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Kao Kalia Yang
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: April 9, 2008
Kao Kalia Yang was born in 1980 in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, a place that she called home for years. Her parents had somehow navigated the awkward stages of affection...
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James Howard Kunstler
By Ray Cummings
Published: April 9, 2008
Imagine that you're living in a post-oil United States of America. To thrive and survive, you're forced to learn a trade, barter for goods and services, and tend a garden plot...
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Kao Kalia Yang
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: April 9, 2008
Kao Kalia Yang was born in 1980 in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, a place that she called home for years. Her parents had somehow navigated the awkward stages of affection...
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Jesse Malin/De Novo Dahl
Published: April 9, 2008
The rock 'n' roll troubadour has always evoked a certain romanticism. Jesse Malin is no exception, with his knack for Springsteen-esque lyricism and city-gritty themes of love,...
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Symbols, Myths, and Fairy Tales
By Fish DeSmith
Published: April 9, 2008
Legend has it the weaver Arachne was turned into a spider by a jealous Athena for the crime of overabundant talent. Storytelling and tapestry have been interwoven at least as...
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Neal Karlen
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: April 9, 2008
Fun fact: The Yiddish term for "she's good in bed" apparently literally translates to "she knows how to dance the mattress polka." Poetic, no? Just in time for Passover, which...
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Geoff Herbach
By Ben Palosaari
Published: April 9, 2008
Local author and Electric Arc Radio player Geoff Herbach's first novel, The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg, is very much like a Bob Newhart bit. You know, the ones in which he...
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John Prine/Paul Thorn
By Rick Mason
Published: April 9, 2008
John Prine's ragged drawl and sharp-eyed affinity for the plight of the tortured working stiff, etched with bitter humor and appropriate dashes of cynicism, have spawned a slew...
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Anti-Flag
By David Hansen
Published: April 9, 2008
With Pennzoil-slick punk production and political sensibilities that seem informed by irate high-schoolers copping a drag on cigarettes outside Cosmic Charlie's, Pittsburgh...
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Live Action Set: The Piano Tuner
By Caroline Palmer
Published: April 9, 2008
Live Action Set—a collaborative movement-theater troupe formed by Megan Odell, Noah Bremer, Galen Treuer, and Vanessa Voskuil—is responsible for some of the most...
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Bob Sagat
By P.F. Wilson
Published: April 9, 2008
"I'm loving my standup more than I ever have," says Bob Saget. "Because I feel like more people are getting it." Saget is probably best known as the dad on Full House, the host...
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Hot Buttered Rum
By Rick Mason
Published: April 9, 2008
The northern California quintet Hot Buttered Rum like to call themselves a rock band in bluegrass disguise. Armed with mandolins, banjo, upright bass, and fiddle, but no drums,...
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Fuck Buttons
By Erin Roof
Published: April 9, 2008
I imagine Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power are the kind of people who keep a pile of Hallmark cards for every occasion stashed in their kitchen drawer. Sure, they play noise...
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Doug Stanhope
By Matt Snyders
Published: April 9, 2008
It's unfortunate, and a bit ironic, that Doug Stanhope's most ubiquitous utterance: "Show us where babies feed!" is delivered to us via an overplayed Girls Gone Wild...
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Debashish Bhattacharya/The Biscuit Burners
By Rick Mason
Published: April 9, 2008
It might be pushing it to call Debashish Bhattacharya the Indian Elmore James, but both are masters of the slide guitar, slithering along the strings with exquisite touches,...
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Spotlight
Theater Spotlight: Idigaragua/Massgraves
By Quinton Skinner
Published: April 9, 2008
IDIGARAGUA/MASSGRAVES (in repertory)Lamb Lays with Lion; at Bedlam Theatre through April 13612.341.1038Lamb Lays with Lion offers up a twin bill of two one-hour shows that bear...
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Features
Did James Earl Ray act alone?
A Minneapolis author helps raise new questions about the King assassination
By Ellis E. Conklin
Published: April 9, 2008
THE BROTHER OF THE MAN most people believe killed Martin Luther King Jr. lives in a miniature brick house near the languishing downtown of Quincy, Illinois. Inside, the brown...
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News
State lawmaker tries to ban Salvia...
...so we decide to try the potent, legal psychedelic ourselves.
By Matt Snyders
Published: April 9, 2008
There's something vaguely unsettling about the myriad YouTube clips of people tripping on Salvia divinorum.Watching a young kid's eyes glaze over after just one bong rip and...
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Blotter
Wet and wild
A dishwasher accuses her bosses of being dirty creeps
Published: April 9, 2008
A dishwasher is accusing her bosses at the Owatonna Holiday Inn of putting her through a full cycle of sexual harassment. According to a lawsuit filed by Maria Armendariz...
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to "Soldier Suicides"
Published: April 9, 2008
War Torn Beth Walton's article on soldier suicides on the surface was disturbing (3/26/08). Most Americans not only want our soldiers to get the best care available upon...
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