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2000 Stories by Peter S. Scholtes

• My Own Private Van Sant

  published December 20, 2000

  Finding Forrester's director used to make art--now he uses art to justify fluff. More >>

• Do-Me Thespianism

  published December 6, 2000

  Can a rock band-cum-theater company turn its audience into enlightened perverts? More >>

• In the Company of Flow

  published November 29, 2000

  In the independent hip hop of DefJux, New York's old b-boys meet the sons they never knew they had. More >>

• N'Dour Endures

  published November 15, 2000

  A world-music star from 1970s Senegal finds his place in the age of hip hop. More >>

• Aural History

  published November 8, 2000

  Larry Long overturns the "great man" theory of traditional music, one folk at a time. More >>

• Get Witch Quick Scheme

  published October 25, 2000

  Blair Witch 2 gives up the ghost. More >>

• Walk, Don't Run

  published October 25, 2000

  The oldest crew out of Minneapolis drops the boldest, most self-possessed hip-hop album of the year. More >>

• Descent of Man

  published October 11, 2000

  Dark Days and Decline of Western Civ III look at homelessness as an American underground. More >>

• Fear of Music

  published September 27, 2000

  Can a local CD store with no CDs save record companies from free music? More >>

• Putting the "Prez" Back in Presley

  published September 27, 2000

  The brilliance of El Vez lies in the utter seamlessness of what I'll call his concepts. More >>

• The Candidate

  published September 27, 2000

  Two years after topping polls as a live local favorite, Mason Jennings recasts his tunes in a political key. More >>

• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

  published September 13, 2000

  Benjamin Smoke's documentary study of a cult musician brings the viewer uncomfortably close to real pain. More >>

• Too Close, Too Far

  published September 6, 2000

  Still better known nationally than locally, Next remain the quintessential Minnesota R&B group. More >>

• There Is a Mensch in Spanish Harlem

  published August 30, 2000

  Thirty years after popularizing salsa, piano great Larry Harlow is still Latin music's undiplomatic gringo ambassador More >>

• The Rubber Band

  published August 16, 2000

  Elastica's punk comeback makes something out of saying nothing. More >>

• Boogie Nights

  published August 9, 2000

  Admired by rappers and ravers alike, DJ Boogie brings X-rated "ghetto house" to Minnesota. More >>

• Molly Hatchet

  published August 2, 2000

  In a sad, familiar pattern, Mollycuddle release their best album, then break up. More >>

• Sound Check

  published August 2, 2000

  K-tel goes out of the pop compilation business. Also: Walt Mink lives, and so does Cedarfest. More >>

• Geek Squad

  published July 19, 2000

  X-Men puts its superhero "muties" in charge of flattering the core audience. More >>

• Rave 101

  published July 12, 2000

  Groove fails to make the scene. More >>

• Rhyme out of joint

  published July 5, 2000

  Slug life: The sleepless nights of a hip-hop contender. More >>

• See Johnny Cry

  published June 28, 2000

  The Sex Pistols doc The Filth and the Fury brings punk's founding antichrists down to human scale. More >>

• Mothers of Invention

  published June 7, 2000

  Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon compare notes on motherhood, degradation, and musical longevity. More >>

• Bandstand of the Americas

  published June 7, 2000

  Half a century after a son of Mexican immigrants founded local rock, a new generation of Latinos listens for its own song. More >>

• The Last Unicorn

  published May 31, 2000

  Sean Na Na blows his own horn with dark, potent pop and not-so-ridiculous R&B. More >>