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Sham-Rock Out: Mill City Irish Fest
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: March 5, 2008
It's not quite St. Patrick's Day, but according to the Mill City's website, this festival is scheduled early to "kick off the St. Patrick's Day season." And why not? Christmas...
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The Brave New Workshop at 50: Old Enough to Know Better
By Ben Palosaari
Published: March 5, 2008
The Brave New Workshop first opened its doors as Instant Theatre in 1958. That was the same year that Soviet satellite Sputnik fell back to earth, President Eisenhower signed...
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Peter May
By Ben Palosaari
Published: March 5, 2008
Scottish writer Peter May's thrillers are not well suited for readers with touchy stomachs. In his new novel, The Killing Room, from his Margaret Campbell thriller series set...
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The Face of Poetry
By Ben Palosaari
Published: March 5, 2008
Author photos, the kind you find on book jackets, aren't merely photos of the author. They must capture the feel of the book and the writer. Often they are lightened or...
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A-List
Big Head Todd & the Monsters
By David Hansen
Published: March 5, 2008
Big Head Todd & the Monsters keep company with Crash Test Dummies and Blind Melon as the deposed monarchs of the non-confrontational, melodic pop that kept the mid-'90s in a...
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A-List
Steve Earle
By Rick Mason
Published: March 5, 2008
Steve Earle's epic journey has been anything but easy or predictable; quests for unsettling truths rarely are. Whether taking on venal politicians, crass exploitation of...
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A-List
Ravi Coltrane Quartet/ Roy Haynes Quartet
By Rick Mason
Published: March 5, 2008
Drummer Roy Haynes arrived on the jazz scene just as the swing era was giving way to the bebop revolution. Some 60 years later, his lean, nuanced, crackling-yet-elastic style...
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Spotlight
Theater Spotlight: You're My Favorite Kind of Pretty
By Quinton Skinner
Published: March 5, 2008
YOU'RE MY FAVORITE KIND OF PRETTY at the Southern Theater through March 9 612.340.1725 Jon Ferguson directs this collaborative show about young romantic love, and it tackles...
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Features
Jesus Weekend
When teens encounter Christ, all hell breaks loose
By Matt Snyders
Published: March 5, 2008
When my mother, a public high school teacher in rural Iowa, entered her classroom to find the occasional Bible verse or Jesus-themed riddle scrawled on the whiteboard, she...
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Blotter
Singing a New Tune
Does Minnesota need a new state song?
Published: March 5, 2008
Forget our crumbling roads, overburdened courts, and hemorrhaging public schools. You know what this state really needs? A catchier jingle. The push for a new state song comes...
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Letters to the Editor
Bald is beautiful
Readers respond to "Skinheads at Forty"
Published: March 5, 2008
I read Matt Snyders's piece "Skinheads at Forty" (2/20/08), and I could do little more than shake my head and smile. That was us. We knew we were unlike anything before or...
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Music
Bob Mould finds happiness
The music legend moves past gloomy anthems
By Ben Westhoff
Published: March 5, 2008
BOB MOULD District Line Anti- "It's pretty easy, actually, it just took a while to figure out," Bob Mould says, explaining how, after years of personal discontent, he finally...
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5ingles
5ingles
The Songs We Can't Escape
By Ray Cummings
Published: March 5, 2008
PAULA ABDUL "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow" It's upbeat, it's frivolous, it's Sugar-Free Diet Pepsi dance-pop at best. This faded diva's apparent resurgence aside—and...
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Critics' Picks
Critics' Picks: Big Trouble and more
Published: March 5, 2008
THURSDAY 3.06Big TroubleBryant-Lake Bowl TheaterTo celebrate the release of their cleverly titled EP, Crescent Moon Is in Big Trouble, the local all-star group of Twin Cities...
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Dish
Strip Club serves up meaty hedonism
Enjoy the pleasures of the flesh in St. Paul
By Rachel Hutton
Published: March 5, 2008
THE STRIP CLUB 378 Maria Avenue, St. Paul 651.793.6247, www.domeats.comentrees $14-$28; appetizers $4-$15 Phoebe wasn't the kind of girl to go to a strip club. But there she...
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À la carte
Barbette's executive chef speaks
An interview with the Uptown favorite's head foodie
By James Norton
Published: March 5, 2008
If you're hungry and in Uptown, Barbette has you covered, no matter what time it is: breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner. Inspired by chic-yet-casual French bistros and powered...
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Savage Love
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
Published: March 5, 2008
Open marriages—do they ever work? After 16 years and one kid, my husband and I are considering an open marriage. Over a year ago, I met another man who I was attracted...
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Free Will Astrology
Free Will Astrology
By Rob Brezsny
Published: March 5, 2008
ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is Celebrate Your Broken Heart Week, Aries. Even if your heart's not exactly shattered at the moment, it has no doubt been so at sometime in the...
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Culture Jamming
Culture Jamming
A bounty of Bootsy tops this week's pop culture picks
By Michael Gallucci
Published: March 5, 2008
TOP PICK – Bootsy Collins CD reissues (Collectors' Choice)Bootsy was P-Funk's bass-playing nucleus during their greatest period. As a solo artist recording under the...
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DVDish
Oscar-Starved
By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper
Published: March 5, 2008
Into the Wild (Paramount)Sean Penn waited a good decade before adapting Jon Krakauer's book about Chris McCandless, who graduated college in 1990, then disappeared into...
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