Vol 21 Issue 1006
Published 3/15/2000 through 3/21/2000
Hell on Wheels (Cover Story)
From small-town Lois Lane to south Minneapolis waitress to city-hall power broker: Lisa McDonald has come a long way. Now is she ready to go full throttle?
Cyanide Pact (City Beat)
The Minneapolis river terminal agrees to clean up its poison salt piles.
Off Beat
Author, Author!, Positively Fifth Street, and Timber!
Snafu U (City Beat)
The University of Minnesota's new computer system goes $22 million over budget--and the glitches still aren't fixed.
Pastrami Divine (Eaters' Digest)
Looking beyond toaster oven kosher hot dogs. Cecils Delicatessen and Restaurant, St. Paul and Zaroff's Delicatessen Restaurant, Minnetonka
Get Up for the Download (Arts Feature)
Searching for a new network of fans, local bands tune up, log on, and drop out.
Beatbox Hero (Music)
Rahzel continues the hand-to-mouth tradition of the human turntable.
Taming the Jungle (Music)
With Treader, Spring Heel Jack make an etude out of electronica.
Chamber Pop (Music Notes)
A gorgeous, gifted band called Rachel's reinvents indie-rock with strings. Just don't call them classical.
The Big Pink (Bringing It All Back Home)
Years after big-label Balloon Guy deflated his passion for making music, Matt Olson returns to his songcraft in Smattering.
Blowin' in the Wind (Film)
Tumbleweeds takes the mother-daughter genre neither here nor there.
Carnage, Inc. (Film)
A new documentary grapples with the real violence behind the most fabricated of sports--pro wrestling.
To Be Real (Film)
After a string of meta-roles, Julia Roberts gets back to work in Erin Brockovich.
Ich Bin ein Berliner (Theater)
Killing them in Berlin: Homesick comedian Ari Hoptman checks in.
The Damned (Theater)
Oedipus is born again on a plantation; Rashomon looks for truth onstage.
Take My Life--Please (Dance)
A dance company looks at the creeping pathos of Catskills comedy.
