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By G.R. Anderson Jr. and Mike Mosedale
I. The Puzzle Palace
The Stephen Porter case is a prism. Tilt it one way, you can see the refracted image of Abner Louima, the Haitian...
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Jean Grae
The Bootleg of the Bootleg EP
Babygrande
Until recently, female MCs have been regarded by skeptics as a rare novelty in a dick-swinging pantheon. Though we live...
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Some days, you wake up thinking that the world stopped while you were sleeping and now you're the only one left. That feeling tends to hit you on late weekday mornings in St....
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Lyrics Born
Later That Day...
Quannum
Lyrics Born is figuring shit out, processing, venting, stressing like he made a wrong turn on his way out of Public Enemy's...
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Matmos
The Civil War
Matador
For San Francisco experimental duo Matmos, artificiality is next to godliness--or at least in its general vicinity. While their previous...
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The Sealed Knot
Surface/Plane
Meniscus
Lê Quan Ninh
Le Ventre Négatif
Meniscus
When confronted with a sticky problem, my metallurgy professor father...
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1) The Fiery Furnaces, Gallowsbird's Park (Rough Trade) Brooklynites Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger offer hilarious sibling-loathing liner notes and songs that seem to come...
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It takes only about 30 minutes of interview time for Minneapolis artist Richard Shelton to evoke the specter of psychologist Stanley Milgram. This is to explain the chaos of...
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Dear Dara;
Saw Wine & Dine--nice. Next time I get two weeks off I'll read it again. But if you're so smart, riddle me this, Kiddo: Why can you never find the same wine from...
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Tom Bissell
Chasing the Sea
Pantheon
First-rate travel writers are a bit like pied pipers: If they play their tune well enough, readers will follow them anywhere. In...
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Daniel Bergner
In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of Black and White in West Africa
Farrar Straus Giroux
Why read about Sierra Leone? The south of the continent offers...
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The Leann Chin in Uptown Minneapolis is 20,000 miles away from the river Indus, the birthplace of Hinduism, but it is where I had my most recent, and most...
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Walking fast down Broadway toward a screening at the New York Film Festival, I stumble upon George Clooney. Not the real George Clooney, alas, but the Clooney who leers at...
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So many things go clankingly wrong with the new version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre--a power tool that's both over-oiled and oddly toothless--that I'm almost embarrassed to...
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It's Thursday night at the Lion's Pause, a big, cubical concert hall on the campus of St. Olaf College in Northfield, and Tiki Obmar, the most celebrated band of teenagers in...
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Ever since Rocky II led my posse of North Dakota roughnecks to a four-and-a-half-hour anti-mushiness hunger strike, I've been sensitive to cultural letdowns. I had Carson...
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Hip hoppers have been paying tribute to kung fu since the Ming Dynasty, but it's the rare performer who draws from the postwar Japanese form of butoh. Yet that's just what...
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At long last, the Minnesota Timberwolves will embark upon a season in which there is no honor in a first-round playoff defeat. Every year since the fall of 1996, the...
