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Cinco de Mayo Celebration
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: April 30, 2008
Monster trucks and German luxury cars are so overrated. Anyone who cruises down Lake Street in Minneapolis and near University and Snelling in St. Paul knows that sparkly,...
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All the Way Rider
By David Hansen
Published: April 30, 2008
Spending a good deal of 2007 recording The Eagle's Revenge, an expansive and melodic full-length that takes wing tonight at the Triple Rock, and paring their lineup from a...
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The Proclaimers
By Ben Palosaari
Published: April 30, 2008
Almost nobody knows the names of Scottish twins Charlie and Craig Reid. Few, in this country anyway, probably know the Reids' band the Proclaimers. But everybody, everybody,...
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The Fifth Annual Bent Festival
By Ben Palosaari
Published: April 30, 2008
It's time to dig out your old Speak & Spell. Of course, the 1970s futuristic toy is comically outdated now that kids are glued to Nintendo DS and Xbox 360, but the playtime...
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Chad Daniels
By P.F. Wilson
Published: April 30, 2008
“I’d like to be in the south watching an old white Democrat vote this year,” comic Chad Daniels told The Daily Show. “He’s probably going to go...
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Keith Gessen
By Rhena Tantisunthorn
Published: April 30, 2008
Keith Gessen's first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, centers on three young men, recent college graduates, filled with the angst of looming adulthood. Mark fights the...
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Leif Enger
By Rhena Tantisunthorn
Published: April 30, 2008
It is the general belief that the success of most novelists' sophomore attempts is inversely proportional to the success of their first novels. Monte Becket, the main character...
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Kate Nash
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: April 30, 2008
Kate Nash is a sensation on MySpace, and she's more than a little notorious for Lily Allen's endorsement of her. It might make some wince to hear that, but sometimes you do...
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Kathleen Edwards
By Rick Mason
Published: April 30, 2008
Measures of plucky playfulness occasionally poke through on Kathleen Edwards's latest and strongest album, Asking for Flowers (Zoe/Rounder). She compares herself to "Elvis...
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Black Kids
By Ray Cummings
Published: April 30, 2008
Buzz can only get you so far, but it never hurts to reek of it. For all the continuing hype Florida quintet Black Kids have generated, it's notable that while they've played an...
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Tokyo Police Club
By Erin Roof
Published: April 30, 2008
The Tokyo influence is understandable. A crew of chilly kids from Canada could realistically covet Harajuku clothes that don't need to be buried under a parka. It's the police...
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Greg Brown
By Jen Paulson
Published: April 30, 2008
Seen in many ways as a legend, Iowa's Greg Brown is no stranger to neighboring Minnesota. The folk hero and co-founder of Red House Records (along with the late Bob Feldman) is...
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Spotlight
Theater Spotlight: Border Crossing
By Quinton Skinner
Published: April 30, 2008
BORDER CROSSING Off-Leash Area; at the Ritz Theatre through May 4 612.436.1129 It's difficult to imagine any work about the U.S.-Mexico border and illegal immigration not...
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Features
Dosh's World
Electronic one-man band Martin Dosh steps out of the background and into the spotlight
By Jeff Severns Guntzel
Published: April 30, 2008
In a booth at a neighborhood pub in south Minneapolis, a slumped and bearded Martin Dosh is staring into his beer, tapping his fingers on the table, and talking about a coming...
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News
This Old Folks' Home
They thought they were buying into a lively condominium, but now find themselves living at a retirement community
By Paul Demko
Published: April 30, 2008
Shannon Loecher spent two years searching for her dream condominium. Every development she toured had a flaw: The price was too high or the location was inconvenient or the...
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News
Web Exclusive: University of St. Thomas law school bans public service at Planned Parenthood
The controversy is just the latest political dust-up at the embattled Catholic university
By Jonathan Kaminsky
Published: April 30, 2008
For Tara Borton, choosing a place to volunteer over the summer for school credit was a no-brainer. The first-year student at the University of St. Thomas School of Law was...
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Blotter
Hunger Strike
Snub leaves protest group wanting answers—and breakfast
Published: April 30, 2008
For 12 years now, protest group AlliantAction has held Wednesday-morning candle vigils outside Alliant Techsystem's (formerly Honeywell) premises in Edina to protest the...
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to "The Drug Test"
Published: April 30, 2008
Drug news you can use I followed the author's instructions up to the part where I was supposed to be in my easy chair ("The Drug Test," 4/9/08). I toked half of the 30X sample...
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Music
How Atmosphere Went Electro
Why Lemons is like Tom Waits for Prince Fans
By Peter S. Scholtes
Published: April 30, 2008
ATMOSPHERE When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold Rhymesayers Entertainment It's just another part of the musical process to hear new songs in old ones. John...
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CD Review
Mute Era
Light Dreams of Darkness/Night Dreams of Day
By David Hansen
Published: April 30, 2008
MUTE ERA Light Dreams of Darkness/Night Dreams of Day self-released After four years spent making rounds, Minneapolis two-piece Mute Era at last have a release to decorate...
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