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For months now the front pages of daily papers across the country have heralded sporadic sightings of a fresh economic upturn. But for most working Americans, any return to...
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On October 20, Governor Tim Pawlenty and Jim Humphrey, president and CEO of the Minnesota-based Andersen Corporation, got together at the state Capitol for a big...
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Lately my dearest friend has been wrestling with whether to have kids. Wanting like crazy for her to have everything life has to offer, I've tried my best to talk her through...
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In 19 years of driving cab for Red & White Taxi, Steve LaBosco has never been robbed. There have been a few close calls. Just a few weeks back, after his cab broke down,...
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You could feel a small shudder of collective titillation two Saturdays ago when the Star Tribune reported that Charles Moose had applied to be the new Minneapolis police...
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People out on the streets
They don't know who I am
I watch them from my room
They just pass me by
I'm not just anyone
I'm not just anyone
-- Rocket From the Tombs,...
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Indie filmmaker Mary Harron once asked Richard Hell if he had any advice for his fans, to which he responded, "One, try to overcome hope. Two, cultivate your most 'shameful'...
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The Irish call it "a taste of ashes"--that brush with death that comes when loved ones start dropping like autumn leaves, forcing everybody within ash-shot to confront their...
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My Favorite
The Happiest Days of Our Lives
Double Agent
Pretension is the new punk. Just as with yesterday's pejoratives, punk and queer, folks have now reclaimed the...
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2532 Nicollet Ave.,...
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When recounting the tumult of these past few years, Will Grigsby speaks in a soft, almost flat tone that could be construed as a sign of defeat. But his speech is less a...
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By Anonymous as told to Jim Walsh
I work part-time at the Pottery Barn Kids at the Galleria in Edina. I'm working next Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. We had a meeting...
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The red-hatted, beard-wearing character in Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa is bad indeed. How bad is he? When we first encounter this degenerate St. Nick, a.k.a. Willie T. Stokes...
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Sporting a chic red-and-black design, the posters that advertise Cinema Revolution, a new DVD rental store in south Minneapolis, read like post-Marxist propaganda for digital...
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I don't know what's more offensive here: director Ron Howard's idea of a 21st-century Western or the fact that Cate Blanchett can't seem to land a part in a movie worthy of...
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At first glance, Sean Connaughty resembles a Martha Stewart protégé neck-deep in a messy home-restoration project. The artist's studio is one of the few left in...
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A cliché by definition is impotent, enervated by overuse. Yet that overuse bespeaks an evolutionary fitness that can't derive solely from lazy writing, speech, and...
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Less than two weeks ago, the Timberwolves seemed headed for the sort of nasty freefall that could have tensed up the locker room and turned the prospect of securing home-court...
