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1. Features

   Lawyer makes dirty debt collectors pay

   The Avenger: Pete Barry goes after those "who live off the misery of others"

   By Jonathan Kaminsky

   Published: June 4, 2008

   We are a nation in debt and the bill has come due. The average American consumer has four credit cards, owes nearly $10,000 in non-mortgage debt, and can no longer rely on his...

2. News

   Find Dining

   For freegans, dinner is served à la Dumpster

   By Amy Lieberman

   Published: June 4, 2008

   The grocery store's parking lot is always busy, but at noon, the atmosphere is especially anxious. Hurried mothers clutching toddlers' hands load groceries into SUVs. So when...

3. Blotter

   Should students stand for Pledge of Allegiance?

   A school board in western Minnesota is split

   Published: June 4, 2008

   A school board in western Minnesota is still torn as to whether students should be forced to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Officials at Glyndon's Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton...

4. Letters to the Editor

   Readers respond to "Moles Wanted"

   Published: June 4, 2008

   No need for RNC molesI do not want to make it difficult for the FBI, local police, or anyone who cares to find out what is going to happen when the RNC rolls into town ("Moles...

5. Music

   Pop Fiction

   Humble and determined, Chris Koza prepares to release a new collection of stories wrapped up in songs

   By Bob Longmore

   Published: June 4, 2008

   As with any musician, Chris Koza's goal is to get his music into the heads of as many people as possible. By not being afraid to take his band out on tour and by consistently...

6. Dish

   Go Get Sauced

   The upscale North Side restaurant shows how the neighborhood is changing

   By Rachel Hutton

   Published: June 4, 2008

   Not once but twice I tried to go to Sauced during its regular hours and found the restaurant closed. The first time, on a Sunday evening, the parking lot was empty and the neon...

7. Savage Love

   Savage Love

   By Dan Savage

   Published: June 4, 2008

   I'm a 23-year-old guy and I have been dating my 21-year-old girlfriend for about two years. We did the long-distance thing for a year, and after she graduated she moved from...

8. Movies

   Sandler's Zohan has crazed good-heartedness

   Adam Sandler plays an Israeli commando turned stylist

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: June 4, 2008

   Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsize codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad super-heavy: catching barbecued fish in his butt crack on a Tel Aviv beach,...

9. Theater

   Bulrusher is an everyday epic

   The odd tale deftly weaves the mythic and the mundane

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: June 4, 2008

   The mythic and the humdrum routinely do their funky little jig, the cosmic and the commonplace woven together until, at certain moments, it's damned hard to tell them apart....

10. A-List

    Vincent Laforet

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: June 4, 2008

    A commercial and editorial photographer based in New York City, Vincent Laforet is one of the more original contemporary photographers working. His body of work is impressive...

11. A-List

    The Mad Ripple Friday Night Hootenanny

    By Andrea Swensson

    Published: June 4, 2008

    As anyone who has descended the back stairs of Java Jack's coffee shop on a Friday night can tell you, the Mad Ripple Hootenanny is a one-of-a-kind experience. Led by music...

12. A-List

    Back to Back Theatre: Small Metal Objects

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Australia's Back to Back Theatre challenges notions of public art on several levels. The ensemble's "Small Metal Objects" has been performed in public spaces throughout the...

13. A-List

    10-Minute Play Festival

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Brevity, in the right context, can be bliss, a point not lost on Lakeshore Players. Their fourth annual 10-Minute Play Festival is the result of soliciting original,...

14. A-List

    City on the Make

    By Pat O'Brien

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Ever wonder what a really good blues record would sound like if it were assaulted with a tire iron and had acid splashed in its eyes? Right, not many people ever think about...

15. A-List

    HowWastheShow.com 6th Anniversary

    By Andrea Swensson

    Published: June 4, 2008

    I have a pretty clear bias as far as HowWasTheShow.com is concerned—I spent two years feverishly penning live reviews for the site and worked as editor there before...

16. A-List

    Yellow Swans

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Portland, Oregon, noise duo Yellow Swans—Pete Swanson and Gabriel Mindel Saloman—drew from a many-splendored sound palette. Radioactive, lopsided electronic loops?...

17. A-List

    MOSAIC Opening Night Celebration

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Taking a look at the three-month schedule for Minneapolis MOSAIC boggles the mind. Filled with dozens of gallery shows, dance performances, theater, and live music, it's a...

18. A-List

    Rabih Alameddine

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Rabih Alameddine's latest novel, The Hakawati, features protagonist Osama al-Kharrat, a man who returns to his native Beirut after living in Los Angles for many years. His...

19. A-List

    National Conference for Media Reform

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Ask the people at nonpartisan, nonprofit Free Press, and they'll tell you: The media revolution has begun. The organization's mission is to root out corrupt media, and advocate...

20. A-List

    Patio Nights: Awesome Snakes; the Vignettes; the Talkers

    By Jen Paulson

    Published: June 4, 2008

    With summer upon us, seasonal events like the Minnesota Museum of American Art's weekly Patio Nights kick off the season of warm nights spent outside listening to your favorite...