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1. News

   "Vampire King" Jonathon Sharkey running for Minnesota governor

   Would the alleged blood drinker truly suck for Minnesota?

   By Hart Van Denburg

   Published: January 20, 2010

   Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey has big ambitions. The self-described king of the vampyres just got out of an Indiana jail cell after cooling his heels on a conviction for...

2. Feature

   The 10 most influential lobbyists in Minnesota

   Meet the invisible hands behind some of the state's biggest bills

   By Matt Snyders

   Published: January 20, 2010

   THERE ARE FEW THINGS LAWMAKERS like talking about less than the lobbyists they work with on a daily basis. This hesitancy underscores legislators' politically inconvenient but...

3. Blotter

   Tim Pawlenty joins Glenn Beck

   Governor shakes hands with crazy

   By Hart Van Denburg

   Published: January 20, 2010

   Look where Tim Pawlenty wants to go in his search for support from the Republican Party base: a conference whose keynote speaker believes that Barack Obama is a racist and that...

4. Mischke

   For Whom the Bell Tolls

   Marking time amidst the madness

   By TD Mischke

   Published: January 20, 2010

   For avid followers of the entertaining timepiece known as the world's Doomsday Clock, this past week's movement of its big hand from five minutes before midnight to six minutes...

5. Gimme Noise

   Dessa ventures toward experimental pop with A Badly Broken Code

   Doomtree's songbird taking welcome new risks as a solo artist

   By Andrea Swensson

   Published: January 20, 2010

   For many in the local scene, the mention of Dessa's name conjures up a few well-tread facts: She's a literary agent, commended in the same breath for her talents in writing and...

6. Dish

   Crave, Cooper, and Icon bring convenience to St. Louis Park

   Taste is often lost in the strip-mall dining experience

   By Rachel Hutton

   Published: January 20, 2010

   Back in the day—before Twitter, before 30 Rock, before voice mail—the only sustenance found within a shopping mall's walls was the occasional baggie of Cheerios...

7. Movies

   Harrison Ford talks about Extraordinary Measures, Star Wars, and aging

   Ford: "I'm clearly not 35 anymore"

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: January 20, 2010

   Extraordinary Measures is a race-against-time thriller in which a desperate dad (Brendan Fraser) sacrifices everything to cure a rare disease that's seconds away from killing...

8. Theater

   Stones in His Pockets allows actors room to play

   Steven Epp and Jim Lichtscheidl harness a precious alchemy

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: January 20, 2010

   There's no profit in trying to reckon whether life imitates art or vice versa: Each is as real as the other, each the equivalent of rubbing a smudged windowpane with your...

9. A-List

   Freedy Johnston

   By Peter S. Scholtes

   Published: January 20, 2010

   Come for the voice, stay for the lyrics. Freedy Johnston's luminescent Kansas-Hoboken plainness would suit either the country or R&B he skirts, if not the bossa nova he adores,...

10. A-List

    A Perfect World

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: January 20, 2010

    Is a perfect world a more technologically advanced world? Why do we often associate technology with the future and with utopia? Though these questions are prompted in "A...

11. A-List

    Rock the Cradle

    By Mackenzie Lobby

    Published: January 20, 2010

    Minnesota's popular music station 89.3 the Current will cater to a younger listener at its annual family-friendly event. In existence since the station's inception in the...

12. A-List

    D.L. Hughley

    By Bryan Miller

    Published: January 20, 2010

    D.L. Hughley is no doubt a familiar face. He created and starred in the sitcom The Hugleys, which ran for four seasons on ABC; co-starred in the intriguing but short-lived NBC...

13. A-List

    Rob Delaney

    By Bryan Miller

    Published: January 20, 2010

    You might have seen comedian Rob Delaney on the SyFy comedy series Astronauts in Outer Space, doing improv with friends from Upright Citizens Brigade, or telling jokes with...

14. A-List

    Get Lucky

    By Jeff Gage

    Published: January 20, 2010

    For the eighth installment of the annual Get Lucky Fundraiser, SooVac is letting the art do the talking. In past years the event has featured different gambling-related themes,...

15. A-List

    No Bird Sing

    By Jeff Gage

    Published: January 20, 2010

    For listeners taking in the menacing groove and Eric Blair's liquid flow, it's easy to overlook an important component of No Bird Sing's music: They play hip hop without a...

16. A-List

    Saint Paul Winter Carnival

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: January 20, 2010

    While many people across the country hold up their fists in anger against the winter months, Minnesotans enthusiastically come together to celebrate them at the Saint Paul...

17. A-List

    Murzik

    By Nate Patrin

    Published: January 20, 2010

    The genre name that seems to come up most frequently where Murzik are concerned is "dark folk", a phrase halfway between evocative and generic. You can sort of picture a band...

18. A-List

    Modern Radio 10 Year Anniversary Show

    By David Hansen

    Published: January 20, 2010

    Stay married for a decade and watch how much goes unnoticed. She can gain 10 pounds in a month. Get a perm. Buy a new gown. Wear new perfume. After all those years, the pileup...

19. A-List

    Tea Leaf Green

    By Jeff Gage

    Published: January 20, 2010

    Putting a modern gloss on the work of such legendary acts as the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band with their funky, psychedelic sound and dedication to their...

20. A-List

    Roy Hargrove Quintet

    By Rick Mason

    Published: January 20, 2010

    Since his initial emergence in the late '80s, Roy Hargrove has not only established himself as an inspired player (on both trumpet and flugelhorn), but also as a particularly...