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    MPR Broadcast Journalist Series: Bob Garfield

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Bob Garfield is the Castro of consumerism; a bearded rebel leader with ideas that unify people. The host of NPR's On the Media, and author of what is widely regarded as the...

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    Muja Messiah CD-Release Show

    By Jordan Selbo

    Published: March 19, 2008

    The self-proclaimed "b-boy d-boy" Muja Messiah has been a prominent figure in the local scene longer than you've been potty trained, but with some recent moves making noise...

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    Avi

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Avi knows a thing or two about struggling as a writer. As a child, the author was afflicted by dysgraphia, a disability similar to dyslexia, which causes trouble with spelling...

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    Plies and Flo Rida

    By Jordan Selbo

    Published: March 19, 2008

    As a lifelong rap head, I don't know whether I should revel in or disguise the fact that I've never heard even one song from either Floridian rapper Plies or Flo Rida. On the...

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    Les Claypool

    By Pat O'Brien

    Published: March 19, 2008

    You either love or hate Les Claypool—there's no real middle ground. He plays his bass in a mixture of flamenco, slap, and finger-tapping styles, which is either extremely...

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    Gary Louris

    By Rick Mason

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Longtime Jayhawk Gary Louris returns home in the middle of a tour marking the release of his first solo album, Vagabond (Ryko). Unsurprisingly, the disc is reminiscent of the...

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    Cassandra and Jawaahir Dance Company: Girls Night In

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Cassandra Shore has shared her love of Middle Eastern dance and music with Minnesotans for many years; her commitment to bridging the geographic and cultural divide never...

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    D.L. Hughley

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: March 19, 2008

    A lot of comedians say that having a sense of humor got them out of fights with bullies when they were kids. Not D.L. Hughley. "I think it got me into more scrapes," he says....

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    Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater: The Ends of Love

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: March 19, 2008

    This month we get a double dose of the always inspiring Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater; a two week run featuring a national premiere and a repertory favorite. This weekend SPDT...

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    Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater: Ways to Be Hold

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: March 19, 2008

    This month we get a double dose of the always inspiring Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater; a two week run featuring a national premiere and a repertory favorite. This weekend SPDT...

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    Metamorphoses

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Theatre Pro Rata stages Mary Zimmerman's Tony Award-winning take on classical myth in a big pool of water, evoking birth, submersion, oblivion, and transformation: all of the...

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    X

    By Geoff Cannon

    Published: March 19, 2008

    X are a band with a collective persona so perfect it's like they stepped out of a novel: There's the blank and scary name, the high-velocity romanticism built out of junk-shop...

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    British Sea Power

    By Chris Henderson

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Do You Like Rock Music? charts the latest step in the evolution that took British Sea Power from post-punk-flavored debut The Decline of British Sea Power to slicker sophomore...

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    The Boredoms

    By Cecile Cloutier

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Japan's Boredoms started off 20 or so years ago as a clattery way to prove your avant-garde mettle (and chase off pesky officemates). But over dozens of side projects, the...

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    National Geographic Live Speakers Series: Brady Barr

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: March 19, 2008

    To be blunt, Brady Barr puts the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, rest his soul, to shame. Barr, the second speaker of the National Geographic Live series to swing through town,...

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    These United States

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Timelessness and universality are two qualities missing from most contemporary music—which is a lot of the reason why These United States feel like such a breath of fresh...

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    Styles P

    By Jordan Selbo

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Although almost always overshadowed by his LOX/D-Block brethren Jadakiss on their collective projects, the Yonkers-bred Styles P possesses more than enough hardcore magnetism...

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    The Birth of Coffee

    By Amy Lieberman

    Published: March 19, 2008

    The categorization of great coffee as a fine art has taken on a new meaning. After hitting Boston, New York, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., over the past few years, the...

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    Radio All Stars

    By Ward Rubrecht

    Published: March 19, 2008

    We're all familiar with the concept behind radio variety shows. After all, we've got one of the only still-successful productions, A Prairie Home Companion, going on in our...

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    Warren Read

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Thanks to various services made more readily available on the internet, genealogy has grown as a U.S. pastime. Though many may find new and interesting factoids about their...