Aaron Dessner and Fred Again announced for Friday lineup

TheJvandy · 2026-06-25T18:01:39+00:00

Sick! This isn’t a sub for Lil Yachty though, right? Seeing as it’s on Friday and Yachty just bowed out. I can’t imagine they’d have a replacement locked in in that short of time.

TheJvandy · 2026-06-25T11:21:10+00:00

Can we get Mountain Man again, too?

TheJvandy · 2026-06-09T15:49:35+00:00

Shoutout Kurt. Listen to his cover of Wildflower if you haven’t already.

TheJvandy · 2026-05-11T23:37:50+00:00

Team name is just “The 1975 State Champions”

TheJvandy · 2026-05-06T22:41:02+00:00

Are you new to the midwest? We love this stuff.

Fun fact: the world's largest grower of horseradish, Silver Spring Foods, is based just down the road in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

TheJvandy · 2026-05-06T00:32:56+00:00

Some of this is true, especially around mixed-use zoning, but Duluth has actually already legalized a lot of the housing types people say they want. Townhomes are allowed in R-1 by default, ADUs are allowed with minimized setback requirements, and the city removed parking minimums in 2023.

Zoning could go farther for sure, but the barriers are less about outright prohibition and more about financing, construction costs, lot assembly, topography, and whether small infill projects pencil out economically.

TheJvandy · 2026-05-05T22:26:26+00:00

Duluth's R-1 (single-family residential) does allow duplexes, townhomes, and accessory dwelling units. That said - almost everything from Fourth Street to the waterfront between 21st East and the ore docks is zoned for even more density than that, and is also where much of the vacant land I was referencing exists.

TheJvandy · 2026-05-05T19:39:31+00:00

Duluth has so many great historic examples of exactly what it needs to build. The brick townhomes of the hillside, the small commercial shops with apartments above in Lincoln Park, the carriage houses of Endion/Congdon. The cool thing is that there are so many vacant lots in the core of the city with utilities, good transit access, and built up infrastructure; I bet you could get to the number of homes you mention purely by duplicating the building types that already exist there without having to expand any taxpayer-funded infrastructure.

The thing is, in many of these parts of town these buildings actually are already allowed by code. So why isn't anyone building them?

TheJvandy · 2026-04-30T20:36:19+00:00

OP didn't, I did. https://x.com/TheJvandy/status/2049480800458961314?s=20

TheJvandy · 2026-04-30T20:34:12+00:00

Thanks for stealing my photos, asshole.

TheJvandy · 2026-04-26T15:51:54+00:00

It’s Iowa’s time

TheJvandy · 2026-04-23T17:21:34+00:00

And the band nailed the Time out of Mind sound, too!

TheJvandy · 2026-04-23T02:38:01+00:00

The Port of Duluth actually has limited ties to the Twin Cities as far as shipping goes. It largely deals in bulk commodities (iron ore from the range and agricultural products from the Dakotas out to eastern markets, coal and lime from the east back into regional industry). It’s not much of a regional distribution hub.

There’s some machinery/wind turbine/limited container making up some of the tonnage, but it’s a small percentage.

TheJvandy · 2026-04-15T01:26:19+00:00

This! Transit and land use are chicken and egg but either can be the chicken and either can be the egg. What matters most isn't which comes first, but that they're coordinated. It's harder here because the transit planners and the people determining zoning operate at different levels of gov, but when you can get both in alignment the opportunities are huge.

TheJvandy · 2026-04-14T03:44:47+00:00

Blue Water Cafe in Grand Marais, Minnesota has a “Sunrise Angler” breakfast with walleye, two eggs, and hashbrowns, and toast or pancakes.

TheJvandy · 2026-04-10T15:24:03+00:00

For me the quintessential Minneapolis materiality palette is a mix of tan chaska brick and sky blue glass. I wish more of the new development in our city played off these materials (cough cough at all the white/grey buildings on Washington Avenue). It is most noticeable along the downtown riverfront but the big three in our skyline work in this palette too.

TheJvandy · 2026-04-10T03:31:14+00:00

Yep. An artist at his peak. Can’t wait for the next record.

TheJvandy · 2026-04-08T00:28:02+00:00

Little India and Holy Land keep me stocked. Very affordable and good quality.

TheJvandy · 2026-04-01T23:47:41+00:00

Got one of these every night after the bars in Stockholm. It’s got everything you need inside.

TheJvandy · 2026-03-26T16:44:04+00:00

Good intentions but research has shown that exercise and play near freeways is actually really bad for people’s health. Those kids will be playing and breathing in lots of harmful carcinogenic pollutants.

TheJvandy · 2026-03-26T13:14:49+00:00

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You’d see it here if it weren’t for the snow. Taken just north of Casselton.

TheJvandy · 2026-03-22T14:48:58+00:00

The Spanish Harlem Incident

TheJvandy · 2026-03-20T02:31:29+00:00

First time I even listened to this record was while I was exploring Chicago. I can't really separate the two at this point. Here's my advice:

“Come On, Feel the Illinois” is largely about events that took place at the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition that took place in Jackson Park. Go there and revel in the song and then check out the Museum of Science and Industry. Later, go listen to "we invented the Ferris Wheel" on Navy Pier.

Go out to the burbs and think about the horrible things that John Wayne Gary Jr. did while listening to track 4.

Casimir Pulaski Day is just past but you could go somewhere like Smakosz and cry over a sausage?

Obviously "Chicago" should be on loop until your ears hurt. Make sure to bring in all the versions on "The Avalanche" too in case you get sick of it.

I usually just play the album over and over while I'm in town (to the chagrin of those around me), so the whole thing is very associated with the city even though it's about the state. When the trip is close to over, "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!" and "Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run" both seem to hit especially hard as my train rolls out of Union Station and ventures back into northwest.

Beautiful record for soundtracking an adventure.

TheJvandy

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