Design and style

At the Twin Cities Daily Planet, we're an edited news publication—but that's where the similarities between us and traditional journalists end. We believe that there's more knowledge to be found in our communities than can be found in any one newsroom, and to that end we aim to empower Twin Cities residents to tell their own story. We want to be your megaphone.

One of my favorite episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the season three entry “The Wish.” In this episode, social queen bee Cordelia returns to Sunnydale High after being impaled by a wayward spike of rebar, but even worse, after being cheated on by her unpopular boyfriend. But even though getting dumped by a social pariah is about the most humiliating thing she could bear, she walks into the hallways with her head held high and wearing her version of the late ’90s power suit: a oxblood leather pencil skirt and jacket, complemented with thick brown eyeliner, a spiky updo, and brown-red lipstick. The look is incredibly severe and wildly dated.

Is there anything tackier than the unnatural hybrid of the sneaker and the high-heeled shoe? In the early 2000s we had those hideous Converse high-top stilettos, and the Manolo Blahnik/Timbaland work boots that Jennifer Lopez wore when she was still “Jenny from the Block” still give me the icks.