A rainy day at the Como Zoo and Conservatory.
For its latest listicle, “Where the Hot Babes Are,” Men’s Health Magazine asked all the single ladies in the U.S. to put their hands up, and counted the 10th most in fair St. Paul.
According to their calculations, the Saintly City beat Minneapolis by a long shot for the number of well-educated, gainfully employed hotties living la vida sola.
We’re in the planning stages of a ‘Me - 1, Cancer - 0’ party that will, hopefully, be a full blown prom, and I’m putting the Landmark Center on my wish list of locations, because look at how pretty it is.
weeks101:
Twilight in St. Paul (by jpnuwat)
Hello, beautiful.
justbrad:
wabasha caves in saint paul.
This is on my top 5 most favorite, most beautiful places in the twin cities.
St. Paul Santa Crawl | Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011 at 5pm
AMSTERDAM
BILLY’S ON GRAND
EAGLE STREET GRILLE
GROVELAND TAP
O’GARA’S
PLUM’S BAR
SHAMROCK’S
TIFF’S
Senor Wong in St. Paul will feature a four course, five beer dinner with Goose Island on November 9th. Read on for a menu. Sounds tasty! Makes me want to crack a Matilda right now…
First Course
Opah and Rock Shrimp Ceviche
Red onion, serrano chili, cucumber, cilantro, fresh orange, yuzu juice.
Served with Goose Island Sofie
Second Course
Caramel Apple
Slow-cooked pork cheek, miso-caramel sauce, granny smith apple-chive salad, rice vinegar dressing.
Served with Goose Island Matilda
Third Course
Duck, Duck, Goose…Island
Sichuan pepper crusted breast, duck & foie gras xiao long bao (soup dumpling)
miniature bok choy, oyster mushroom, carrots, black cardamom jus.
Served with Goose Island Pepe Nero
Fourth Course
Chocoflan
Hazelnut cajeta (goat milk caramel), pepita & maria cookie streusel, ripe bananna ice cream.
Served with 2008 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout.
http://senorwong.com/beerdinner.html.
A great write up of some my ‘hood’s divier bars, with adorable art-work.
This is obviously my favorite part:
“The clientele at Honky Mike’s was about one-third cops and one-third bikers. The Union Gospel Mission was nearby, so it was a gospel mission resident bar, too. One night a couple of guys came in to rob the place. They had guns and told the bartenders it was a holdup, and when the guys turned around there were about 30 guns aimed at them — half from the cops, and half from the bikers. And while I cannot confirm this, the police left for a bit while the bikers beat the hell out of them. That’s the story.” (via The Bars of Dayton’s Bluff | The Heavy Table)
shardlow:
When I was a kid, we spent several nights a summer on the John Theodore D, a Sternwheel Riverboat my dad’s business partner built and stored at the Harriet Island Marina. I can remember being very young, three or four, and Howard giving me a captain’s hat, sitting me behind the wheel, and teaching me to steer. The tendency to overcorrect is strong, he said, so you need to focus on a point far away.
I was too young to understand what drunk was, I just knew that everyone on the boat was always in an incredibly good mood. I was, too, because there was an unattended bar soda gun. I mixed all the flavors together and refilled and refilled and got a sugar rush that lasted the whole trip.
I was amazed that we drove 15 minutes and entered a landscape that was seemed totally wild and foreign, and that the real captain had built this boat himself. I’d later learn that he also planned an amazing number of the communities around the metro, even designing a subway system for the Twin Cities that passed the legislature in the ’60s before being killed in committee.
That’s all a very long prologue to saying that I’m thrilled that we have Captain Bob Deck of the Jonathan Padelford, another boat from the same marina, presenting tonight at Give & Take // Lowertown. He’s been on the river since the ’70s - incredible. The rest of the line-up (Wren on vanity plates, Stacy Becker on online dating) is equally good, I just have a soft spot for riverboat captainry.
First photo credit, second photo credit
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to make it to a G&T so I’m excited for tonight, and not just because it’s being held in St Paul. The topics lined up are going to be good.
I’m also looking forward to seeing the CoCo space for the first time.
You’ll be there, right?
