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1. Savage Love

   Savage Love

   By Dan Savage

   Published: May 21, 2008

   I'm writing on behalf of a 19-year-old guy with cerebral palsy. As you may know, CP is a brain affliction resulting from insufficient oxygen at birth, and it causes the part...

2. Movies

   Indiana Jones and the Fortress of Sad Decline

   Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a deep hole

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: May 21, 2008

   INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL directed by Steven Spielberg area theaters, starts Thursday Here's your hat, Indy, but, really, what's your hurry? Because...

3. Theater

   These Shining Lives: Heartbreaking real-life drama

   Factory women discover their jobs have given them cancer

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: May 21, 2008

   THESE SHINING LIVESat History Theatrethrough June 1651.292.4323Gainful employment these days comes with certain reasonable expectations: workplace safety, a proper degree of...

4. A-List

   Growth and Justice: The Second Quadrennial Worst Political Advertising in America Awards

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: May 21, 2008

   It's no secret that political advertising can get really annoying. Enter this Wednesday's "Worst Political Advertising in America Awards," an event lampooning the most...

5. A-List

   Chuck Palahniuk

   By Rhena Tantisunthorn

   Published: May 21, 2008

   Chuck Palahniuk's latest book, Snuff, is an excuse for the author to come up with creative titles for porn. For this alone it is well worth the read. Some of the most...

6. A-List

   Matt Kirshen

   By P.F. Wilson

   Published: May 21, 2008

   Matt Kirshen says he's the comedic equivalent of '90s rock band Bush. That is to say, he's recognized in America far more than he is in his native Britain. His celebrity status...

7. A-List

   Barhopping: Bad Waitress

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: May 21, 2008

   It's a rare day that I find a place that serves beer and wine and has free wi-fi. Off the top of my head I can name only three around town. But of those, this may be the most...

8. A-List

   Monty Python's Spamalot

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: May 21, 2008

   Those of us of a certain age, and with what Lisa Simpson once accurately tagged "nerdly tendencies," remember with inordinate fondness our first encounter with that spastic...

9. A-List

   Soundset 08

   By Andrea Swensson

   Published: May 21, 2008

   The list of notable indie rappers performing at the Soundset 08 festival is obscenely long—if they have low ticket sales, they can probably still fill the Metrodome...

10. A-List

    Alicia Wiley

    By Amber Schadewald

    Published: May 21, 2008

    A young woman who considers herself on the shy side, Alicia Wiley looks nowhere near timid when she's sitting behind her piano onstage. Combining a variety of soulful music...

11. A-List

    Company Inc.

    By Pat O'Brien

    Published: May 21, 2008

    On 2007's Limited Liability, Company Inc. let us take a peek into their weird, wonderful world. Cellos that start, bounce along, and disappear just as abruptly as they arrived....

12. A-List

    Leisure Birds

    By David Hansen

    Published: May 21, 2008

    From the starter pistol to the finish tape, tonight's Turf Club show is poised to unfold like an Olympic sprint. This evening, two of the Twin Cities' most well conditioned and...

13. A-List

    Eddy Burke & the Consequences

    By Jen Paulson

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Eddy Burke's folk smirks with a smart, other-side-of-the-tracks wisdom. Taking on a variety of influences, it ranges from moments of rock 'n' roll to deeply affecting folk...

14. A-List

    Design for the Other 90%

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: May 21, 2008

    According to the press release for this show, 90 percent of the world's population, or 5.8 billion people, have no access (or sparse access) to products and services we take...

15. A-List

    Before the Teardown

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: May 21, 2008

    With all due respect to the crop of sleek, soaring skyscrapers clumped in downtown Minneapolis, there were some pretty cool buildings around downtown before the rise of glass...

16. A-List

    Walker On the Green: Artist Designed Miniature Golf

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Walker Art Center's two brand-new, seven-hole mini golf courses aren't your average putt-putt experience. They don't have oversize windmill blades covering the tunnel to the...

17. A-List

    Marya Hornbacher

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Marya Hornbacher was only 22 when she received critical praise for her bestselling memoir, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, which recounted her childhood and teen...

18. A-List

    Small Cities

    By Andrea Swensson

    Published: May 21, 2008

    There's only one problem with the Small Cities's debut EP: It's four tracks long. The self-recorded, self-titled disc plays like a dream, with intricate pop structures...

19. A-List

    Eric Alexander and David Hazeltine

    By Rick Mason

    Published: May 21, 2008

    A prime pair of players on the New York jazz scene, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander and pianist David Hazeltine both are old school enough to evoke lots of their illustrious...

20. A-List

    Gordon Johnson

    By Rick Mason

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Minneapolis native Gordy Johnson traveled the globe, supplying plump, pungent bass lines for the likes of Maynard Ferguson, Roy Buchanan, and Chuck Mangione before returning...