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21. A-List

    Russia's Grizzly Coast

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: June 4, 2008

    This week the Minnesota Zoo is set to open its latest permanent exhibition, Russia's Grizzly Coast. Built to emulate the far northeastern coast of Russia, the habitat will be...

22. A-List

    Mercurial Rage

    By Pat O'Brien

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses is old enough to be legally served a drink this year, but as it and many of its counterparts age, they seem to influence more and more...

23. A-List

    A Night in the Box

    By Jen Paulson

    Published: June 4, 2008

    With A Night in the Box's second Afternoon Records release, Write a Letter, it seems they are taking their blues-charged, searing-rock side even further, alongside their...

24. A-List

    A Night in the Box

    By Jen Paulson

    Published: June 4, 2008

    With A Night in the Box's second Afternoon Records release, Write a Letter, it seems they are taking their blues-charged, searing-rock side even further, alongside their...

25. A-List

    Great River Energy Bicycle Festival: MN Fixed Gear Classic

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Velodrome bicycle racing is often colloquially referred to as "NASCAR on two wheels." When riders crash though, it tends to resemble more a demolition derby. The sport has...

26. A-List

    Stephen Evans

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: June 4, 2008

    When author, singer, former Texas gubernatorial candidate, and otherwise eccentric Kinky Friedman has the dominant quote on a book cover, you can pretty much bet the story will...

27. A-List

    Denis P. Gardner

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: June 4, 2008

    With his big, glossy, black-and-white photo book, Wood, Concrete, Stone, and Steel, historian Denis P. Gardner documents the impressive history of bridges in Minnesota's...

28. A-List

    Ellen Hawley

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: June 4, 2008

    New Yorker Annette Majoris (nee Annie Minor) longs for her own midday television show. When she finds herself trying to fill the Minnesota (whose natives she often compares to...

29. A-List

    Famous Dave's BBQ & Blues Fest

    By Rick Mason

    Published: June 4, 2008

    The smokin' rib joint's free, fourth annual blues extravaganza in the heart of downtown Minneapolis again promises to be one of the best bargains of the year. The 2008 version...

30. A-List

    Dance Band

    By Rod Smith

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Dance Band stand pretty much unchallenged as Minnesota's foremost incitement to party, and for good reason. A bunch, actually, including the quintet's polyrhythm-enriched...

31. A-List

    Feufollet

    By Rick Mason

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Their name loosely translates as "crazy fire" and refers to the conflagrations that sometimes break out in the swamps of their native southwest Louisiana. It also applies to...

32. A-List

    Mary Mack

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: June 4, 2008

    "I have two degrees in music," says Mary Mack. "So that's why I do comedy. My bachelor's is in music performance with clarinet, and my master's is in conducting." For a time,...

33. A-List

    True Colors Tour

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Most politicians are fairly spineless; they'd rather blow off the unique concerns of their gay, lesbian, and transgender constituencies than risk alienating their...

34. A-List

    Wolf Eyes

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: June 4, 2008

    In what seems like the blink of a bloodshot eye, Michigan's Wolf Eyes have morphed from a trio of tone-wrangling freaks into noise rock's Grateful Dead, issuing an incessant...

35. Music

    R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills: Still crazy after all these years

    The legendary band's co-songwriter chats about their upcoming show

    By David Brusie

    Published: June 4, 2008

    The songs on R.E.M.'s new album, Accelerate, are the loudest and fastest the band has recorded since the mid-1980s, when their unique sound was ruling college campuses. The...

36. À la carte

    More Maria, Less Luigi

    Dining at the schizophrenic Totino's Italian Kitchen

    By James Norton

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Totino's Italian Kitchen—open since 1951 in general, and for the last couple of months in its new Mounds View location—is the kind of place that can start a fight...

37. Free Will Astrology

    Free Will Astrology

    By Rob Brezsny

    Published: June 4, 2008

    ARIES (March 21-April 19): Since authoring the book Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success, Penelope Trunk has written a blog that offers further advice. Recently she...

38. Highlight

    Film Highlight: Roman de Gare

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman may be one of the silliest love songs in the canon of French fluff, but 42 years on, it gets a beguiling makeover in this new soufflé...

39. Spotlight

    Theater Spotlight: The Gin Game

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: June 4, 2008

    Proving that satisfying drama can emerge from unlikely settings, D.L. Coburn's The Gin Game takes place entirely on a sun porch attached to a dead-end home for the elderly....

40. CD Review

    French Kicks: Swimming

    By Erik E. Martz

    Published: June 4, 2008

    The sound of French Kicks isn't one that comes easy, precisely because it barely comes at all. Compared with the post-punk thrashing of fellow New York scenesters the Strokes,...