Melissa Slachetka, Writer

Potluck Paradise is part history lesson, part cookbook. Opening the book is like opening a time capsule from the middle of the 20th century. MORE »

If you ever wondered why the Twin Cities are covered with train tracks, you will want to check out Milwaukee Road Remembered. Milwaukee Road was the name given to the Midwestern network of trains originating out of Milwaukee and spreading through the Twin Cities, bringing plenty of travelers and freight. The black-and-white cover features an old viewing car and snow-covered train-tracks trailing out into the distance. Captivating to any train lover, the inside pages are covered with early pictures and many, many details. MORE »

Last summer, Tangletown’s garden tour offered gorgeous flowers and art work. Now, in the middle of February, savor a little summer. MORE »

If you haven’t been to the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) lately, that’s understandable: it’s in the basement of a movie theater in Massachusetts. In Master Works: The MOBA Plays, local group Commedia Beauregard collaborated with MOBA to create plays based on select pieces of bad art. Each playwright had one month to write a 15-minute play based on a MOBA painting, and these six shorts are performed in sequence, each starting and ending with a glimpse of the painting on which it’s based. MORE »

“No subject since the days of the Rochester Knockings has stirred New York into so much discussion on the subject of Spiritualism as the late arrest of Mr. Mumler for pretending to take spirit-photographs.” – Banner of Light, May 8, 1869 MORE »