Jeff Johnson

Wednesday is library day for my son’s second-grade class. Each child chooses two books from the school’s collection and keeps them for a week. There’s no particular pattern or theme to the titles Gus...

A comical dialogue with a personification of the state of Minnesota.

Minnesota Monthly editor Jeff Johnson puts on the dog in this month's column.

A quiz from Minnesota Monthly editor that you should take after reading this month's issue.

If history is any guide, we’ll probably get a few unsigned letters of criticism about this month’s issue.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Hollywood in my many years of waiting for movies to wend their way from theaters to video to cable to free late-night TV, it’s that boffo films...

What you see  above is the opening spread from our November 2005 feature “Game Show,” in which writer Dennis Cass chronicled the 2004 Minnesota Governor’s Deer Hunting Opener. This spread, conceived and executed under...

Musings on the Da Vinci Code from the hard-boiled perspective of Jackie "Big Verb" Legazzi.

Editor Jeff Johnson goofs off a bit for the common good.

I don’t know about you, but when I stay at a B&B, rustic lodge, or cozy cabin, I always hope there’s a guest book. Not because I want to write about my stay; nobody...