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1. Features

   Buried Treasure

   On the Iron Range, the surging commodities market may bring prosperity. But it might also threaten one of the state's greatest natural resources.

   By Jonathan Kaminsky

   Published: May 7, 2008

   DEEP IN MINNESOTA'S NORTH WOODS, a doughy 24-year-old in a flannel shirt and camouflage baseball cap turns the wheel of a Ford F-150 pickup to steer from a paved two-lane...

2. News

   University of Minnesota's Campus Con Man

   Drinking buddies and ex-girlfriends were surprised to discover that the U of M student was 39 years old

   By Andy Mannix

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Two days after Christmas, Sergei Dmitriev was visiting his family in Reno when he received a phone call from a distraught roommate in Minneapolis informing him that their house...

3. Dish

   The best way to help animals may be to eat them

   Why compassionate carnivorism just might work better than going vegetarian

   By Rachel Hutton

   Published: May 7, 2008

   THE COMPASSIONATE CARNIVORE by Catherine Friend Da Capo Press, $24 RISING MOON FARM www.risingmoonfarm.com FARM IN THE MARKET Midtown Global Market 920 E. Lake St. #129,...

4. Savage Love

   Savage Love

   By Dan Savage

   Published: May 7, 2008

   I'm 16 and gay. I recently got into an argument with my parents over whether HIV is spread by saliva or if you can be infected during oral sex. I thought that you were safe...

5. Movies

   Speed Racer: On the fast track to nowhere

   The souped-up, tricked out film puts anime in overdrive

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: May 7, 2008

   SPEED RACERdirected by Andy and Larry Wachowskiarea theaters, starts FridayConverting a fondly remembered cartoon series—one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on...

6. Theater

   The American Pilot examines the soul of a superpower

   The story of a downed airman reflects the U.S.'s place in the world

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: May 7, 2008

   THE AMERICAN PILOTWalking Shadow Theatre Companyat Minneapolis Theatre Garagethrough May 18; 612.375.0300It used to be said that when England sneezed, Ireland caught a cold....

7. Spotlight

   Theater Spotlight: Once on This Island

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: May 7, 2008

   ONCE ON THIS ISLANDTen Thousand Things; at Open Book through May 11, at Minnesota Opera Center May 16-18612.203.9502Ten Thousand Things stages this one-act musical with spirit...

8. A-List

   Intelliphunk's 10-Year Anniversary Party: IPH1138

   By Jen Boyles

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Long ago in a rave galaxy far away (or just Minneapolis some years back), a consensus was reached between friends at a party that Intellephunk's super-dedicated founding DJ,...

9. A-List

   God Damn Doo Wop Band

   By David Hansen

   Published: May 7, 2008

   After a lengthy hiatus, the God Damn Doo Wop Band return to the Hexagon like Arthur from Avalon (or would Col. Bowie from the Alamo be a more fitting analogy?). After a perfect...

10. A-List

    Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum: French Twist

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: May 7, 2008

    For the past 16 years Joe Chvala has melded diverse forms of percussive dance into dramatic spectacles. He's created everything from Scandinavian epics with pagan Nordic heroes...

11. A-List

    The Hollow

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Agatha Christie possessed an obsessive talent for drawing up characters, dropping them into tidy scenarios involving mysterious murders, and then drawing out the various...

12. A-List

    The Black Hollies

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: May 7, 2008

    The Black Hollies really like the '60s. Their past efforts, including 2005's Crimson Reflections, have all the makings of a garage or basement rock band from the era: fuzzy...

13. A-List

    Goth Prom V: Contrivance Deus Ex Machina

    By Cecile Cloutier

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Crank up the Bauhaus, tighten those corset strings, and slap on the wine-dark lipstick: It's Goth Prom time again. Here's your chance to either right the wrongs of yesteryear...

14. A-List

    The Lost Empire: Photographer to the Tsar

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: May 7, 2008

    If there is one thing to be said about Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, it's that he was ambitious. He was a chemist and photographer who merged his passions by...

15. A-List

    Fashioned

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: May 7, 2008

    "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." So goes one of Mark Twain's most frequently quoted maxims. The second part of this idea is probably...

16. A-List

    Nancy Drew Crew

    By David Hansen

    Published: May 7, 2008

    It's sometimes hard to understand how Nancy Drew Crew, a three-piece hip-hop troupe that evokes the Shaggs on a 909, can manage to be so dry and yet so exuberant and gleeful,...

17. A-List

    The Archaeology of Downtown

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Ever wonder what secrets of the past are buried underneath downtown St. Paul skyscrapers? How about Nicollet Mall or the U of M campus? When thinking of archaeological dig...

18. A-List

    Erin Currie: Curster's Fantastico

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: May 7, 2008

    When an artist specializes in drawing people in furry suits and designing plushy toys, it's probably pretty easy to veer off into the realm of "too cute." Erin Currie manages...

19. A-List

    Trampled By Turtles

    By Jen Paulson

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Ignorance and incorrect assumptions had kept me from listening to Trampled by Turtles until I got a mix with their song "Stranger" on it—from that point on my mind was...

20. A-List

    Laura Veirs/Liam Finn

    By Rick Mason

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Lush imagery derived from the natural world again infests Laura Veirs's fresh crop of intensely literate songs on Saltbreakers, her third Nonesuch release. The briny sea is...