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1. Features

   Sex, Drugs, & Awesome Hair

   The glamtacular history of 1980s heavy metal in the Twin Cities

   By Jeff Severns Guntzel

   Published: March 19, 2008

   ON MAINSTREET in Hopkins, a bar called Decoy's shares the street with an antiques mall and a bead store. On a subzero night in March, a middle-aged woman with bleached blond...

2. News

   Will Minneapolis pioneer instant runoff voting?

   It's no sure bet, and a legal fight looms

   By Jonathan Kaminsky

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Last week, Minneapolis election department head Cynthia Reichert gave a lengthy PowerPoint presentation to the City Council on the hurdles facing her department as it prepares...

3. Music Notes

   The Sunshine Solution

   At SXSW, fresh air and stale beer come to an industry's rescue

   By Sarah Askari

   Published: March 19, 2008

   What is the taste of an industry in crisis? Bubblegum-pink mojitos are easing their way down my gullet after a succulent helping of pork in some sort of orange goo, and I can...

4. Dish

   Hunting for Easter candy

   Think outside the basket this year

   By Rachel Hutton

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Like skydiving and politics, Easter candy is one of those things that people don't tend to feel wishy-washy about. There are those with rabid, hit-the-clearance-racks...

5. Savage Love

   Savage Love

   By Dan Savage

   Published: March 19, 2008

   My wife beat breast cancer five years ago. Went through chemo and radiation and ultimately radical surgery. Brave, lovely, and lucky woman she is. But after the procedures, she...

6. Free Will Astrology

   Free Will Astrology

   By Rob Brezsny

   Published: March 19, 2008

   ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Bible says you should kill adulterers, homosexuals, and brides who aren't virgins (Leviticus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 22:21). But I beg you not to...

7. Movies

   Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth with Paranoid Park

   A masterful work on a shoestring budget

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: March 19, 2008

   The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few...

8. Theater

   'Frozen' peers inside a serial killer's brain

   Park Square's production examines what makes a monster

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: March 19, 2008

   In a recent essay in the Village Voice, scorched-earth dramatist David Mamet noted that he had long held the unexamined belief that people were basically good at heart; on...

9. A-List

   Avril Lavigne

   By Geoff Cannon

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Canadian Business magazine's seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood brings the teenage rampage back to Minnesota in support of her third album, The Best Damn Thing....

10. A-List

    Retribution Gospel Choir

    By Carl Swanson

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Low's Alan Sparhawk brings a lot of dark magic to Retribution Gospel Choir's full-length debut. In reworking "Breaker," Low's single from the 2007 hit Drums and Guns, Sparhawk...

11. A-List

    Sightings

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Your average rock outfit peppers its catchy rapture with gnarly rupture. The grisly no-wave of NYC trio Sightings, on the other hand, is almost all disorienting, volcanic...

12. A-List

    Eddie 'The Chief' Clearwater

    By Rick Mason

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Chicago's Eddy Clearwater is a southpaw guitar inferno whose Windy City blues are laced with vintage rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, country, and gospel. He even recorded his last...

13. A-List

    Pamela

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Dancers Emily Johnson, Jessica Cressey, and Hannah Kramer are fascinating to watch, no matter what they're doing. A press release for "Pamela," a choreographic collaboration...

14. A-List

    WCHA Final Five

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: March 19, 2008

    The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is one of the most elite college hockey conferences in the nation. Seven of the 10 men's WCHA teams are ranked in the NCAA Division I...

15. A-List

    Nanci Griffith & Blue Moon Orchestra

    By Rick Mason

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Texan Nanci Griffith is a superb, often literary, songwriter whose work in the '70s and '80s frequently mined similar dusty cow-town territory as Larry McMurtry's The Last...

16. A-List

    Louis XIV

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: March 19, 2008

    If it seems like Louis XIV were just here, it's because they were. They played a sold-out crowd at the Fine Line, with the Editors and Hot Hot Heat also on the bill. This...

17. A-List

    Bill Santiago

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: March 19, 2008

    San Francisco native Bill Santiago started off as a journalist but switched to comedy when he realized, as he puts it, that as a reporter he was a joke. He was born to Puerto...

18. A-List

    World Storytelling Day

    By Ward Rubrecht

    Published: March 19, 2008

    In 1991, a Swedish holiday was born called Alle Berattres Dag, or "Everyone Tell a Story Day." With the maturation of the internet, storytellers networked across national...

19. A-List

    Farm Babies

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: March 19, 2008

    The internet, my friends, isn't just for porn and Wikipedia. Over the years it has grown to be a bastion of cuteness as well. Need proof? Wander on over to cuteoverload.com to...

20. A-List

    Richard Prince: Spiritual America

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Can an artist simultaneously celebrate and critique pop culture? Those familiar with the incredibly varied work of Richard Prince have seen appropriation, pop culture, and...