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Cover Story
Bird Flu: "This thing just continues to march"
The CP interview: Dr. Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy talks about the flu bug that could bring the world to its knees
Steve Perry
Published: March 22, 2006
Scare headlines about the possibility of a deadly flu pandemic have been with us for a few years now, ever since the H5N1 bird-flu virus that first appeared in Hong Kong in...
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News
Friendly Fire
At conservative think tank, staffers stand up for ex-boss, get canned
Mike Mosedale
Published: March 22, 2006
In a recent essay about the history of the conservative movement in Minnesota, Mitch Pearlstein, the founder of the Minneapolis-based think tank Center of the American...
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News
Meat Is Murder
Minnesota beef industries falls on lean times
Paul Demko
Published: March 22, 2006
On February 21, workers at the Minnesota Beef Industries factory in Buffalo Lake, about 75 miles west of the Twin Cities, were told to punch out and go home. The roughly 125...
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Viewmaster
Viewmaster
Mike Mosedale
Published: March 22, 2006
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Music
(Don't) Believe the Hype
Art Brut have come to bury rock 'n' roll--and deliver a rollicking eulogy
Lindsey Thomas
Published: March 22, 2006
Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll Fierce Panda For years rock 'n' roll has been in a desperate state. Mall punk and hip hop have taken over the airwaves, leaving poor old...
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CD Review
Cabruêra: Proibido Cochilar: Sambas for Sleepless Nights, Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars: Carnival Conspiracy: In the Marketplace All Is Subterfuge
Rick Mason
Published: March 22, 2006
Cabruêra Proibido Cochilar: Sambas for Sleepless Nights Piranha Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars Carnival Conspiracy: In the Marketplace All Is...
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CD Review
Edith Frost: It's a Game
Mikael Wood
Published: March 22, 2006
Edith Frost It's a Game Drag City Now that Liz Phair has grown up and embraced her inner Sheryl Crow, some lo-fi lady out there needs to step into Phair's old shoes and...
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CD Review
Various Artists: Soul Sides Volume One
Franklin Bruno
Published: March 22, 2006
various artists Soul Sides Volume One Zealous Records It stands to reason that the phenomenon of mp3 blogging would sooner or later result in related official (read...
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In Da Club
Pert' Near Sandstone at the Hexagon Bar
Mark Desrosiers
Published: March 22, 2006
Traditionally, March 18 is a night when bars are empty and hungover moans echo through our fair metropolis. Not so Saturday at the Hexagon Bar, which was standing-room-only...
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Dish
Have It All, Eat It Too
La Belle Vie is back: Momentous, stately, and the best restaurant in the history of Minneapolis
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Published: March 22, 2006
La Belle Vie 510 Groveland Ave., Minneapolis 612.874.6440 www.labellevie.us On my last dinner at La Belle Vie I was, on my arrival, trapped at the front door behind a...
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Dish
Most of the Enchilada
New D'Amico Mexican Restaurant Masa Is Casual and Likable, and Mixes a Damn Good Margarita. Isn't That Good Enough?
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Published: March 22, 2006
After nine years of reviewing restaurants nigh weekly, I took a long holiday this past winter, and, for nearly two months, dined in. During this time I received news about...
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Jim Walsh
Who's your daddy? No, seriously.
Is anyone seeking a Stanford student who jerked off into a cup in 1982?
Jim Walsh
Published: March 22, 2006
A few weeks ago, the Washington Post carried a story about so-called "Donor 401," the anonymous sperm donor in Virginia whose seed has fathered 11 children so far, and whose...
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Savage Love
Savage Love
Dan Savage
Published: March 22, 2006
My 18-year-old sister met a creepy old man (COM) when he snuck into a dorm party at my sister's college. He proposed to her on their first date after the party. Our parents...
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Free Will Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Rob Brezsny
Published: March 22, 2006
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Seventh grader Michael Kawa's poem is about the official face he shows the world. "My mask helps me when I am scared and when I am embarrassed,"...
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Movies
Mo' Bankrobbin' Blues
Spike Lee's 'Inside Man' takes the audience hostage
Michael Atkinson
Published: March 22, 2006
Given Inside Man's bullpen (director Spike Lee, stars Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster), moment in political history, and advertising, you could be forgiven for anticipating...
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Movies
My Mother, The Car
Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah drives 'Mercedes' home
Ed Gonzalez
Published: March 22, 2006
Yousry Nasrallah is the cinema's most remote of unknown pleasures. Years before he lobbed a grenade at film festivals worldwide with his four-and-a-half-hour pro-Palestinian...
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Theater
Short Attention Span Theater
Mixed Blood squeezes 15 plays into...Hey, look! Go-go dancers and Condi Rice!
Quinton Skinner
Published: March 22, 2006
In 2004, Mixed Blood Theatre enjoyed its greatest critical success in years with a collection of 10 short shows titled Bill of W(Rights)--a wordplay on the civil liberties...
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Theater
Spotlight: Tallgrass Gothic
'Tallgrass Gothic': The town is small; the pain is big
Quinton Skinner
Published: March 22, 2006
This heartland infidelity drama by Melanie Marnich renders passion and violence in stark, unforgiving colors. We first see long-suffering wife Laura (Maren Bush) with new...
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Hang Time
Oops
This year's Wolves: I screwed up--I trusted them
Britt Robson
Published: March 22, 2006
"Even if this team is serious about rebuilding, they will win more often than they will lose, and contend for the playoffs." Some moron writing under this byline composed...
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