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Issue: March 22, 2006
Page: 1
19 stories found - 1 through 19
  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. Viewmaster

    Viewmaster

    Mike Mosedale
    Published: March 22, 2006

    Grop?

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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,"...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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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