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1. News

   A Soldier in Winter

   A 24-year-old veteran seeks redemption for atrocities committed during the Iraq war

   By Beth Walton

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Sipping on a longneck Miller Genuine Draft, Jen's brown eyes glaze over as she stares out the window of an Uptown bar, blocks away from the Veterans for Peace Building where...

2. Theater

   'Parade' muses on 1913 killing

   The odd subject makes for a bleak but compelling musical

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: March 5, 2008

   PARADE Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company & Theater Latté Da at History Theatre through March 16 651.292.4323 It's 1913 in Atlanta, and Jewish Brooklyn transplant Leo...

3. A-List

   Murzik CD-Release Show

   By Pat O'Brien

   Published: March 5, 2008

   After all of the initial "Oh, these guys sound like—" comparisons end and it's conceded that Murzik don't really sound that much like anything else out there right now,...

4. A-List

   Big Trouble

   By Jordan Selbo

   Published: March 5, 2008

   To celebrate the release of their cleverly titled EP, Crescent Moon Is in Big Trouble, the local all-star group of Twin Cities musical staples Big Trouble bowls through...

5. A-List

   Fidgety Fairy Tales: The Mental Health Musical

   By Linda Shapiro

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Sleeping Handsome tries to escape the pain of his dad's death by pricking his finger on a spindle, while the Phobia Triplets channel Rapunzel's fears of staircases, open...

6. A-List

   Fidgety Fairy Tales: The Mental Health Musical

   By Linda Shapiro

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Sleeping Handsome tries to escape the pain of his dad's death by pricking his finger on a spindle, while the Phobia Triplets channel Rapunzel's fears of staircases, open...

7. A-List

   Fidgety Fairy Tales: The Mental Health Musical

   By Linda Shapiro

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Sleeping Handsome tries to escape the pain of his dad's death by pricking his finger on a spindle, while the Phobia Triplets channel Rapunzel's fears of staircases, open...

8. A-List

   Consolation Champ

   By David Hansen

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Modesty has always been a cornerstone of acoustic folk music, but these local folkies definitely undersell themselves in their band name. Far from musical also-rans,...

9. A-List

   Holmes Brothers

   By Rick Mason

   Published: March 5, 2008

   The rough-and-tumble shouts of Wendell Holmes, soaring falsetto of Popsy Dixon, and rich baritone of Sherman Holmes mashed and intertwined into spine-tingling harmonies, are a...

10. A-List

    Hauser Dance Spring Concert

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Hauser Dance, currently directed by Heidi Jasmin, is a repository of Minneapolis dance history and tradition. The Nancy Hauser Dance Company was a vibrant organization housed...

11. A-List

    Criminales di Cromatico

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Criminals in multicolor, indeed. Though both Shawn McNulty and Michael Sweere have had numerous shows at the Rosalux Gallery, this will be their first together, and it does...

12. A-List

    David and Nic Sheff

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: March 5, 2008

    According to David Sheff's memoir, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, his son Nic was always on "the cutting edge of popular trends." Unfortunately,...

13. A-List

    Greg Giraldo

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: March 5, 2008

    As the former host of Comedy Central's Stand Up Nation, Greg Giraldo would seem to be well qualified to judge the state of comedy in America. "I dunno," he chuckles. "I don't...

14. A-List

    Taste of Chocolate

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The seeds of the tropical cacao tree have been consumed by humans for around three millennia. Like coffee, these beans were originally roasted, ground, and heated up in water...

15. A-List

    A Fine Frenzy

    By Pat O'Brien

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Alison Sudol, more commonly known as A Fine Frenzy, has a knack for writing the kind of sweeping, piano-driven pop epics that would fit so well playing over the climax scene of...

16. A-List

    Alison Bechdel

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: March 5, 2008

    For 25 years now, Alison Bechdel has been cranking out her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. In that time she's earned numerous Lambda Awards for comedy and her strip has...

17. A-List

    Ying Yang Twins

    By Jordan Selbo

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Don't front—if you really went to a rap show to hear intricate lyrics full of subtle metaphor and internal rhyme structures, you'd bring your headphones and crash in the...

18. A-List

    Yellowcard

    By David Hansen

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Yellowcard, a Florida power-punk quintet aptly named after minor soccer offenses, are the biggest thing to happen to the violin since Henny Youngman, and from the sound of...

19. A-List

    Gutter Twins

    By Jonathan Garrett

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Greg Dulli, of Afghan Whigs fame, seems to be in a nostalgic mood lately. Last year, his old band was the subject of a retrospective, and to mark the occasion, the Whigs...

20. A-List

    Beneath the Surface

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: March 5, 2008

    For all our dreams of import, our grand loves, and our gnawing frustrations, there's no getting around the fact that we are also, to quote a Star Trek: The Next Generation...