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Music
Word Warriors
The Twin Cities Battle League gives voice to underground freestyle MCs
By Jeff Shaw
Published: April 9, 2008
Relax: Illab does not really want to cut off a piece of your flesh to use as a bike reflector. Similarly, Shelltoe does not honestly believe your mom is, ahem, a lady of the...
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CD Review
Paul Metzger and Debashish Bhattacharya
By Rod Smith
Published: April 9, 2008
PAUL METZGER Gedanken Splitter Roaratorio DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey Riverboat Records Paul Metzger and Debashish Bhattacharya...
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5ingles
5ingles
The Songs We Can't Escape
By Ray Cummings
Published: April 9, 2008
ACID EATER "Nothing Can Bring Me Down" Ahhhh, yasssss—fuzzed-out, distorted-to-the-max garage-punk goodness: the perfect way to kick off the morning, every damnable day....
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Critics' Picks
Critics Picks: KRS-ONE and more
Published: April 9, 2008
WEDNESDAY 4.09Blitzen Trapper7th St. EntryHaving trouble reconciling your classic-rock guilty pleasure with your avant-garde sensibilities? Well, Blitzen Trapper may be what...
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Dish
Splendid Table cookbook on trial
We put Lynne Rossetto Kasper's latest to the test
By Rachel Hutton
Published: April 9, 2008
Every time I open the cookbook cupboard at my house, a pile of weighty hardbound tomes, saddle-stitched softcovers, magazine pages, newspaper clippings, email printouts, and...
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À la carte
Roseville's China Jen is an old-school adventure
A quest for the elusive soup dumpling leads to a rough-around-the-edges find
By James Norton
Published: April 9, 2008
CHINA JEN 2193 Snelling Ave., Roseville 651.633.3113 Word on the street is that there's a humble little Chinese place in Roseville that has soup dumplings. There's no shame in...
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Savage Love
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
Published: April 9, 2008
I thought I could bang out a column today—a regular column, a column about my readers' problems and their freaky fetishes and all those asshole politicians out there. You...
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Free Will Astrology
Free Will Astrology
By Rob Brezsny
Published: April 9, 2008
ARIES (March 21-April 19): High-definition TV makes everything look more vivid than standard broadcast technology. Images are so high-quality they almost appear 3-D. While this...
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Pucker Up
The New Wave of Trans Cinema
The latest transporn breaks down both boundaries and inhibitions
By Tristan Taormino
Published: April 9, 2008
I spent my weekend watching transpeople fuck on film. A lot. OK, a lot is a relative term. I mean it took up a chunk of time, but there's not exactly an abundance of...
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Game On
Just Shy of Seaworthy
Viking: Battle for Asgard shows promise, but not much more.
By Gary Hodges
Published: April 9, 2008
It's nice when a game comes along that pleasantly surprises you. I admit, I judged Viking: Battle for Asgard by the screenshots, writing it off as yet another one of those...
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Highlight
Film Highlight: His Girl Friday
By Matthew Wilder
Published: April 9, 2008
HIS GIRL FRIDAYParkway Theater, Monday at 7:30 p.m.Like Mozart and Marivaux, the makers of this 1940 comedy transmit the essential pleasures of being alive: the invention of...
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Movies
Street Kings is shallow
The look at dirty police is a cop out
By Tim Grierson
Published: April 9, 2008
STREET KINGSdirected by David Ayerarea theaters, starts FridayFor a movie built around questions of failed ethics and duplicitous behavior, Street Kings is just as dishonest as...
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