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1. Theater

   No Answer

   The ambitious Q&A can't solve its unwieldy plot

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: May 28, 2008

   Q&A Mu Performing Arts at Mixed Blood Theatre through June 8 612.338.6131 THE BRAVE NEW WORKSHOP AT 50: OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER at the Brave New Workshop through June 21...

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   Spring Big Band Hangar Dance

   By Heidi Fellner

   Published: May 28, 2008

   The war years of the 1940s demanded sacrifice, dedication, and honor, not only from those serving overseas, but also from civilians on the American home front. Any World War II...

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   Grand Old Day

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: May 28, 2008

   Make no mistake: Grand Old Day may have an old-timey name, but there's nothing old-fashioned about this festival. In fact, it's so modern it has a MySpace page. This year is...

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   Midtown Global Market Second Birthday

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: May 28, 2008

   When Midtown Global Market opened its doors two years ago, there was concern that it wouldn't make it. Would Minnesotans want to sample the tasty treats offered from the...

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   Malachi Constant

   By David Hansen

   Published: May 28, 2008

   Our scene is a bedtime story, and Modern Radio, the label that has given us Vampire Hands, His Mischief, and many others, has spent nine years reading us our favorite parts....

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   Ramones Mania 2008

   By Jen Paulson

   Published: May 28, 2008

   Three-fourths of one of the best American punk bands of all time, the Ramones, are no longer with us. A drug and cancer sandwich, if you will—the initial death of Joey...

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   Dr. Gary Greenberg

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: May 28, 2008

   There is truth in the cliché that you can't judge a book by its cover. Gary Greenberg's latest photography book, A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder, is an example...

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   Red Hot Art Festival

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: May 28, 2008

   Between MOSAIC, Art-a-Whirl, and various Twin Cities gallery crawls, there are plenty of artistic events for your enjoyment this summer. One event worth heading outside and...

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   Ballet of the Dolls: Rite of Spring

   By Caroline Palmer

   Published: May 28, 2008

   Ninety-five years ago this month, Igor Stravinsky premiered his groundbreaking composition, "The Rite of Spring," in Paris. It caused a near-riot thanks to the music's modern...

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    Traci Tullius: Roger Roger

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: May 28, 2008

    In 2006 Traci Tullius had an installation at Soap Factory that cobbled together 50 pieces of footage from years of her work. It included a gag-inducing scene of Tullius wolfing...

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    Trama

    By Nate Patrin

    Published: May 28, 2008

    There're three significant reasons why it's amazing that Trama's new mixtape Barack Otrama has the Twin Cities' best unsigned MC spitting a couple of verses over BDP's "The...

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    Electric Eyes Festival

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: May 28, 2008

    The Electric Eyes Festival, a quirky, two-weekend event, will celebrate what is perhaps the most experimental of music genres, termed simply as "electronic." Not to be confused...

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    Real Women Have Curves

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: May 28, 2008

    The St. Paul-based Teatro del Pueblo has been around since 1992, but Real Women Have Curves represents the first step in the theater's vision of stepping up from a small-scale...

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    Paul Renz

    By Rick Mason

    Published: May 28, 2008

    For his sixth album, Rebop (Gabwalk), local jazz guitarist, composer, and educator Paul Renz recruited his former Berklee classmate Anders Bostrom, whose sly, insinuating flute...

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    Nels Cline Singers

    By Rick Mason

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Most widely known as Wilco's lead guitarist, Nels Cline leads a double life as an avant-garde guitar monster who breeds ceaselessly inventive music that wanders among jazz,...

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    Grand Archives

    By Desiree Weber

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Maybe you missed Grand Archives' show-stealing set at the Entry in March. Forgivable. And maybe, while you dig Band of Horses plenty, you've never checked out the prior band...

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    Royalty, Etc. Triple Release

    By Jen Paulson

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Your Friday-night buck gets stretched out well tonight. Royalty, Etc. Records is throwing a big old party to promote the release of not one, but three albums from their...

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    American Poetry Slam Idol

    By Ward Rubrecht

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Tucked under the surface of downtown St. Paul like a speakeasy, the Artists' Quarter is more than a great bar and jazz club. It's also home to some of the most skilled and...

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    Techno Textiles

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Science is shouting loud and clear: Textiles are the new black. They are in a unique position to advance space travel, building construction and interior design, and clothing....

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    Talk of the Stacks: Tim Weiner: 'A Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA'

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: May 28, 2008

    If you have ever trusted U.S. government intelligence, read journalist Tim Weiner's A Legacy of Ashes. The New York Times national security reporter's comprehensive history of...