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1. Cover Story

   The Invisible Recovery

   Author and economist Doug Henwood on jobless recoveries, the two Americas, and the "Wal-Mart effect"

   Steve Perry

   Published: November 26, 2003

   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...

2. Cover Story

   What Friends Are For

   Andersen Windows had $2 billion in sales last year. And next year, a new Pawlenty administration program will give the company a big tax break.

   Mike Mosedale

   Published: November 26, 2003

   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 announcement....

3. Cover Story

   The Parent Trap

   Want to be "middle class"? Don't have kids.

   Beth Hawkins

   Published: November 26, 2003

   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...

4. News

   Hack Attack

   For cabbies, the mean streets keep getting meaner

   Mike Mosedale

   Published: November 26, 2003

   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,...

5. City Affairs

   Moose in a China Shop

   A celebrity candidate joins the race for the MPD chief's job

   G.R. Anderson Jr.

   Published: November 26, 2003

   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 chief....

6. Music

   Tomb Raider

   Before Pere Ubu, before the Dead Boys, there was Cleveland's Rocket From the Tombs

   Peter S. Scholtes

   Published: November 26, 2003

   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,...

7. Music

   The Danger Within

   Bridge Club: Nice Minnesota boys, waiting to self-destruct

   Melissa Maerz

   Published: November 26, 2003

   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'...

8. Music

   Kick Ash

   Ike Reilly and the bloody rite of Thanksgiving eve

   Jim Walsh

   Published: November 26, 2003

   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...

9. CD Review

   My Favorite: The Happiest Days of Our Lives

   J. Niimi

   Published: November 26, 2003

   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 term...

10. Dish

    Party Favors

    A quartet of places offer creative solutions to potluck-season woes

    Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

    Published: November 26, 2003

    Abu Nader Deli &Amp; Grocery 2095 Como Ave. St. Paul 651.647.5391 Capital Deli 291 W. University Ave., St. Paul 651.209.8388 Jasmine Deli 2532 Nicollet Ave.,...

11. City Beat

    The Pugilist at Rest

    Mike Mosedale

    Published: November 26, 2003

    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...

12. Jim Walsh

    A Spy In The House of Stuff

    When the going gets tough, the rich go shopping for their kids

    Jim Walsh

    Published: November 26, 2003

    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...

13. Movies

    Satan Claus

    The man in red runs rampant in 'Bad Santa'; Reliving 'Silent Night, Deadly Night'

    Rob Nelson

    Published: November 26, 2003

    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...

14. Movies

    The Revolution Will Be Digitized

    Jeremy O'Kasick

    Published: November 26, 2003

    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...

15. Movies

    Free Opie

    Director Ron Howard cuts loose and goes 'Missing'

    Terri Sutton

    Published: November 26, 2003

    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 her...

16. Arts Feature

    Connaughty's Choice

    How one artist has gone from crafting 48-foot paintings to walking on plants--all in search of the spontaneous image

    Michael Fallon

    Published: November 26, 2003

    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...

17. Theater

    Boys Will Be Young Male Humans

    The Jungle finds men behaving predictably; Gaia's feminine comique

    Dylan Hicks

    Published: November 26, 2003

    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...

18. Hang Time

    A Hard Road

    Banged-up team meets brutal schedule

    Britt Robson

    Published: November 26, 2003

    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...