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Café Scientifique: Fueling the Future
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: April 2, 2008
News flash: Cars won't be running on gasoline forever. As a non-renewable resource, our vehicles are, in fact, non-renewable. While it may seem fittingly ironic that amid the...
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A-List
Andy Statman Trio
By Rick Mason
Published: April 2, 2008
The remarkable Andy Statman is a virtuoso on a pair of very dissimilar instruments—mandolin and clarinet—and master of two equally different musical...
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A-List
Minnesota Wild vs. Calgary Flames
By Ben Palosaari
Published: April 2, 2008
Despite how closely Minnesota is associated with hockey, the sport has been cruel to its faithful fans. Hockey's biggest prize—sports' most storied trophy, the Stanley...
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A-List
James Sewell Ballet: Social Movements
By Caroline Palmer
Published: April 2, 2008
The 15th season of the Minneapolis-based company offers a variety of movement perspectives. Among the highlights is "Social Movements," a pairing of art and political...
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Spotlight
Theater Spotlight: Metamorphoses
By Quinton Skinner
Published: April 2, 2008
METAMORPHOSESTheatre Pro Rata; at the Loading Dock Theater through April 6;612.874.9321Mary Zimmerman's Ovid adaptation (based on David R. Slavitt's translation) recasts...
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Features
Judgment Call
A former judge accuses retiring Supreme Court Chief Justice Russell Anderson of playing politics
By Paul Demko
Published: April 2, 2008
When Russell Anderson announced last month that he'd be stepping down in June as chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, the reviews of his two-year tenure were glowing. ...
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Blotter
Virginia is the new Saudi Arabia
Rep. Michele Bachmann solves the energy crisis while watching The Beverly Hillbillies
Published: April 2, 2008
Let's face it: Harping on Rep. Michele Bachmann just ain't what it used to be. At this point, taking swipes at her fairy-tale worldview is like shooting fish in a barrel. No,...
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News
The Greatest Guitar Hero of Them All
Chris Chike, a.k.a. IamChris4life, is the Jimi Hendrix of the plastic ax
By Kevin Hoffman
Published: April 2, 2008
"I won't get an amazing score my first time, so this is kind of like a rough draft," says Chris Chike as he straps on a plastic guitar. He's tall and lithe, with a track...
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Letters to the Editor
Readers Respond to 'Sex, Drugs, & Awesome Hair'
Published: April 2, 2008
Hair metal memories As someone who has worked in the music and entertainment industry at the local, regional, and national levels, I wish to commend and thank you for the...
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Music
France Has the Bomb, but no leader
How one band found success with no frontman, a weird name, and an indefinable sound
By Christopher Matthew Jensen
Published: April 2, 2008
Amid the copious stacks of records, instruments, and recording equipment strewn about bassist Jacques Wait's wooden apartment floor, the members of the band France Has the Bomb...
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CD Review
Why?
Alopecia
By Ben Westhoff
Published: April 2, 2008
WHY? Alopecia Anticon Records The barrier to entry on Why?'s new CD, Alopecia, is sizable for those who aren't fans of semi-sarcastic, semi-rapped barbs cloaked in aloof quips...
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5ingles
5ingles
The Songs We Can't Escape
By Ray Cummings
Published: April 2, 2008
ISLANDS "Creeper" What the world needs more of, right now: more fake '80s synth-pop songs about knife-wielding burglars. Music & Lyrics II producers, holla at Nick...
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Critics' Picks
Critics Picks: Morcheeba and more
Published: April 2, 2008
WEDNESDAY 4.02 Morcheeba First Avenue The U.K. group recently assembled its sixth album of club-ready electronica with singers and musicians it found on MySpace. Built on...
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Dish
Otho: Pioneers of Portland Avenue
The first fine-dining restaurant in a gentrifying neighborhood has its share of hits and misses
By Rachel Hutton
Published: April 2, 2008
OTHO RESTAURANT AND STREET LOUNGE949 Portland Ave. S., Minneapolis612.455.1516 • www.othorestaurant.comentrées $10-$16; appetizers $6-$9The inevitability of change...
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À la carte
The Best of Both Worlds
What do you get when you cross the cuisines of Ethiopia and Singapore? Good things. Very good things.
By James Norton
Published: April 2, 2008
T'S PLACE 2713 E. Lake St., Minneapolis 612.724.8868 • www.tsmpls.com"Fusion" has become a dirty word among those who love good food, and not without reason....
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Savage Love
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
Published: April 2, 2008
I am a 28-year-old straight girl two years into my first marriage. New job, new home, and new city 1,200 miles from my closest friends. It was really lonely at first, not...
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Free Will Astrology
Free Will Astrology
By Rob Brezsny
Published: April 2, 2008
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the film Fight Club, the character played by Brad Pitt storms into a convenience store with a gun, then herds the clerk out back and threatens to...
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Culture Jamming
Forbidden Hollywood's old-school filth tops this week's pop culture picks
By Michael Gallucci
Published: April 2, 2008
TOP PICK – TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 2 (Warner)Back in the early 1930s, Hollywood churned out tons of racy movies about drug abuse, murder, and...
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Game On
Paging Freaks
Guinness writes the book on gaming, but doesn't shatter any records.
By Chris Ward
Published: April 2, 2008
As a kid, I spent countless hours thumbing through a dog-eared copy of The Guinness Book of World Records, determined to find just the right stupid human trick to vault me into...
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Movies
Leatherheads stopped at fourth and inches
George Clooneys ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.
By Scott Foundas
Published: April 2, 2008
LEATHERHEADSdirected by George Clooneyarea theaters, starts FridayWhen Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie...
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