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1. Cover Story

   9/11-Another Minnesota Connection?

   Nancy Hanlon says she met and talked with one of the 9/11 hijackers in a Rochester, Minnesota bar just weeks before the attack. Is it true? There's no telling for sure. Is her story plausible? Yes.

   Douglas McGill

   Published: June 30, 2004

   Late one evening in August of 2001, Nancy Hanlon finished her shift as the cardiac ward secretary at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester and headed to C.J.'s, a downtown bar...

2. News

   Superintendents, Inc.

   The new Minneapolis public schools super, groomed the corporate way by a conservative foundation

   Beth Hawkins

   Published: June 30, 2004

   As the Minneapolis School Board wrapped up two days of interviews with the three finalists for the district superintendent's post two weeks ago, one of the applicants offered...

3. News Briefs

   911'S A Joke In Your Town?

   G.R. Anderson Jr.

   Published: June 30, 2004

   It was a good day for public urinators and doobie smokers. For the rest of the citizenry, last Wednesday's unveiling of Minneapolis Police Chief William McManus's proposed...

4. Viewmaster

   Viewmaster

   Mike Mosedale

   Published: June 30, 2004

   Eat Street: Scene at a Mexican restaurant on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis

5. Real Life Rock Top 10

   Real Life Rock Top 10

   Lucinda bids Dylan good morning, Patti Smith greets Baghdad, and Greil Marcus says goodbye

   Greil Marcus

   Published: June 30, 2004

   1) Leah Garchik, June 14 (San Francisco Chronicle) Regarding George W. Bush declaring the day of Ronald Reagan's funeral a national holiday, bold-faced names columnist Garchik...

6. Radio Gaga

   R. Kelly: "Happy People"

   Dylan Hicks

   Published: June 30, 2004

   R. Kelly "Happy People" By the time this goes to press, barring an act of God or some other influential figure, R. Kelly's trial will have finally begun. If he's found...

7. Dish

   Great Humor

   Three Minnesota gems with ice cream cakes and frozen pies prove you can have your cake and lick it too

   Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

   Published: June 30, 2004

   Izzy's Ice Cream Café 2034 Marshall Ave., St. Paul 651.603.1458 Medical Arts Building 825 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis 612.338.0022 Marshall Fields Minneapolis,...

8. Jim Walsh

   The First Avenue Massacre

   What Steve McClellan's pink slip said

   Jim Walsh

   Published: June 30, 2004

   The bulldozers finally came to First Avenue last week. As a handful of bystanders stood by, the plows methodically bashed into the landmark's walls until a heap of black...

9. Movies

   The Moore the Merrier: Two Appreciations of 'Fahrenheit 9/11'

   Published: June 30, 2004

   Michael Moore Wages The War of Art By Mathew Wilder "I just have to tell you--I think Navy SEALs rock!" gushes a helmet-haired anchormodel to a sheepish, jut-jawed military...

10. Movies

    This Land Is Whose Land?

    Canvassing Disney's 'America' with an independent filmmaker

    Rob Nelson

    Published: June 30, 2004

    Fahrenheit 9/11 isn't the only political documentary this week. In fact, the doc that Disney has chosen to distribute instead--America's Heart & Soul, billed as "a thrill...

11. Arts Feature

    Girl, Interrupted

    Before Plain Layne disappeared, readers knew her as a fiery online diarist, an outspoken lesbian, and a beauty straight out of a Midwestern Botticelli. Afterward, they knew her as a hoax.

    Rex Sorgatz

    Published: June 30, 2004

    If you wanted to know something about Layne Johnson, all you had to do was ask her. Before she disappeared from her online perch at plainlayne.dreamhost.com a few weeks ago,...

12. Culture

    Still Smokin'

    Dave Chappelle lights up the Orpheum stage; giggling ensues

    Bridgette Reinsmoen

    Published: June 30, 2004

    Dave Chappelle isn't thrilled with every aspect of the fame he's garnered from the success of his hit program on Comedy Central. On Chappelle's Show, which combines sketches...

13. Yard

    The Odd Couple

    Lew Ford and Matthew LeCroy Provide levity and line drives

    Brad Zellar

    Published: June 30, 2004

    Baseball's always been a breeding ground for characters. And yet so desperate are the media for something to break up the usual monotonous accretion of locker room...