A Minnesota-wines focused wine bar called Minnesota Wine Exchange is coming to Duluth, there’s a good-looking guest speaker list for Fermentation Fest in Reedburg, WI Oct. 12-21 (Sandor Katz, Terese Allen, Scott Buer, etc.), an interesting meditation on the unreadable (to anybody!) Hmong-targeted McDonald’s billboard in St. Paul, a Duluth-area casino cooks up a 2,000-pound burger, a smashing-looking bikes and beer event by Lucid Brewing, Emily’s roundup of 12 great local dishes under $10, and the Well Fed Guide to Life heads out to Social House (here’s our review).