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A Book for Locals who Love Being Local

by Jill Schoepf
posted on Jul. 22, 2008 - 1:28pm

With a few novels under his belt, Minneapolis literatus Bart Schneider tackles a type of local mystery fiction that swings somewhere between the present and the future...the very, very near future.

Franco-American Relations, Indeed

by Jill Schoepf
posted on May. 08, 2008 - 3:19pm

A smattering of bonjours and soft smiles accompanied the light, nervous energy that breezed through the Alliance Française this particular Monday morning. Huge croissants and berries lay untouched on the table as hosts and hostesses pinned tricolored nametags to their jackets and blouses.

“Open-Source Christianity”

by Jill Schoepf
posted on Jan. 23, 2008 - 4:10pm

The place was mostly filled up by five o’clock, with solemn-eyed hipsters, middle-schoolers, and graying seniors seated on a motley assortment of older sofas arranged in rings. Wine bottles and plump bread loaves sat on scattered coffee tables, which, along with antique rugs and lamps, contributed to the overall feel of a living room (albeit a sizable one). A man with slicked-back salt-and-pepper hair half-shouted greetings to a gangly youngster.

Word Factory

by Jill Schoepf
posted on Jun. 25, 2007 - 12:00am

[Aquarium bubbling] … [chairs squeaking] … [computer keys clicking] … These sounds are indications of productivity at CaptionMax, Inc., the Midwest’s only closed-captioning company. 

Long before CaptionMax moved into their capacious digs in Minneapolis’s Warehouse District, founder and president Max Duckler earned his first entrepreneurial dollar (in 1993), just months after installing captioning software onto a computer in his five-year-old son’s bedroom.

Feist

by Jill Schoepf
posted on May. 29, 2007 - 12:00am