Letter From the Editor

When Dr. Rajiv Tandon was growing up in India, his father was a civil servant and every three years he would move the family from one place to another. Each time they moved to a new government bungalow in a new town, the first thing his father would do is plant papaya...

“Thanks to the innovators,” reads the message on the video montage playing at Alpha Video headquarters in Eden Prairie, where we visited for this issue’s cover story. The people highlighted in that video are intriguing, as are those for whom various conference rooms...

I still remember when Lisa Bollin, CEO of Cowgirl Tuff Co. in Cokato, strutted into Winthrop & Weinstine’s conference room in downtown Minneapolis wearing glitzy jeans of her own design and a fabulous jacket bejeweled with turquoise. She blew away the assembled...

One day a couple of years ago, Nadya Nguyen was so busy she didn’t have time to eat or drink. “I got so dehydrated, I almost passed out on the bus ride home. For the busy lifestyle that all of us are living it’s hard to track what we drink,” she said. That’s busy,...

Here’s what I did on my summer vacation, or to be more specific, on my summer travels. For a diehard reporter like me, every encounter is a story, whether I’m on assignment at an ultimate fighting match, on lunch break at a fast-food restaurant or on an annual mystery...

Those people born roughly between 1980 and 2000 who now make up the largest segment of the workforce. I’m a baby boomer myself, and I know not everyone in my generation can say the same. You hear it all the time: people over 50 complaining that their younger...

One of the saddest days in Twin Cities dining history was this past New Year’s Eve, when I joined a full room of denizens on the last day for Vincent A Restaurant, the celebrated fine-dining establishment fronting Orchestra Hall and helmed by Vincent Francoual....

Recalls Angie Bastian, founder of Boom Chicka Pop, formerly known as Angie’s Kettle Corn until a re-branding campaign transformed the Mankato-based firm. “There is no imaginable narration that I could think of that would have brought me here.” Yet there she was,...

It’s a sickening feeling, and one I first experienced paging through Glamour magazine back in the day. No, I never should have worn gauchos, not to mention culottes, and I know that now. No, I never should have worn a vertical-striped red and white jumpsuit, even...

Like you, I’m bombarded with offers supposedly designed to reward my loyalty to various businesses, yet I was thinking recently how most of those programs actually turn me off.  The last thing I want is another code to punch in or email to clutter up my jam-packed...