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21. A-List

    The Stones

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Stefo Nantsou and Tom Lycos have been performing their two-man show for more than 10 years, from their native Australia to points around the globe, and the reason for its...

22. A-List

    Priscilla Briggs: Global Market

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Priscilla Briggs apparently doesn't think too highly of the Mall of America. She calls it "that monolithic shrine of consumption." But, like it or not, the mall has certainly...

23. A-List

    The Hives

    By Jonathan Garrett

    Published: February 27, 2008

    There was a time not too long ago when Howlin' Pelle's absurd boasts and puffery might have been mistaken for fact. In 2001, following the success of singles "Main Offender"...

24. A-List

    Charles Baxter

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Charles Baxter's latest novel, The Soul Thief, is a winding tale of ambiguous narratives and character identity. It opens as Nathaniel Mason, a graduate student living in...

25. A-List

    Umphrey's McGee

    By Rick Mason

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Chicago-based jam heroes Umphrey's McGee, in town for a three-night residency at First Avenue, revel in playing the kind of sprawling, improv-rich spatial odysseys that leave...

26. A-List

    Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars

    By Rick Mason

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Although the musicians of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars endured a hell unimaginable to most of us, they now create heavenly music whose fundamental message is the unbeatable...

27. A-List

    Black Lips

    By Pat O'Brien

    Published: February 27, 2008

    The Black Lips have a way of catching you off guard, even though you've seen and heard most of it before. They look like run-of-the-mill hipsters with the skinny jeans, unkempt...

28. A-List

    Altas Sound

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Experiencing Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, the debut CD from Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox's Atlas Sound project, is a lot like wandering into a...

29. A-List

    The Prints of Sean Scully

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Somehow, Irish-born painter and printmaker Sean Scully makes alternating shades of black interesting. Somehow, he makes 12-foot-wide prints feel intimate and cozy. And somehow,...

30. A-List

    Jon Ferguson: You're My Favorite Kind of Pretty

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Director and performer Jon Ferguson is among Minnesota's most versatile directors, an artist who freely injects a keen sense of text flow and physical movement into his...

31. Spotlight

    Theater Spotlight: Third

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: February 27, 2008

    THIRD at Guthrie Theater McGuire Proscenium Stage through March 30 612.377.2224 Wendy Wasserstein's final play takes place at an unnamed elite liberal arts college in New...

32. Blotter

    Freak show banned from AIDS benefit

    Lobster Girl and the Human Tripod aren't Minnesota Nice enough

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Danny the Half-boy, Little Miss Firefly, Jackie the Human Tripod, and Flipperboy are pissed off. Their performing troupe, 999 EYES Carnival of the Damned—an Austin,...

33. Letters to the Editor

    Bait and switch

    Readers respond to "Nothin' but Trouble"

    Published: February 27, 2008

    I had to laugh at your cover art after reading the article on mortgage fraud ("Nothin' but Trouble," 2/13/08). The piece itself was an interesting look into how apparently...

34. Music

    It's a Knife Knife Knife Knife World

    While you're sleeping, they're freaking

    By David Hansen

    Published: February 27, 2008

    KNIFE WORLD Knife World Roaratorio Within a damp, unwinterized Minneapolis basement, Jon Nielsen, Knife World's guitarist and occasional vocalist, sounds his first chord, an...

35. 5ingles

    5ingles

    The Songs We Can't Escape

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: February 27, 2008

    THE BOREDOMS "LIVWE!!" Japanese out/kraut/noise/etc. tribalists enlist heavenly choir, bust through space-time continuum into new dimensions of rapturous transcendental...

36. Critics' Picks

    Critics' Picks: Foo Fighters and more

    Published: February 27, 2008

    WEDNESDAY 2.27 Foo Fighters Target Center Despite missing out on the prime prizes, the Foos were in great form at the Grammys, picking up awards for best rock album and hard...

37. Dish

    Meritage: superb brasserie dining

    The downtown St. Paul establishment has that touch of class

    By Rachel Hutton

    Published: February 27, 2008

    MERITAGE 410 Saint Peter St., St. Paul 651.222.5670 • www.meritage-stpaul.comentrees $18-$32; appetizers $3-$16 For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what that noise...

38. À la carte

    Marla's: a ray of Caribbean sunshine

    The spicy fare takes the edge off a Minnesota winter

    By James Norton

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Few things take the edge off of a Minnesota February like home cooking from a warm part of the world. Trinidad, with an average temperature range of 73 to 87 degrees,...

39. Culture Jamming

    Unlucky Break

    Marvin Gaye's divorce album tops this week's pop culture picks

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: February 27, 2008

    TOP PICK – Marvin Gaye: Here, My Dear – Expanded Edition (Hip-O Select)Back in 1978, Marvin Gaye was going through a brutal divorce. His soon-to-be-ex-wife demanded...

40. DVDish

    Move Along, Kids

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Justice League: The New Frontier (Warner Bros.)Based on Darwyn Cooke's comic-book miniseries—a masterpiece starring all of DC Comics' major-leaguers at the dawn of...