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The Saint Paul Almanac is the singular guidebook to Minnesota's capital city of St. Paul. Celebrate our ma-and-pa restaurants, our corner bars, our small-town manners, and our big-city ways. Read the travel guide that includes festivals and parades, poetry and fiction, recipes and trivia. St. Paul is as much a state of mind as a place. Come on in. Get to know us. The coffee pot is on. Join Mailing List/Edit Subscription
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
12.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Celebrate Saint Paul with the release of the 2009 Saint Paul Almanac!
Featuring food, dance, music, and poets. Family friendly.
Black Dog Café & Wine Bar
4th & Broadway
Lowertown, Saint Paul
Directions & Map
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2009 Saint Paul Almanac on Sale Online on August 20th!
Now in its third year, the Saint Paul Almanac is the only guidebook dedicated solely to Minnesota's capital city. Including a calendar, date book, restaurant reviews, essays and poems about Saint Paul, the Almanac is a rich resource for anyone wishing to explore the cultural and social depths of Saint Paul throughout the year.
Contributors include notable Saint Paulites such as Garrison Keillor, Gordon Parks, Patricia Hampl, Carol Connolly, Jim Moore, Deborah Keenan, Mahmoud El-Kati, Phebe Hanson, and 75 other writers.
The 368-page 2009 Saint Paul Almanac is on sale now for $11.95 online at saintpaulalmanac.com, and will be available in mainstream bookstores, including Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Amazon.com on September 1st, in time for the Republican National Convention, during which 50,000 new visitors are expected to descend upon the city. MORE
Bars and Restaurants: W. A. Frost
Whether you are a native Saint Paulite or a transplant, chances are you have a favorite bartender. Saint Paul is arguably short on some things, but people: when it comes to bars, you can take your pick. From the highest order, with oak and marble features, to scratch-off parlors in old working-class neighborhoods, there is a crowd and atmosphere to suit your taste. And I am not talking about the suburban-chain Cheers bars that sometimes creep past the city line. When I want a bar, I'm thinking the Turf Club (the old '40s dance joint on University and Snelling) or the family-friendly Ranham Bowling Center with its decades-old lanes, 3.2 taps, and charming tarnish. MORE
Recipes: The Fruit Of Summer
My nails have been black for over a week now. This is the price I pay for picking mulberries, whose juice has a staining power the military might want to look into. Under the guilty tree, a (doomed) white car has been parked for the past nine days, and I know from experience that its hood will never be pure white again: pale pink blooms will adorn its surface, souvenirs of its time beneath that tree. Perhaps it's not surprising that the native mulberry, Morus rubra, is disappearing from Saint Paul. If you ask a random sampling of people what they think of when they think mulberry, you'll get a single reply: "Messy." Messy trees that stain automobiles have no place here in 2008, apparently. And that is sad and telling. MORE
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Now accepting Submissions for the 2010 Almanac!
The Saint Paul Almanac wants your recommendations for locally owned tea and coffee houses, music venues and taverns, restaurants and cafés. Please include addresses, a brief description of your choice's virtues, and an indication of its price range—modest ($), moderate ($$), or expensive ($$$).
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