You may think summer is beer season, and maybe it is with all the lawnmower-beers and deck-chairs with kan koozies, but I think of summer beer season as a little, shall we say, light. Now fall beer season, that’s something complex and brainy, what with all the stouts and porters coming back like a hot pair of riding boots, not to mention some rauschbiers and harvesty hopped beers that just pair nicely with flannel and a wind-whipped fall day.

Primp at West End opened this week. MSP Magazine's Allison Kaplan shares her sneak peek at the store where virtually everything is under $100.

Nancy Lyons and Meghan Wilker are technology experts, speakers, authors, creators of Geek Girls Guide, and it’s all led to this: their first pair of reading glasses, designed in collaboration with Minneapolis-based Eyebobs.