Vol 19 Issue 927
Published 9/9/1998 through 9/15/1998
Rack 'em up (Cover Story)
Forget the slop. Forget the low-life hustle. Ranked No. 4 in the world and climbing, Jimmy "The Kid" Wetch shoots pool like nobody's business.
State Writes (Scrawl Feature Story)
Here at Scrawl headquarters, we've forgone the phony ballots and blue-ribbon committee and cut straight to the whim. The end result? The Great Minnesota Authors Issue.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ (Scrawl Feature Story)
Peanuts and the monstrous, infantile reductions of neurosis
ELEANOR ARNASON (Scrawl Feature Story)
Moving into the house of the future
HONORABLE MENTIONS (Scrawl Feature Story)
Also of note: A selective listing of honorable mentions
J.F. POWERS (Scrawl Feature Story)
The sins of the fathers
JOHN BERRYMAN (Scrawl Feature Story)
The dreamer wakes
LOUISE ERDRICH (Scrawl Feature Story)
The lay of the land
MERIDEL LESUEUR (Scrawl Feature Story)
Horses, catgut, and beer
SIGURD F. OLSON (Scrawl Feature Story)
Forgetting the seriousness of living
SINCLAIR LEWIS (Scrawl Feature Story)
Exile on Main Street
THOMAS MCGRATH (Scrawl Feature Story)
Destroy the dictionaries
TIM O'BRIEN (Scrawl Feature Story)
Everything is wrong
Crapped Out (City Beat)
A dispute over street gambling has downtown bar owners clamoring for cops.
Hot Pursuit (City Beat)
Minneapolis police say the chase that ended in the deaths of two bystanders on I-94 was by-the-book. Some other cities are throwing out that book.
The Bleacher Bum's Don Quixote (Sports)
Julian Loscalzo has launched a guerrilla campaign to save our national pastime--by getting himself appointed as Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Fish Out of Water (Eaters' Digest)
Mac's Fish & Chips keeps it basic and humble with halibut filets so crisp you could spring a quarter off them.
Bring in the Noise (Arts Feature)
From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety.
Shoot Rock Stars (Culturata)
60-year-old photojournalist Jim Marshall headlines the upcoming display of rock-affiliated photography at pARTs Photographic Arts.
Hello Pasty (Music)
Is the white minstrelsy of the Insane Clown Posse more than skin-deep?
Greazy does it (Sound Check)
Greazy Meal gets hot, Gear Daddies reunite (briefly), and Random Radio pulls the plug.
Around the World in 12 Days (Film)
Based on the long-standing collaboration of producer Ismael Merchant and director James Ivory, "Merchant-Ivory" is in some circles a knee-jerk adjective.
His & Hers (Film)
Let's Talk About Sex and Rounders are two films marooned on Venus and Mars.
Van Damme is the Bomb (Film)
Jean-Claude Van Damme visits the Twin Cities to promote Knock Off, his latest action movie.
Free Verse (Theater)
Based on the poetry of Cambodian refugee (and current Eagan resident) U Sam Oeur, this performance attempts to recreate the immediacy of his work with a chamber opera.
Simply Stated (Theater)
At first glance, many aspects of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company seem surprisingly understated for such a world-renowned group.
