Welcome to the stories page! I love to write, and every once in a while I’ll post an essay here. If you have written something arts-, culture- or entertainment-related, and you’d like people to read it, please send and if it fits, I’ll put it on the menu!
BY ANNE
Years ago I was invited to dinner at a friend’s house. She’s a strict vegetarian who doesn’t drink alcohol and runs several miles a day….
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I can honestly say that, with one notable exception, I am on friendly terms with every one of a fairly impressive list of former “significant others,” and I think I know why. It’s that they all share my affinity for coffee….
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Is it just me, or does anyone else feel a wave of violence coming on when they hear “the sound of the beep”?
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Manicured nails are such a curiosity. Point at someone with a stubby, unmanicured nail, and you might as well be shooting blanks; a hardened arc of Fire Engine Red pierces the soul….
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BY GUESTS
by Matt Peiken , former Pioneer Press staff writer and author of Positive MEinforcement: Shout ‘Me First!’ and Make Every Day All About YOU!
“There’s death in every opera, and if there isn’t, there should be—preferably before the opera is written.”
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by Jesse Wolf Hardin , a contemporary spiritual teacher, environmental educator and storyteller living in New Mexico.
This story appeared in The Edge Newspaper September 2001.
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FOUND ELSEWHERE
By Ted Loos. Posted June 8, 2006.
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by Chris Jones in Esquire , October 2006.
The best bar in America isn’t Irish. It isn’t in a strip mall. It isn’t the sort of place that charges an outrageous cover for people to stand around in black light pushing back shooters out of test tubes…it has a sign on its yellow-brick exterior that points the way to Our Lady of Lourdes, cast in the red-neon glow of another that reads LIQUORS…. The best bar in America is Nye’s Polonaise….
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by Rick Nelson, columnist for the Star Tribune .
This story appeared in the June 2006 issue of Food & Wine. Includes top 5 restaurant and hotel “hotlists.”
There’s more to Minnesota than extreme weather conditions and Prairie Home Companion. Suddenly, Minneapolis is the most exciting architectural hub in America, with brand-new buildings by the likes of Jean Nouvel and Cesar Pelli— and world-class restaurants to go with them.
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The Ivey Award Essays
These essays also are posted on mnartists.org .
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Links:
[1] http://www.nadfm.com/node/1
[2] http://www.nadfm.com/node/1
[3] http://www.nadfm.com/node/36
[4] http://www.nadfm.com/node/36
[5] http://www.nadfm.com/node/37
[6] http://www.nadfm.com/node/37
[7] http://www.nadfm.com/node/141
[8] http://www.nadfm.com/node/141
[9] http://www.nadfm.com/node/196
[10] http://www.mattpeiken.com
[11] http://www.nadfm.com/node/196
[12] http://www.nadfm.com/node/210
[13] http://www.lightstreamers.com/jessewolf.htm
[14] http://www.nadfm.com/node/210
[15] http://www.nadfm.com/node/255
[16] http://www.nadfm.com/node/255
[17] http://www.nadfm.com/node/257
[18] http://www.esquire.com/
[19] http://www.nadfm.com/node/257
[20] http://www.nadfm.com/node/258
[21] http://www.startribune.com
[22] http://www.nadfm.com/node/258
[23] http://www.iveyawards.com/essays.asp
[24] http://www.mnartists.org
[25] http://www.iveyawards.com/essays.asp
