Vol 20 Issue 982
Published 9/29/1999 through 10/5/1999
Against the Grain (Cover Story)
Northern States Power’s deal to turn alfalfa into energy goes up in smoke.
Off Beat
Heck, Renting's Simpler Anyway and The Stain Masters.
Trailer Hitches (City Beat)
Murky water, hard-nosed rules, and a whirlwind of lawsuits in a Monticello mobile-home park.
Wrestling With Immunity (City Beat)
Minnesota has a code of ethics for its executive branch. It just doesn't apply to the governor.
Paved With Good Intentions (Browser)
CitySearch prepares to replace Sidewalk with something more concrete.
My Own Private Quang (Eaters' Digest)
Now I've got to tell everybody, and the hordes will zoom in. I called it first! Go find your own restaurant! Mom! They're bugging me! Quang Restaurant, Minneapolis
Pictures for the People (Arts Feature)
A series at the Walker reveals the revolutionary power of Brazil's Cinema Novo.
Bad Chemistry (Music)
The Chemical Brothers give creative electronica a beat-down.
Lab Culture (Music)
The revolution will not be: Stereolab.
Fine Line (Bringing It All Back Home)
For 30 years Milo Fine has been improvising music--and revising himself.
The Powder Keg (Film)
Cabaret Balkan and Black Cat, White Cat explode NATO's vision of Yugoslavia.
Kusturica Keeps the Peace (Film)
Kusturica's Black Cat, White Cat is a relentless slapstick comedy whose cast of caricatures engage in an endless series of fracases and pratfalls.
American Booty (Film)
Exploring the sordid side of suburbia--again.
Double Trouble (Theater)
First Ladies of Ramsey County and Edith Stein: In the middle of the middle of nowhere?
Mississippi Masala (Art)
The Soap Factory launches a raiding party on stuffy art; the Weisman maps our cultural biases.
Home and Far Away (Books)
Chang-rae Lee's new novel plumbs the pain of a buried past.
The Tower of Babble (Books)
By creating a detective with Tourette's syndrome, Jonathan Lethem addresses the mystery of language.
