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1. Features

   The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival returns, bigger and better

   An even larger lineup of movies is featured this year

   By Matthew Smith

   Published: April 16, 2008

   As if you didn't already have enough trouble picking which screenings to attend at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, this year's event will be significantly...

2. Savage Love

   Savage Love

   By Dan Savage

   Published: April 16, 2008

   Hey, everybody: In case you missed last week's column, I'm taking a week off because, well, go read last week's column if you care to know. Here's an old column—from May...

3. Free Will Astrology

   Free Will Astrology

   By Rob Brezsny

   Published: April 16, 2008

   ARIES (March 21-April 19): A reader from Fiji is encouraging me to pay a visit. "Fiji is heaven on earth," she says. "You'll be ecstatic here." While I have no doubt that's...

4. Theater

   A Shakespearean fable rewrites the story of our lives

   Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) tackles the universal and the everyday

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: April 16, 2008

   GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA (GOOD MORNING JULIET) Theatre Unbound at the Neighborhood House through April 27 612.721.1186 It's no huge secret that the narratives of our lives spring...

5. A-List

   Esperando La Carroza

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: April 16, 2008

   Esperando La Carroza marks Mixed Blood's 10th year of staging English-Spanish bilingual productions, and this adaptation by Jerry Ruiz of Uruguayan playwright Jacobo Langsner's...

6. A-List

   Trisha Brown Dance Company

   By Linda Shapiro

   Published: April 16, 2008

   Trisha Brown is an artist of and for our time, and has been for over 30 years. She began walking on walls and dancing on New York City rooftops in the hectic post-modern era of...

7. A-List

   A Tribute to Louis Armstrong

   By Rick Mason

   Published: April 16, 2008

   This celebration of the great jazz innovator and much-beloved Satchmo promises to kick off Orchestra Hall's new jazz series in spectacular fashion, while further strengthening...

8. A-List

   Paul Mecurio

   By P.F. Wilson

   Published: April 16, 2008

   For several years Paul Mecurio lived a secret double life. By day he was a Wall Street lawyer, and by night a standup comedian. "I was to the point where I would take two...

9. A-List

   P.M. Dawn

   By Ray Cummings

   Published: April 16, 2008

   P.M. Dawn's sultry, New Age melding of hip hop and R&B made perfect sense in the early 1990s, when any and every pop hybrid had an honest shot at serious chart status, no...

10. A-List

    History Room: 20 Years and No Name

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: April 16, 2008

    A lot has changed over the past 20 years. We've gone through three presidents. Macs became cool, then lame, then cool again. Alternative music became corporatized, then turned...

11. A-List

    Tribute to Ray Brown

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: April 16, 2008

    For half a century, Ray Brown, who died in 2002, was arguably jazz's premier bass player, leading his own bands, adapting to any contingency as a go-to sideman on legions of...

12. A-List

    Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether or Not I Have Stopped Dancing

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Trisha Brown is an artist of and for our time, and has been for over 30 years. She began walking on walls and dancing on New York City rooftops in the hectic post-modern era of...

13. A-List

    L.A. Guns

    By David Hansen

    Published: April 16, 2008

    With an image and a sound that evoke Alice Cooper slumming it up in a 3.2 beer joint, '80s rockers L.A. Guns have managed to project their tractor-pull cred and white tank-top...

14. A-List

    Queerographers' Evening

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Patrick's Cabaret and the University of Minnesota Dance Program team up to present the second annual "Queereographer's Evening," a celebration of movement generated by artists...

15. A-List

    Bret Michaels Rock of Love Tour

    By David Hansen

    Published: April 16, 2008

    With much of this tour's marketability owing a debt to his new career as VH1's puffiest reality-show Lothario, Bret Michaels, former frontman of Poison, is just the most recent...

16. A-List

    Night of Poets

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: April 16, 2008

    You were probably going to let National Poetry Month slip by with nary a recognition. Shame on you. National Poetry Month might not be comparable with Mardi Gras, but man...

17. A-List

    The Mars Volta

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: April 16, 2008

    L.A. band the Mars Volta come to town on the heels of their fourth album, The Bedlam in Goliath, which is stuffed with nine-minute alt-prog epics—the type the band has...

18. A-List

    Climate Change

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Quilting has long been an art form that spans both ends of the practical-whimsical spectrum. Sure, they're great for cuddling underneath on cold nights, but they also brighten...

19. A-List

    abNORML Minnesota Annual 420 Party

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: April 16, 2008

    The members of NORML (that's the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, for you straight edge kids out there) are not your garden-variety pot smokers. They are...

20. A-List

    Austin Dacey

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: April 16, 2008

    The Secular Conscience by well-known atheist and philosopher Austin Dacey makes a couple of interesting arguments about morals and their origin. Dacey proclaims...