Run by Zoo Animal musician and studio engineer Holly Hansen, Heights Coffee Bar in Columbia Heights is an intentional return to an earlier era of locally owned neighborhood businesses and in-person in...

The Heavy Table is a team of writers, photographers, and illustrators telling the stories of food and drink in the Upper Midwest. We publish weekly. Click to read The Heavy Table, by James Norton, a S...

The Jewish Tourist is an occasional series covering the Jewish sights, foods, and experiences I've encountered on my travels. Today we're heading to New York City for bagels, knishes, and an awe-inspi...

How a YA novel shaped my spiritual journey My synagogue recently hosted a talk by Rabbi Adam Chalom about how to define a Jewish book, exploring a wide variety of frameworks. Some were discarded as t...

Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.

I have spent the past several weeks filled with overwhelming grief. For trans and non-binary people whose healthcare, passport access, and dignity is being stripped away. For undocumented immigrants w...

Seven years after quitting my paralegal job, things are still chugging along at Stacy Inc. Over the past few years, I've settled into a groove of covering the Twin Cities food scene for the Heavy Tab...

The record collection isn’t a background feature at the intimate hi-fi bar in northeast Minneapolis, it’s a main focus. Small Hours, which opened last September, is a collaboration between sommelier S...

During my last semester of college, upon realizing that my B.A. in mathematics would be next to useless in the Great Recession job market, I took a couple of education classes. Both shaped the rest of...

There's a good reason Minnesota's football team is named the Vikings—the state is home to more Nordic-Americans than any other state. About 28 percent of Minnesotans, or over 1.6 million people, have...

Another big year down at the ol' news/arts/culture journalism factory.

I love compiling my annual "best things I ate" post because it's a chance to relive the year's most memorable moments. 2024 included trips to Japan and Montreal, an exquisite kaiseki meal and Laotian...

At my synagogue's Hanukkah party last year, there were dreidels on all of the tables to keep kids occupied until the food was served. I idly picked one up and started spinning it, apparently halfway d...

Are they holiday bars, or are they Christmas bars?

Are they holiday bars, or are they Christmas bars?

Some thoughts on December holidays and Christian hegemony Since I converted to Judaism last December, I've spent the past year updating friends, acquaintances, and colleagues on my fairly major shift...

You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...

This riverside north metro 'burb is home to sprawling parks, ample yarn, killer BBQ, and one beloved dinosaur.

The kooky cooky spelling is all over old cookbooks. Why?

'There’s so many small details. I love what I do, but sometimes, it’s like, why didn’t I stick with cupcakes?'

Finding my place in Judaism as a midlife convert, one loaf of challah at a time

Come on in, Booktokers—there's an enemies-to-lovers story with your name on it.

Expensive? Yes. Wholesome? Also yes.