On Location of "A Serious Man"

On Location
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My old friend Michael Tezla on location at the Red Owl on East 7th Street during the filming of the Coen Bros. "A Serious Man" The film is a black comedy period piece set in 1967, located in St. Louis Park where the Coen's grew up.

"A Serious Man" follows Larry Gropnik, a Jewish academic played by Michael Stuhlburg and his existential struggle as his wife Judith considers leaving him for his colleague Sy Ableman. Complicating his life, Larry's ne'er do well brother Arthur (played by Richard Kind) is living in the basement and won't leave and his daughter is stealing to pay for a nose job and son is dealing for marijuana.

Habanero Bill Wins Throwdown

My colleagues at Mpls/St. Paul magazine, Steve Marsh, Bill Swanson, and Stephanie March decided to challenge each other under the guidance (or threat) of Food Editor Adam Platt. The resulting winner may be of great surprise given popularly held theories of aging and digestion!

Boulangerie du Paris

My friend Mike is currently living in Paris and running a tech company there. His life in Paris reminds me of when I traveled to Paris to shoot a film back in the 1980s and especially those amazing breads, pastries and coffee's at the Boulangerie.