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21. A-List

    Krista Tippett

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Some reporters seem to be gluttons for covering tinderbox topics. Krista Tippett is one of those reporters. She was a foreign correspondent for years, covering both East and...

22. A-List

    Listening for Frogs in Guyana

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Picture a night out at the bar after a heavy rain. Having just been out for a meal, the available males are well sated. They peer over the second-story railing at the females...

23. A-List

    Café Scientifique: Evolution, Cuisine, and Romance

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: February 13, 2008

    When imagining catalysts to evolution, or things that enabled great strides for our ancestors, fire or the invention of the wheel may spring to mind. But what about cooking?...

24. A-List

    Giovanna Dell'Orto

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: February 13, 2008

    After September 11, 2001, headlines around the world read: "We are all Americans." As Giovanna Dell'Orto describes in her new book, The Hidden Power of the American Dream, in...

25. A-List

    Lynn Cox

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: February 13, 2008

    At age 17, open-water swimmer Lynne Cox found herself being followed by a baby gray whale while training for an upcoming channel crossing. Unable to find its mother, the baby...

26. A-List

    Russel Wright: Living with Good Design

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Russel Wright was the hip product designer before that cliché was even created. He makes Michael Graves's products for Target and Ikea's simple designs look like...

27. A-List

    Michael Oren

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: February 13, 2008

    We all know that politics in the Middle East will be a contentious topic in our coming presidential election. But the complex issues involved are hardly new. In Power, Faith,...

28. A-List

    Chamber Ballet of St. Paul

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Ballet is really, really hard to do. You have to have the right stuff: line, turnout, high extensions, high pain threshold, and soaring leaps that achieve exactly the right...

29. A-List

    Bedouin Soundclash

    By Pat O'Brien

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Though time and again they are labeled "reggae" (a label less desirable than "puppy kicker" to many), Toronto natives Bedouin Soundclash actually draw from the genre in...

30. A-List

    A Place to Bury Strangers

    By Jonathan Garrett

    Published: February 13, 2008

    On their self-titled debut, A Place to Bury Strangers offer an especially unruly take on the proto-shoegaze of the Jesus and Mary Chain. Place doesn't stray far from the...

31. A-List

    Victorian Poetry Slam

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Forget boxes of chocolates and heart-shaped Hallmark cards. This Valentine's Day, nothing says I love you like the macabre poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, or the musings of poetic...

32. A-List

    Super Furry Animals

    By Jonathan Garrett

    Published: February 13, 2008

    In retrospect, 2000 turned out to be a pivotal year for the Super Furry Animals. First, the band put out Mwng, a collection of songs recorded entirely in their native Welsh....

33. A-List

    Carrie Newcomer

    By Rick Mason

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Fervid spirituality haunts the songs of Carrie Newcomer; not the rigid doctrinaire lunacy of the rabid religious right, but a gentler rationalism that finds strength in...

34. A-List

    Frank Caliendo

    By Phil Bolsta

    Published: February 13, 2008

    "It's always been a dream of mine to be on the Late Show with Letterman," says Frank Caliendo, whose TBS sketch show, FrankTV, premiered to 2.9 million viewers in November....

35. A-List

    Rotting Christ

    By Rod Smith

    Published: February 13, 2008

    You want testimonials? While campaigning for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, Project for the New American Century contributor and pro-family careerist Gary Bauer...

36. Spotlight

    Theater Spotlight: After Ashley

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: February 13, 2008

    AFTER ASHLEY 20% Theatre Company, Twin Cities; at Bedlam Theatre through February 23 612.338.9817 Spoiler alert: It's impossible to talk about this play without revealing a...

37. News

    Professor recalls "nightmare" corruption in Iraq

    St. Cloud State teacher Abbas Mehdi saw realities of the occupation as a member of Iraq's government

    By Jeff Severns Guntzel

    Published: February 13, 2008

    In Baghdad, four square miles called the "Green Zone" have been carved out and fortified with a winding concrete blast wall that protects the politicians, diplomats,...

38. Blotter

    Condom Nation

    Parents, get ready to welcome new grandchildren home for spring break

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Civilization's first line of defense against a baby boom of college spawn is cheap contraceptives. It used to be that a sex-addled liberal arts student at the University of...

39. Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the Editor

    Readers respond to "The Slumlord of South Minneapolis"

    Published: February 13, 2008

    The slumlord must go!The article on Spiros Zorbalas was not only informative but eye-opening ("The Slumlord of South Minneapolis," 1/30/08). How can this lowlife continue to...

40. Music

    Minnesota's Own Sonny and Cher

    Pop is a yodeler, Mom was a stomper, and their garage is a Golden Valley Love Shack

    By Michael L. Walsh

    Published: February 13, 2008

    THE LOVERS SHOW The Lovers Show Yodel Boy Productions You totally want to be Jared and Noni Mason. They are one of those rare couples who have somehow defied the descent into...