Travel

A Cabin That Disappears Into the Pines

Minnesota’s first mirror cabin offers a secluded, design-forward escape in the heart of Cuyuna Country Article by Sarah Knieff | Photography by Jason Ehrreich, Levi Snell, Sarah Bostrom Jake and Meghan Zoesch never imagined they’d end up building one of Minnesota’s most memorable and talked-about cabin experiences. For years, their lives moved along familiar tracks – Meghan reporting and anchoring the news at KARE, CBS58, NBC15, and KAAL, and Jake working in Milwaukee in his family’s auto body...

Life + Culture

Snowfoot's Joy of Winter Movement

An Alpine invention helping Minnesotans rediscover winter Article by Sarah Knieff | Photography by Snowfoot Snowfoot began, as many good inventions do, with a simple annoyance. In the Italian Alps, surrounded by steep climbs, icy ridgelines, and deep winter snow,  Robert Behrens wanted to move the way he moved in every other season — freely,  curiously, without feeling like he had strapped dinner plates to his feet. Traditional  snowshoes allowed him to float on snow, sure, but they forced a...

Health + Wellness

A Natural Alternative to Pain Relief

Get back to doing what you love Article by Sue Baldani | Photography by Lucy Hawthorne After working in cybersecurity for many years and then as a part-time Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Kevin Rebman wanted to continue to help people, but in a different way. Today, he’s a board-certified therapist in massage and bodywork, and the founder and owner of Return to Play Institute.    “I got started in this about 10 years ago,” he says. “I graduated from Northwestern Health Sciences...

Food + Beverage

Kowalski's Markets

We Have the *Real* Meats Article by David Scheller I have tried Kowalski’s Akaushi wagyu rib roast. It tastes as though a nearly impossibly chance sequence of cosmic events cast a little stone marble into some otherwise unremarkable pocket of universe, upon which light and molecular juju gradually softened raw firmament into lush grassland, and later into cattle, and later still into a civilization which produces beef so good that it causes one to reflect on how fortunate they are to occupy a...