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1. Features

   Nothin' But Trouble

   Yachts, Cadillacs, even a party bus...real estate was a great racket—until the lawsuits started piling up

   By Jeff Severns Guntzel

   Published: February 13, 2008

   On a weekday in the spring of 2006, Linda Clewette, a 57-year-old transcriptionist and self-employed candy machine vendor, slid into a booth at the Baker's Square in Maple...

2. Dish

   Jay's Place

   This cozy cafe may be easy to overlook, but its simple and stylish food is worth seeking out

   By Bridgette Reinsmoen

   Published: February 13, 2008

   JAY'S CAFÉ791 Raymond Ave., St. Paul651.641.1446 • www.jays-cafe.comThe restaurant business is a tenuous one. Many new ventures don't last a year, and even...

3. Savage Love

   Savage Love

   By Dan Savage

   Published: February 13, 2008

   My boyfriend and I have been dating for four months and we're crazy about each other. He's been slowly introducing me to butt play. Last night, we were verbally playing out an...

4. Free Will Astrology

   Free Will Astrology

   By Rob Brezsny

   Published: February 13, 2008

   ARIES (March 21-April 19): Happy Valentine Daze, Aries! After meditating about what advice would be most useful for your love life during the rest of 2008, I decided on this...

5. Theater

   Eleanor's Cabinet celebrates art, memory and silliness

   The poignant Open Eye performance examines how childhood shapes ourperceptions

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: February 13, 2008

   ELEANOR'S CABINET at Open Eye Figure Theatre through March 9 612.874.6338 Memory can be the most unreliable of narrators, what with our need to connect the events of our lives...

6. A-List

   Linkin Park

   By Ray Cummings

   Published: February 13, 2008

   In the '90s, disaffected youth could turn to Nine Inch Nails for comfort, pasting their anxious, angry scowls into Trent Reznor's pop-industrial f-you hymns. Linkin Park are...

7. A-List

   Allen Toussaint

   By Rick Mason

   Published: February 13, 2008

   By virtually any measure, Allen Toussaint is a giant of American music and has been among a key handful of indispensable forces on the tumultuous New Orleans music scene over...

8. A-List

   La Belle Epoque Valentine's Eve Fetish Bash

   By David Hansen

   Published: February 13, 2008

   There's simply no sense in acting as though you didn't find Pinhead's entreaty to sample the pleasures of hell more than a little enticing. If you've simply been waiting for a...

9. A-List

   Ted Van Dyk

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: February 13, 2008

   Former democratic political advisor Ted Van Dyk must feel like he's living in a time warp. The political climate is, after all, rather similar to that of the 1960s, when he...

10. A-List

    Art Sled Rally

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: February 13, 2008

    When I was a kid, my youth group decided to take us kids sledding, telling us that they would provide the sleds. We were a little dismayed to find that the sleds they had...

11. A-List

    How F@#&ing Romantic: Nine bands perform Magnetic Fields's 69LoveSongs

    By David Hansen

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Valentine's Day, the fatted calf of the confectioner, remains a bittersweet day for even the most cerebral primates among us. Stephen Merritt, the particularly evolved brain...

12. A-List

    Cold Blooded, Warm Hearted

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Can cynics be passionate about things outside of snark? Judging from the new group show, "Cold Blooded, Warm Hearted," the answer is a loud and emphatic yes. Images in works by...

13. A-List

    Randy Weston

    By Rick Mason

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Long before there was a commercial concept of "world music," Randy Weston sallied forth from his Brooklyn origins and immersed himself in the vast panoply of African cultures,...

14. A-List

    Seventh Annual Political Theatre Festival

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: February 13, 2008

    You can crack open a bottle of wine and dispute all night whether all art is political (really, go ahead. I won't stop you), but the argument is well and fully settled in the...

15. A-List

    Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: February 13, 2008

    It's hard to explain the suburbs to someone who has never lived in one. Like an exclusive fraternity, the 'burbs are full of cultural tics that influence our culture, political...

16. A-List

    Romeo Castellucci and Societas Raffaello Sanzio: Hey Girl

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: February 13, 2008

    This is a rare opportunity to see Italian director Romeo Castellucci and Socîetas Raffaello Sanzio perform stateside. The Italian visual theater star has challenged...

17. A-List

    The Underpants

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Workhouse Theatre continues its mission of bringing solid theater to north Minneapolis with Steve Martin's comic take on Carl Sternheim's 1910 farce (I prefer the Steve Martin...

18. A-List

    Hip Hop for the Homeless Benefit

    By David Hansen

    Published: February 13, 2008

    After 30 years of paying lip service to the virtues of keeping it street, hip hop and some of its most selfless practitioners are posed and ready to put your money where their...

19. A-List

    Redwalls

    By Rick Mason

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Since emerging from the Chicago suburbs with a serious addiction to Brit pop, the Redwalls have had a particularly rocky voyage on the seas of rock 'n' roll fortune. After an...

20. A-List

    Babyface

    By Jordan Selbo

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Kicking off his 13-city tour behind his ninth solo LP in Minneapolis, the curiously but aptly named (for a nearly 50-year-old elder statesman of R&B who remains ageless)...