RacketCast Podcast
1) 2025 MN Food/Drink Trends, Triumphs, Catastrophes, and Curiosities Feat. Critic Kirstie Kimball
It's our last podcast ep of 2025!As such, we invited new Racket dining correspondent Kirstie Kimball of beyond beurre blanc to join fellow critic Em Cassel of Racket to hashbrown out the yea...Show More
2) Avoiding Death, Getting Weirder, Releasing Memoirs Feat. Mary Lucia
Wishing you and yours a joyous and spiritually fulfilling Black Friday. Make sure your frenzied consumerism arrives at What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To, the brand-new...Show More
3) Biggest MN Turkeys of 2025
A sincere and gratitude-stuffed "gobble, gobble" to all our RacketCast listeners ahead of this, one of the final episodes before Thanksgiving.As such, we're talkin' turkeyâlocal folks deserv...Show More
4) Bonus: Twin Cities Election Guide Spectacular Feat. Naomi Kritzer
Naomi Kritzer, author of the best Twin Cities election guide for 20+ years, drops by the pod to assess mayoral races, City Council races, Park Board races, and even the surprisingly exciting Boar...Show More
5) The Parkway Pervert Feat. John Waters
Eternally cool director/author/personality John Watersâaka the âPope of Trashâ aka the âPeople's Pervertâ aka the âPrince of Pukeââmakes his triumphant return this Saturday to the Parkway Th...Show More
6) BookCast, Vol. 1
Sometimes, when you're a tiny media outlet with a biweekly podcast, several interview requests fall through and you're left with... three microphones and an hour to fill. And nobody can accuse us of n...Show More
7) The Surprising Afterlife of Alt-Weeklies Feat. Journalists Tricia Romano & Emma Silvers
Alt-weeklies: The four Racket founders/editors used to work at one, City Pages, before Star Tribune Media Co. flushed it and its 40-plus-year legacy down the tubes five years ago. And that fate more o...Show More
8) 2025 MN Vikings Preview for Dummies Feat. Arif Hasan
In the grand tradition of this still-kinda-new podcast, we're bringing you conversations with smart and cool local sportswriters to preview upcoming seasons. The "for dummies" framing? The guests have...Show More
9) Emergency MN State Fair New Food Roundtable!
No time for extensive show notesâthis is an emergency! Listen to all four Racket owner/editors gab for an hour-plus about all the Minnesota State Fair official new foods we gobbled Thursday. Gov....Show More
10) The Wheels on the Bus Feat. Metro Transit
How does public transit work in the Twin Cities? To find out, we invited Metro Transit GM Lesley Kandaras and bus driver Al Chang to our St. Louis Park studio. (Kandaras, a true company woman who has ...Show More