RacketCast
RacketBi-weekly podcast from Racket, the Twin Cities news/arts/culture publication. Featuring hyper-local recaps, reviews, interviews, debates, hot takes, and more from the crew behind your favorite reader-funded, worker-owned media org.
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| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 41 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Entertainment NewsNewsNews Commentary | |||
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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 year that (almost) was in Minnesota food and drink.
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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 memoir from Mary Lucia.
The longtime Twin Cities DJ s... more
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' turkey—local folks deserving of our unenviable "Biggest MN Turkeys of 2025" designa... more
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 Board of Estimate & Taxation races. Study up—Tuesday is Ele... more
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2. John Waters
3. Tricia Romano
4. Emma Silvers
5. Arif Hasan
6. Lesley Kandaras
7. Al Chang
8. Tina Smith
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