or in danger of foreclosure, reports the Star Tribune. Altogether, that's just over ten percent of the 900,000 home loan mortages in the state.  Some 62,000 mortgage holders were behind don their mortgages during the third quarter. MORE

• Minnesotans losing homes Foreclosure and delinquency rates at record levels
• Dragons, dinosaurs and Quist Allen Quist is back, as a far-right First District candidate
• SPPS superintendent candidate sees no relation between race, achievement gap

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News you can use

NEWS YOU CAN USE | Click for food shelves!

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

My friend Ken writes "I know that food shelves are really hurting this year," and then passes along a painless way to send donations:MORE »

KARE 11 & Land O'Lakes are donating $1 for every person who clicks on their web site.   Go to the website listed below and on the right side of the screen (at the top) there is the green area where it says:   You Click, We Donate.   It's that easy. Please pass to all of your friends.

Thanks, Ken!

THEATER | Barbara Berlovitz's "Stories as Told in a Bed": An intimate and sublimely humorous journey

By Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet

It is tricky business reviewing a work in progress, putting the writer in a barely tenable position. How can you be fair to the playwright, casting comment on a script that's still in development? Critique the weaknesses and you're a villain for kicking the play's legs out from under it before it's had a chance to actually stand on them. Praise the strengths and you're a cheerleader clapping the author on the back before the job's finished being done.MORE »

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Stories we are working on

These are some of the stories we are working on. If you would like to contribute information or opinions, please e-mail the writers!

• Emerald ash borer Ramsey and Hennepin Counties are under quarantine for Emerald Ash Borer.  Have you been affected? Email sheila@tcdailyplanet.net

• Thanksgiving recipes No - not the turkey and the pumpkin pie. We're looking for your favorite non-traditional recipe, like Aunt Harriet's vegetarian non-meat loaf. Send them to editor@tcdailyplanet.net

• What's your story? Is there a story you'd like to write? Or a story you think we should be covering? Email editor@tcdailyplanet.netMORE »