About Jim Walsh
Jim Walsh is an award-winning author, journalist, writer, and songwriter from Minneapolis. A columnist for the Southwest Journal and regular contributor to MinnPost.com, his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, and many other publications. He is the author of Fear & Loving in South Minneapolis; Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes: Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits; Gold Experience: Following Prince in the ’90s; and The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting. A father of two (Henry and Helen!) and sometime teacher at the Loft Literary Center, Walsh is the ringleader behind the longtime singer/songwriter showcase The Mad Ripple Hootenanny. His new band, Jim Walsh and the Dog Day Cicadas, has recorded two releases, “Songs For The Band To Learn” (2017) and “Shout It Out To You” (2022). He lives in Minneapolis with his partner Mary Beth Hanson and their two cats, Rumi and Rilke.
Articles written by Jim Walsh
Uneasy Rider
Steps to take if you’re in a bicycle accidentSteven C. Lee, a personal injury attorney with an eponymous firm in Austin, gets approximately 50 bicycle accident phone calls a year, of which he takes on approximately 10 as clients. As a cyclist himself, he’d rather you didn’t get in an accident in the first place and offers the best preventative measures he knows, including: “Don’t be aggressive, because the bicyclist will always lose to the car,” and “Make yourself visible. I see more fashion than safety out there. Make sure …
A People Person
Kaori Tanabe Eder brings an international background to her family law practiceSome turn to the law because they’re inspired by Atticus Finch or Perry Mason, some simply to make money. For Kaori Tanabe Eder, the initial push had a little something to do with sushi. When she was young, during a trip to the United States, the family went to a sushi restaurant where the chef mentioned that a nearby mother and daughter came there every weekend. “When my dad asked what they did for a living,” Eder remembers, “the chef told us that the mom was a family law …
Understanding the Job
Joe Rose went from firefighter and medic to repping themAs a young man, Joe Rose’s desire to help others launched his first career as a firefighter and paramedic, which led to his current calling as an employment and labor attorney. His credo: “Working Hard for Working People.” “I’m a true believer,” says Rose, a husband and father of two. “In my world, in the employment realm particularly, you usually pick a side. You’re either all plaintiff—and you represent only the employees suing the employers—or you’re all defense, …
Not Just Trying to Make a Living
Hank Sherrod reps those hurt by police and prisonsThe first headline on Hank Sherrod’s eponymous firm website says what he does: “I Hold Law Enforcement and Jails Accountable.” The second says why he does it: “I Don’t Like Bullies.” “People that I represent, for the most part, feel abused,” explains Sherrod. “They are arrested for something they didn’t do, or they get assaulted because they had the temerity to talk back to a police officer.” These clients, Sherrod says, wind up in a deposition, where they see the police …
Know Your Vet Benefits
In Texas, they include everything from health care to burialDaphne Silverman is always delighted to talk veterans benefits. “I actually don’t practice in that area, but I did my own claim,” says Silverman, a former lieutenant commander and JAG officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve and, she adds, a “100% disabled veteran.” An attorney at Pattison Law Firm in Austin, she’s the chair of the State Bar of Texas’ Disability Rights and Issues Committee, which oversees a subcommittee that gathers resources to help veterans. Silverman suggests vets …
Serenity Now
Before launching a career in aviation law, Vanessa G. Aaron sailed the worldDuring the COVID pandemic, Vanessa G. Aaron and husband Ed took social distancing to new lengths. For two years, beginning in September 2020, they sailed their boat, Serenity, up and down the Eastern Seaboard and into the Caribbean. “I love new experiences. I love new adventures. I am a constant learner and a very curious person,” says Aaron, now an associate at Bullivant Houser in Portland. “I will look at things like, ‘I wonder what it’s like to do that?’” Aaron had graduated …
A Star is Reborn
Josie Leinart’s acting chops serve her well in law and on social mediaThe best actors make it look easy. Josie Leinart knows there’s more to it. “A lot of people don’t give actors enough credit for working hard,” says Leinart, a corporate and sports attorney whose credits under the name Josie Loren include appearances in film (17 Again), television (Hannah Montana, NCIS, The Mentalist), and a four-year starring turn in the teenage gymnast series Make It or Break It. “My god, it is hard work,” she says. “It is countless hours of being in scene, study …
The Lesson
What Tracey L. Brown learned from her famous fatherGrowing up in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, Tracey L. Brown was a preteen Prince fanatic whose parents paid for her to take clarinet lessons. She hated them. After four weeks, she says, “I told my father I wanted to quit, and he said I needed more stick-to-itiveness.” The clarinet lessons went away. But the term stick-to-itiveness? That stuck. “He always used it,” says Brown, of her late father Ron Brown, a trailblazer in the Democratic Party who served under President Clinton as …
‘I Still Love the Game’
The basketball exploits of Julian X. CamperIt was only last year that 32-year-old Julian Camper set aside his dreams of playing professional basketball. A burly 6-4, 260-pound power forward/center who starred for the Division II Cal State San Marcos Cougars as a full-scholarship senior in 2015, Camper has spent the last decade playing pickup basketball in his hometown of San Diego, with regular summer forays to Los Angeles for the legendary pro-am Drew League. There, he’s competed against semipros and pros like the Chicago Bulls’ …
From Nothing to NIL
Why CK Hoffler navigates the wild west of name-image-likeness lawFor more than a century, the NCAA maintained the purity of college sports by ensuring that, in this increasingly lucrative field, athletes retained their amateur status by getting paid squat. That all changed in a big way in June 2021, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in NCAA v. Alston that it is illegal for the NCAA to limit education-related payments to its students. Meaning NCAA athletes, some of whom are internationally known, can now profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL, for …
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