The first time I noticed their talent was on a friend’s link on Facebook. Next thing I knew, my lips puckered up, my head was bobbing and my heart was pumping as I watched their highly stylized videos. It was like Gummo-meets-rave-techno satisfying. I am talking about Die Antwoord, an Afrikaans zef rap-rave band from Cape Town, South Africa. The first [...]

Editor’s note: This is John Reinan’s weekly marketing column for MinnPost. To see the original, go to http://tinyurl.com/m4nm4e.
About 10 days ago, a surprising new visitor popped up in Lake Harriet in southwest Minneapolis: the Lake Creature. After a week of speculation, the creature was revealed to be the work of artist Cameron Gainer under the [...]

Last week we tweeted about a little whimsy from Taylor’s post about “Writer’s Block Dolphin Hawk.” We subsequently were informed about a world of underground satirical user comments about a shirt with a few wolves and a moon on it in a reply from our friend whom we are indebted to for filling us in, @jaredamay of Twitter. The story about [...]

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Our friends at Brew Creative are finalists for a richly deserved Webby Award, recognizing the top efforts in the online world. You might remember them as the people who created “The Letter,” a holiday greeting that was one of the viral [...]

Our friends at the Minneapolis creative shop Brew have come out with their third annual holiday greeting, and it’s a fun change from the somber tone of their first two.
Titled Our Message of Hope, it’s a great, funny mash-up of sound bites from the leading political figures of 2008. Check it out — it’s only [...]