Home-grown news delivered fresh everyday -SOLD OUT!

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PICK OF THE MARKET DINNER SOLD OUT!Show your appreciation for the Daily Planet’s menu of the best in home-grown news about the Twin Cities’ diverse communities by joining us this Sunday, at the Black Dog Café at 6:30 p.m. for our “Pick of the Market” benefit dinner. Feast on a gourmet meal prepared by master chef Shelagh Connolly from ingredients she will gather that day from the Saint Paul Farmers Market — where everything has to be produced within 50 miles of town.Meanwhile, contributing members of the Twin Cities Media Alliance, publisher of the Daily Planet, are invited to attend an Aperitif Hour at artist co-op AZ Gallery, located right across the hallway from the Black Dog. The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. and features an appearance by Sen. Ellen Anderson, one of the chief sponsors of the Legacy Amendment. She’ll be on hand to talk about the impact of the amendment on the local arts community. Plus you’ll get a change to view Beth Stoneberg’s cutting-edge “Wood is Good” exhibition.That’s our “Pick of the Market” benefit dinner, 6:30 p.m., Sunday, August 29 at the Black Dog Café in Saint Paul. Continue Reading

Pick of the Market: A “natural partnership” between Twin Cities Media Alliance and the Black Dog Café

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“We’re big supporters of independent media. We really value its importance to our community,” says Sara Remke, co-owner of the Black Dog Café in Lowertown Saint Paul. “So we just feel like it’s a natural partnership.” 

Remke is speaking about the “Pick of Market” dinner taking place at the café Sunday, August 29 at 6:30 p.m. The event is a benefit to raise money for the Twin Cities Media Alliance, the non-profit publisher of this site, the Twin Cities Daily Planet. 

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Murder on the high seas: Divesting in death and destruction

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It’s hard to decide which spectacle was more pathetic.

Was it hapless Eric Holder, the Attorney General who closed the book on torture, illegal surveillance and a host of other crimes committed by the Bush Administration, now bravely announcing the opening of criminal and civil investigations into the British Petroleum oil rig disaster?

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The long journey home: Walking on Air in a Field of Green

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As we are constantly reminded, the United States is a nation of immigrants, justifiably proud of a record of cultural assimilation far more progressive than that of other “advanced” countries like France and Holland.


But as we are now also constantly reminded with each breaking news item about Tea Party gatherings or discriminatory laws enacted in places like Arizona, there is a dark un Continue Reading