Vol 18 Issue 888
Published 12/10/1997 through 12/16/1997
UFF DUH! Minnesota is as Minnesota Does (Cover Story)
We offer you a compilation of recent local missteps compiled with one overriding principle in mind: Who said humor had to be in good taste? Click onward to the 1997 Tongue-on-the-Flagpole Awards.
City Pages Darwin Awards (Cover Story)
There's no accountability to most Darwin Awards, so we decided to keep it simple: All of the following incidents were taken straight from headlines across the world.
Don't Let Them Eat Cake (Page 3)
Home is Where the Heart--Er, Hearts--Are (Page 3)
Monkey See, Monkey Do (Page 3)
The Minneapolis City Council's Lame Ducks Come Up With Some Lame new Street Names. To Wit: Their Own.
Reversal of Fortune (Page 3)
And Topping the List: A Lump of Coal! (Public Domain)
For Immediate Release from the Mall of America.
Gang Bang (News)
A growing list of "gang-related" exemptions to due process is evidence of courts' willingness to buy into anti-gang hysteria, says attorney Keith Ellison.
Last Stop Shop (News)
North Minneapolis boasts businesses, social-service agencies, homes, and just about everything else a neighborhood needs. Everything except viable supermarkets.
The Pretenders (Clinton Watch)
You'd think that Clinton's decision amounting to a death sentence for thousands of HIV-positive Americans might generate a public outcry. Instead, the chattering classes were obsessed with Dick Gephardt's speech at Harvard.
Voodoo Economics (Media)
Amid all the headline kvetching over a holiday labor shortage, where are the real numbers?
The Bully Pulpit (Sports)
This year, even the patsies make Clem Haskins nervous.
The Defense Rests (Sports)
Two Short For Comfort (Sports)
The Wolves learn that three great players don't make a great team.
Ted Cook's Family of Alchemists (Eaters' Digest)
Some customers have been coming to Ted Cook's for 30 years--and it's not mere sentimentality that draws them back. The barbecue, slow-cooked over a cherry-wood fire, is great.
Twice as Glittering for Half the Stress (Eaters' Digest)
Don't stress out trying to plan New Year's Eve festivities: Just take a look at the party Backstage at Bravo! is planning.
Goodbye, Columbus (Arts Feature)
In two new titles, Winona LaDuke and Jim Northrup weigh tribal rights and wrongs.
The Fourth Wall (Culturata)
Their Eyes Were Watching Guards: 10,000 Things brings commedia dell'arte to the Hennepin County Women's Correctional Facility.
Dial Tones (Music)
Bang a Gong: Harry Partch on one of his musical contraptions.
We, Spy (Music Notes)
Through cosmetic surgery and a new housebound regime, Rachael "Ana" Olson has made herself over for public observation.
American Lesion: American Lesion (CD Review)
Michael Hurley: Snockgrass (CD Review)
Timbaland and Magoo: Welcome to Our World (CD Review)
Cool World (Film)
Bullets Are A Man's Best Friend: Alain Delon is Le Samourai.
Four Funerals and a Wedding (Film)
Here Comes the (Burning) Bride: Shabana Azmi finds forbidden love in Fire.
Holiday Roundup (Theater)
City Pages sums up theater's best bets for the holiday season.
I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas (Theater)
When Santa cuts back on grant money, local theaters turn to their holiday shows to change coal into cash.
Accept No Imitations (Performance)
I Am He As You Are He As You Are Me, And We Are All Together: Danny Hoch mimics all in a show at Walker Art Center.
Hanif Kureishi: Love In a Blue Time (Books)
John Tirman: Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade (Books)
Nanci Kincaid: Pretending The Bed Is A Raft (Books)
Rumer Godden: Cromartie V. The God Shiva Acting Through The Government of India (Books)
Thomas Brussig: Heroes Like Us (Books)
