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US Air Guitar Championships: Minnesota Regional
By Jen Paulson
Published: June 11, 2008
At any given point, most of us have done it, whether in private, in moments of jovial intoxication, or even right out in front of a competition crowd. Ever since there was a...
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Dethklok
By Cecile Cloutier
Published: June 11, 2008
Sometimes the cream does rise to the top. Dethklok, the unsympathetic and hilarious protagonists of Cartoon Network's series Metalpocalypse, managed something that no...
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Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
By Ben Palosaari
Published: June 11, 2008
There is only one thing you need to know about the traveling exhibit "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination": There will be a real, functional hovercraft, and visitors can...
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Shibori Cut Loose
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: June 11, 2008
Shibori is the Japanese word for a type of resist fabric-dying process that utilizes binding, tying, pleating, hooking, stitching, and even pole-binding in order to create...
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SOLD OUT: Billy Bragg
By Rick Mason
Published: June 11, 2008
Mr. Love & Justice (Anti-), Billy Bragg's latest album, could have just as easily been called Mr. Mellow and Sensitive. Renowned for his scorching political diatribes and...
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Tig Notaro
By P.F. Wilson
Published: June 11, 2008
Tig Notaro thought she wanted to be in the music business, so much so that she left her home in Texas and headed to L.A. She increasingly found herself hanging out in comedy...
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Anaya Dance Theatre: Daak: Call to Action
By Caroline Palmer
Published: June 11, 2008
The subject of land rights is emotionally charged, steeped in history defined by conquest, corruption, and colonialism. In this second work of a three-year-long trilogy...
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David Sedaris
By Rhena Tantisunthorn
Published: June 11, 2008
David Sedaris is back with another collection of essays full of self-deprecation, unexpected and apt comparisons, family high jinks, and the charming sentimentality that has...
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Talking Volumes with Judy Blume
By Rhena Tantisunthorn
Published: June 11, 2008
I had my Judy Blume moment in fifth grade. Jennifer Talbot was giving her oral book report on Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, and part of her presentation involved a...
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Spotlight
Theater Spotlight: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
By Quinton Skinner
Published: June 11, 2008
Steven Dietz's Sherlock Holmes adaptation opens with the news that the super-sleuth is dead, then spools back in time to a point at which Holmes (Steve Hendrickson) summons...
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Feature
Haley Bonar lets the sun shine in
Our summer girl is set up to be a Big Star
By Andrea Swensson
Published: June 11, 2008
It's summertime, and Haley Bonar is coming out to play. After a long, cold winter, Midwesterners are reveling in the chance to finally frolic in the lilac-scented breeze of a...
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Feature
Summer Grows Up
For once, this season's movies don't ask you to check your brains at the door
By Chuck Wilson
Published: June 11, 2008
Explosions, pratfalls, and robots; heroes, aliens, and blondes—it must be summertime at the movies. Beyond the flash, though, it's striking to note how many movies will...
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Feature
An Endless Summer of Cinema
The season's best film festivals and events
Published: June 11, 2008
MIDNIGHT MADNESS The Uptown Theatre continues its long-running series of cult film classics every Saturday at midnight. June 14 Dazed and Confused June 21 American...
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News
Domestic Abuse Service Center faces deep cuts
A vital service for domestic violence survivors sees its budget gutted
By Jeff Severns Guntzel
Published: June 11, 2008
When Hennepin County opened the Domestic Abuse Service Center in 1994, it was a pioneering attempt to create a one-stop shop for victims of emotional, physical, or sexual...
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News
Pawlenty flip-flops on Cuba just in time to cozy up to McCain
Is Gov. Tim Pawlenty's change of heart politically motivated?
By Matt Snyders
Published: June 11, 2008
When Ralph Kaehler made his 15th trip to Cuba this spring, he grew more convinced than ever that the U.S.'s trade policy toward the island nation needed revamping. Part of a...
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Blotter
Obama beat Hillary, but can't top Shania Twain
Tip for the candidate: be a hot country singer
Published: June 11, 2008
The big Obama rally last week drew in 19,500 folks to the Xcel Energy Center. While that's a huge number, it's still well shy of the record set by the goddess of country pop,...
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to "The GOPFathers"
Published: June 11, 2008
Happy GOPFather's Day I found your article interesting and thought-provoking, but not in the manner you, no doubt, intended ("The GOPFathers," 5/28/08). Your obvious attempt...
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Music
Electric Fetus: Still relevant after 40 years
The store reveals its secrets of vitality
By Amber Schadewald
Published: June 11, 2008
Woodstock, skin-tight bell bottoms, braless summers, and Janis Joplin; sometimes it's hard not to be jealous of those who hit their prime during the '60s and '70s. But learning...
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Music
Canadian Pride
Constantines release new album, tour in the name of Canuck-flavored indie rock
By Jonathan Garrett
Published: June 11, 2008
Not too long ago, being Canadian was more of a liability than a selling point for a band. Constantines guitarist and backing vocalist Steve Lambke remembers those days well....
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CD Review
Dirtbombs: We Have You Surrounded
By Cecile Cloutier
Published: June 11, 2008
We Have You Surrounded, the latest from Detroit's Dirtbombs, is the angry punch line to a joke popular in 1980s Lower Michigan: "Will the last person to leave Detroit please...
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