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1. Features

   Skinheads at Forty

   Twenty years after their heyday, the anti-racist Baldies recount the rise and fall of a notorious Twin Cities scene

   By Matt Snyders

   Published: February 20, 2008

   Dusk was descending as a dozen skinheads eyed their counterparts across Lagoon Avenue. The ragtag crew stood their ground, the rubber soles of their Doc Martens defiantly...

2. Theater

   'Fishtank': the Play That Got Away

   Jeune Leune's latest hints at big ideas, but leaves them half-expressed

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: February 20, 2008

   FISHTANK at Theatre de la Jeune Lune through March 22 612.333.6200 If you've ever watched a small rodent in a Habitrail, you've probably experienced one of those moments when...

3. A-List

   Royalty, Etc. 2-Year Anniversary Bash

   By David Hansen

   Published: February 20, 2008

   Ah, the terrible twos—that feral age before our absurd and gleeful impulses get chiseled into our permanent records. Local label Royalty, Etc. may only be turning two,...

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   Miranda Lambert

   By David Hansen

   Published: February 20, 2008

   A finalist on Nashville Star and winner of the Cover Girl Fresh Face of Country Music Award, Miranda Lambert has a résumé that reads like the instructions on a...

5. A-List

   Homegrown's Rock 'n' Roll Funeral

   By Pat O'Brien

   Published: February 20, 2008

   Since October 29, 1996, when Mei Young spun a lone song from a local artist in the radio-nowhere of two o'clock Sunday morning, this city listened as Homegrown blossomed into...

6. A-List

   August Sander: People of the 20th Century

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: February 20, 2008

   Though August Sander's photography runs the gamut from nature to architecture to street performance, he is easily best known for his portraits, including his epic series,...

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   Peace Crimes: The Minnesota Eight vs. the War

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: February 20, 2008

   A few years ago I was interviewing an actor of advanced age (compared to me, at least). When talk turned to the Iraq war, I asked him if things were the same in America during...

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   Jim Wallis

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: February 20, 2008

   In the moral gulf between Democrats and Republicans, Jim Wallis has discovered a political and religious foundation that has attracted millions of followers tired of choosing...

9. A-List

   Le Trio Joubran

   By Rick Mason

   Published: February 20, 2008

   Le Trio Joubran is three Palestinian brothers—Samir, Wissam, Adnan—from the city of Nazareth who are all masters of the oud, the ancient stringed instrument,...

10. A-List

    Connie Evingson

    By Rick Mason

    Published: February 20, 2008

    Following a couple of steamy forays into Django-esque gypsy jazz, local vocal treasure Connie Evingson turns to the smart, sophisticated, witty, and frisky songs of St. Paul...

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    St. Vincent

    By John Henry

    Published: February 20, 2008

    Having previously performed in the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens's touring band, multi-instrumentalist St. Vincent, a.k.a. Annie Clark, grandly stepped into the spotlight...

12. A-List

    Jim Wallis

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: February 20, 2008

    In the moral gulf between Democrats and Republicans, Jim Wallis has discovered a political and religious foundation that has attracted millions of followers tired of choosing...

13. A-List

    Craig Ferguson

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: February 20, 2008

    A lot of people were surprised when the hosting duties of CBS's Late, Late, Show were handed to Craig Ferguson. At the time, he was most widely known as the boss on the Drew...

14. A-List

    Girls Rock Your Boys

    By David Hansen

    Published: February 20, 2008

    We all know the ladies can split skulls every bit as gruesomely as the boys. But even if tonight yields no Saul-en-route-to-Damascus revelations, Stasiu's has more urgent...

15. A-List

    Triple Double

    By Rod Smith

    Published: February 20, 2008

    What softens a recession's bite as effectively as cheap booze? Nothing...except free entertainment. While "Triple Double"—the Triple Rock's freshly reinvented Tuesday...

16. A-List

    Out Rage Us

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: February 20, 2008

    Patrick Scully might be dubbed our veteran provocateur. Since 1986, when the first Patrick's Cabaret opened at St. Stephen's Catholic Church, Scully has been presenting...

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    Joseph A. Amato

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: February 20, 2008

    It would be fair to say that historian Joseph Amato agrees that all history starts on a personal level. And while you certainly don't need to convince history and genealogy...

18. A-List

    Fireside Literary Series: Sun Yung Shin

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: February 20, 2008

    Do not let the thicket of the first few poems in Sun Yung Shin's collection Skirt Full of Black turn you off from venturing further into the book. While the early ones are at...

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    Karolina Karlic

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: February 20, 2008

    The beauty of Karolina Karlic's work is that you might have a little trouble differentiating photos of a dirty child in Detroit from a dirty child in Ukraine. Her nationally...

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    American Democracy in Dissent

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: February 20, 2008

    Daniel Ellsberg gave the White House and the world quite a shock in 1971 when he leaked 7,000 classified pages of a Defense Department report outlining the full extent of the...