Vol 19 Issue 918
Published 7/8/1998 through 7/14/1998
Railroaded (Cover Story)
What costs $400 million, seats 20,000, and makes local politicians go all mushy? Hint: It's not a new stadium.
Let There Be Light (City Beat)
A Minneapolis church and city leaders square off over windows.
Not His Forte? (City Beat)
Minneapolis's troubled Fire Department gets a new boss with some old baggage.
Pasta the Way It's Meant To Be (Eaters' Digest)
Broders' trenette con pesto alla genovese are elementally satisfying, the way a full-blossom sunflower is.
Obscure Objects of Desire (Arts Feature)
Queer indies broke ground at San Francisco's gay/lesbian film fest. But will they come out in the Twin Cities?
Road to Roxie (Culturata)
Feeling gay...er, happy: Road-sters Bing Crosby and Bob Hope with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.
Exile from Guyville (Music)
The hand that rocks the mixing board: The Spinanes' Rebecca Gates is a one-woman band on the album Arches and Aisles.
Harmonic Convergence (Bringing It All Back Home)
In Sliver's emotional pop, girls and boys are on the same team.
Hit That Perfect Phrase Boy (Sugar High)
Tori! Tori! Tori!: She'd rather die than see you controlled?
Kids (Sound Check)
The Foxfire Coffee Lounge enters the local music scene serving up all-age shows to the masses.
Missing Persons (Film)
Now you see 'em, now you don't: The tomboy schoolgirls of Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Smells Like Grave Robbing (Film)
Endless blameless: The homme futile of Kurt and Courtney.
Birth, School, Work, Death (Theater)
Joie de vivre: Newborns Aaron Landsman and Todd Griffin learn to follow directions from "Your Life: An Owner's Manual" in the two-man comedy Wreckage.
The Wedding Present (Performance)
Ladies night: Cassandra Shore and her Jawaahir Dance Company depict the Saudi Arabian Haflat al-Zaffaf.
The Once and Future King (Books)
The legend continues for "The Most Written About Human Being Who Ever Lived" with the release of The Muhammad Ali Reader.
Mark Slouka: Lost Lake (Books Roundup)
Karla Kuban: Marchlands (Books Roundup)
A 15-year-old girl down and out running the ranch--and pregnant, too. First-time novelist Karla Kuban takes us to the hard-luck Western plains.
Kate Summerscale: The Queen of Whale Cay (Books Roundup)
Read about Joe Carstairs, one of this century's most unique, and nearly forgotten, women.
Pagan Kennedy: The Exes (Books Roundup)
A new Gen X book hits the shelves: Page to page, it's an engaging and enjoyable read.
How the west was lost (Book Ends)
Rick Bass steps back from the eloquently wrought pleas for the environment and tries a different tactic: He creates a story about the wilderness.
