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1. News

   The Minneapolis airport lockdown: A million-dollar mistake

   Expert says to expect more expensive errors as security tightens

   By Andy Mannix

   Published: January 13, 2010

   At 2 p.m. on Tuesday last week, the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport went on lockdown when a bomb-sniffing dog sat down in front of a ratty pink bag on a carousel...

2. Feature

   Marijuana steadily creeps toward legalization

   Is D.C. finally ready to let us toke up?

   By Dave Ferrell

   Published: January 13, 2010

   These are not your run-of-the-mill potheads jammed into the long, narrow classroom at Oaksterdam University, a tiny campus with no sign to betray its location on busy San...

3. Blotter

   Star Tribune asks guv candidates for mental health records

   Amid layoffs and a new publisher, the paper finally hits bottom

   By Kevin Hoffman and Hart Van Denburg

   Published: January 13, 2010

   The daily newspaper of Minneapolis has sent gubernatorial candidates an email asking them to disclose their mental health records as well as any past treatment for the use of...

4. Letters to the Editor

   Readers respond to "Baiting Bambi"

   Published: January 13, 2010

   Baiting hasn't done any harm in Texas, it won't do any harm in your state ("Baiting Bambi," 1/6/10). Put it to the voters and quit passing laws that hunters...

5. Mischke

   Resolution

   And the gyms of January

   By TD Mischke

   Published: January 13, 2010

   Greg was staring at himself in the locker-room mirror when he noticed the tall man behind him slipping into a pair of nylon running shorts. His attention shifted from his own...

6. Music

   Gay Beast get ready for first European tour

   Charm to debut at 7th St. Entry release show

   By David Hansen

   Published: January 13, 2010

   On a bitterly cold January afternoon, Gay Beast crowd a Spyhouse three-top. Paper scraps riddled with scribblings clutter the table, and before singer Dan Leudtke, a day...

7. Dish

   Il Gatto replaces Figlio in Uptown

   It's a slick operation, but too many dishes disappoint

   By Rachel Hutton

   Published: January 13, 2010

   The other night, seated in a booth in Il Gatto's clamorous dining room, I reached across the table and scooped up a spoonful of buttermilk ice cream that accompanied a wedge of...

8. Movies

   Denzel Washington can't save The Book of Eli's warped theology

   Film presents world as post-apocolyptic ghetto

   By Nick Pinkerton

   Published: January 13, 2010

   Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and an African American father. With such a background, it would be hard not to have feelings about the...

9. Spotlight

   Theater spotlight: Dancing at Lughnasa

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: January 13, 2010

   Brian Friel's play about a family of sisters in an Irish village in 1936 is an elegant, beautifully constructed thing, a rumination on the past that touches on both the nature...

10. A-List

    Chuck and Sean's Trivia Three-Year Anniversary

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: January 13, 2010

    It seems bizarre to state that a trivia night has grown exponentially over the past three years, but in the case of Trivia Mafia pub-quiz nights, it's true. When it began in...

11. A-List

    Wednesday Feels Like Tuesday

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: January 13, 2010

    This show actually takes place on a Sunday, but that detail isn't stopping bluegrassical group Orange Mighty Trio and choreographer Maggie Bergeron from musing on minor weekday...

12. A-List

    Art Shanties

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: January 13, 2010

    Once again, the tiny shacks on frozen Medicine Lake will form a small community like no other. Over the following weeks, artists, performers, musicians, scientists, and...

13. A-List

    The Sweetest 16th Ever

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: January 13, 2010

    Okay, so you probably won't be walking out of this party with a new car, a pony, or a diamond-encrusted phone. This is not MTV's My Super Sweet 16. However, a plus is that...

14. A-List

    Caroline Smith (CD-Release)

    By Andrea Swensson

    Published: January 13, 2010

    Caroline Smith's new live album was recorded at the Cedar Cultural Center, so naturally it's a pin-drop quiet and sonically rich recording that plays with a sense of immediacy,...

15. A-List

    Beer Fest

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: January 13, 2010

    The Oktoberfest celebrations have already come and gone, as have the holiday parties. So the next big event that celebrates beer isn't until St. Patrick's Day in March....

16. A-List

    25th Anniversary Open House

    By Katie Christian

    Published: January 13, 2010

    The performing arts center originally called the Ordway Music Theatre celebrates 25 years with an open house that documents its quarter-century of existence. In typical...

17. A-List

    Dale Watson

    By Peter S. Scholtes

    Published: January 13, 2010

    A regular on the Grand Ole Opry and the Austin, Texas, honky-tonk scene, Dale Watson is such a Bakersfield-sound purist that he posed with a gravestone reading "COUNTRY MUSIC...

18. A-List

    Minneapolis Grown-Up Spelling Bee

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: January 13, 2010

    A spelling bee probably doesn't sound like the most fun way to spend a Saturday, but this isn't like the one you bombed in fifth grade when you couldn't spell "onomatopoeia."...

19. A-List

    Stones in His Pockets

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: January 13, 2010

    Marie Jones's Stones in His Pockets is set in contemporary rural Ireland, where a small village is set upon by a Hollywood production in search of "authenticity," oblivious to...

20. A-List

    James Cotton Band

    By Rick Mason

    Published: January 13, 2010

    The Hopkins Center for the Arts launches its new venture as a venue for national artists with a visit from blues harmonica giant James Cotton. A native of Tunica, Mississippi,...