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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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."...
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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...
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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,...
