Hijinx and Hearsay: Scenester Stories from Minnesota's Pop Life

Martin Keller is a professional journalist, author, screenwriter, pop culture critic, editor, and columnist. For the past 25 years, he has served as a veteran public relations specialist. Keller covered the arts, business, and cultural affairs for several Twin Cities publications, including Minnesota Monthly, the Star Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, and Twin Cities Reader, and his worked has appeared in such national publications as Rolling Stone, Billboard, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. He is the author of Music Legends: A Rewind on the Minnesota Music Scene and Storms: Tales of Extreme Weather Events in Minnesota.Expertly working with Canon and Leica cameras for more than 40 years, Greg Helgeson has fervently documented some of the most renowned artists and public figures in a variety of disciplines, from international superstars to local legends. His work has appeared in a range of periodicals, including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, Du Monde (Paris), Mojo (England), the Star Tribune, City Pages, and Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, as well as in numerous books and on album covers.Bob Mehr is an award-winning reporter covering music for Memphis's daily newspaper, the Commercial Appeal. He is also the author of Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements. A New York Times best seller, the book earned the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson award for outstanding musical biography. Selected as book of the year by NPR, Rolling Stone, and Amazon, it was also named one of the 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time by Billboard.