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1. Features

   St. Paul's High Bridge: Suicide Hot Spot

   Ever since the original High Bridge was built in 1889, it's been a magnet for people seeking to end their lives

   By Paul Demko

   Published: February 6, 2008

   Sylvia Johnson couldn't sleep. It was just after Labor Day weekend in 2005, and she'd been plagued by insomnia throughout the summer. The 32-year-old Inver Grove Heights...

2. News

   Kinky Sex Makes College Go 'Round

   U of M sex club students defend themselves from conservative scorn

   By Beth Walton

   Published: February 6, 2008

   Mike Lent hugs everyone who walks though the door of the Queer Student Cultural Center, a grape-and-lime painted office tucked away on the second floor of the University of...

3. Movies

   There is no gold at the end of Fool's Gold

   Pity the Fools of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mash-up

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: February 6, 2008

   FOOL'S GOLD directed by Andy Tennant area theaters, starts Friday When a friend recently told me that she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson...

4. Theater

   Drama in Black and White

   In her bravura one-woman show, Sarah Agnew brings to life two families in apartheid-era South Africa

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: February 6, 2008

   THE SYRINGA TREE at the Jungle Theater through March 9 612.822.7063 No matter the particular circumstances, there are always times in life when the question is whether to stay...

5. A-List

   Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker: Fase

   By Caroline Palmer

   Published: February 6, 2008

   Steve Reich's musical compositions are deceptively simple in their repetition, but spend a while with them and you soon discover a structure that offers infinite possibility....

6. A-List

   Dave Attell

   By Cecile Cloutier

   Published: February 6, 2008

   Dave Attell's comedy is rooted in those dodgy, post-midnight decisions Mom warned you about; his jokes stagger through bad sex and worse hangovers like a drunk on rollerblades....

7. A-List

   Valerie Plame

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: February 6, 2008

   It was almost five years ago when the name Valerie Plame Wilson became public knowledge. That was when legendary journalist Robert Novak set off a political firestorm with a...

8. A-List

   James Orbinski

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: February 6, 2008

   In the midst of a natural disaster, a major virus outbreak, or armed conflict, medical care and finances for such services aren't always readily available. Fortunately, Doctors...

9. A-List

   Sample Night Live

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: February 6, 2008

   This once-a-month mishmash sneaks a peek at the kaleidoscope of the Twin Cities performance scene; the first act is rated G, while the second ventures into more adult-oriented...

10. A-List

    Fireside Literary Series: Lise Erdrich

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: February 6, 2008

    While the debate continues on whether there are four, seven, eight, or thirty-six basic story plots in the world, Lise Erdrich has narrowed it down to one. She tells a tale in...

11. A-List

    Lise Erdrich

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: February 6, 2008

    While the debate continues on whether there are four, seven, eight, or thirty-six basic story plots in the world, Lise Erdrich has narrowed it down to one. She tells a tale in...

12. A-List

    Mika

    By Sarah Askari

    Published: February 6, 2008

    If you took a hot air balloon and covered it in spun sugar and candy sprinkles, would it still be able to carry you and your favorite stuffed animal to Oz? Or would it instead...

13. A-List

    Sweeney Todd

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: February 6, 2008

    I was tempted to write something about the peculiarity of British culture, what with its kicking up both Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper into the realms of the literal and the...

14. A-List

    Zhauna Franks's Dream Channel

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Choreographer Zhauna Franks has come up with a way for us to dream with our eyes open, a treat for all who are growing weary of the long winter nights. Her second full-evening...

15. A-List

    Will Hoge & Jason Isbell

    By Rick Mason

    Published: February 6, 2008

    This pair of superlative Southern singer-songwriters revel in whiskey-soaked Americana angst, their music laced with stray elements of Southern rock, country, and the classic...

16. A-List

    Baby Dee

    By David Hansen

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Ah, the church organ. What sinister power drives its practitioners to such arcane, Byzantine lives? If you were to make case studies of Anton LaVey and Baby Dee, you would find...

17. A-List

    Louis CK

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Louis CK became a comic when he realized he couldn't do anything else. "I had things I wanted to do," he says. "I wanted to be a lawyer for the ACLU. I had dreams of things,...

18. A-List

    Luke's Angels CD-Release Show

    By David Hanson

    Published: February 6, 2008

    In an age where two-pieces strive to sound like three, this Minneapolis trio brings the lush luster of a quintet with the greatest of ease. Is that upping the ante, or just...

19. A-List

    Mark Olson

    By David Hansen

    Published: February 6, 2008

    When I grow up, I want a divorce as fortuitous as the one currently being enjoyed by Mark Olson and the Jayhawks, the alt-country superpower he helped found. Yielding more...

20. A-List

    The 26th Annual Battle of the Jug Bands

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Battle of the Jug Bands Cabooze We all know that guitars can battle it out. So can MCs, and anyone who's seen a teen rom-com from the '90s knows you can always determine...