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1. Theater

   Rabbit Hole: Smart and soulful

   The play tracks a couple's struggles to cope with the loss of a child

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: April 2, 2008

   RABBIT HOLEat the Jungle Theaterthrough May 11;612.822.7063This mortal life, so suffused with those whom we can't imagine going on without; it's nothing short of an emotional...

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   Disney's High School Musical

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: April 2, 2008

   If you're unaware of the phenomenon of Disney's High School Musical, it started with a straight-to-cable movie, then extended its mighty tendrils into the realms of...

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   Bad Boy Bill

   By David Hansen

   Published: April 2, 2008

   A decade before Daft Punk dressed the club scene in jean jackets and Chuck Taylors, Bad Boy Bill, hard house's elder statesman, was spinning Moroder synth on six turntables and...

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   Kanser CD-Release Show

   By Jordan Selbo

   Published: April 2, 2008

   Local rap institution Kanser are releasing their seventh album, a feat of longevity and abundance almost as impressive as my man Favre's streak of games played. Future Retro...

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   Treehouse Records Seventh Anniversary Show

   By Cecile Cloutier

   Published: April 2, 2008

   It's been seven years since Uptown's Treehouse Records took the baton from the much-beloved Oarfolkjokeopus and set up shop in the little red brick building at the corner of...

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   Continental Ballet: Coppelia

   By Linda Shapiro

   Published: April 2, 2008

   She's a doll. He's her rather sinister creator. Thus begins the delicious ballet Coppelia, and the almost-downfall of young Franz, who mistakes Coppelia for a (perhaps more...

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   Alison Hiltner; Suzy Greenberg: Pathological

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: April 2, 2008

   Though the word "pathological" has many negative connotations, that doesn't mean this show will be dark. In fact, there probably will be light. Through a collaborative...

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   Idigaragua/Massgraves featuring Kill the Vultures

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: April 2, 2008

   Idigaragua is appearing at Bedlam as a remount; this rock opera debuted last year, mixing dance, puppets, film, and theater with director Jeremy Catterton's vision and live...

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   M.E. Smith

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: April 2, 2008

   Husband-wife author duo Matt and Erin Smith, writing under a single name, do for the pharmaceutical industry what John Grisham did for law. In their novel, Trials: The...

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    Karen Joy Fowler

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Can a novel be a mystery if it doesn't open with a body? Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club) has stated in interviews that she feels that Wit's End is indeed a...

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    Alex Lemon

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: April 2, 2008

    A muse can take many forms: nature, a lover, a feeling. Local writer Alex Lemon found his muse in brain surgery. The 27-year-old's first poetry collection, Mosquito, was...

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    Dáithí Sproule/HiBs

    By Rick Mason

    Published: April 2, 2008

    St. Paddy's may be past, but a couple of fine new Celtic albums will be making their debut at this concert. Ireland native and longtime Twin Cities resident...

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    Eels

    By David Hansen

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Resurrected by soundtrack contributions to Scrubs and Shrek, Mark Everett, the Eels' songwriter and principal member, has found second life in big business's attempt to...

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    Off-Kilter Comics

    By Peter Schilling

    Published: April 2, 2008

    When I was a kid the last things I wanted to read in the comics were the predictable and redundant exploits of the superheroes. X-Men or Fantastic Four? Screw that. I'd prefer...

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    Tift Merritt, everybodyfields

    By Rick Mason

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Tift Merritt's last recording, 2004's Tambourine, was a wonderful emulation of Dusty Springfield's adventurous foray into Memphis soul, complete with greasy Stax horns, raucous...

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    Shapiro & Smith Dance: Next Step

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Shapiro & Smith Dance rebounds from the death of artistic co-director Danial Shapiro in 2006 and a successful national tour of "Anytown" to music by Bruce Springsteen and the E...

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    Tristan Prettyman

    By David Hansen

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Remember all those carefree, collegiate hours you whiled away at Dunn Bros. open-mic nights? No? Well, Tristan Prettyman does, and vividly. One is loath to compare the Bay Area...

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    Dimmu Borgir

    By Rod Smith

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Dimmu Borgir's status as earth's most popular black-metal band hinges less on subgenre standards of merit than on the Norwegian sextet's knack for cramming nearly every excess...

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    Nada Surf

    By David Hansen

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Three important rules for being past your commercial prime—tour behind a solid album, remind your fans that you once charted in the U.K., and don't get too high on your...

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    The Incredible Boris

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: April 2, 2008

    All hypnosis, according to globetrotting hypnotist and entertainer the Incredible Boris, is self-hypnotism. He describes it this way: A mind is made up of two parts, the...