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A-List
Bill Frisell
By Rick Mason
Published: June 18, 2008
On a totally fascinating and apparently endless quest to map out the misty junctions where dozens of musical styles intertwine, innovative guitarist Bill Frisell seems to be...
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Matthew Ryan
By Rick Mason
Published: June 18, 2008
Ryan Webb grew up in the hard, working-class neighborhoods of Chester, Pennsylvania, escaping with dreams of rock 'n' roll. An older brother wasn't so lucky, eventually being...
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Juneteenth Festival
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: June 18, 2008
Observed in 26 states around the country, Juneteenth, or Emancipation Day, commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas. This Saturday, Minnesota...
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Grand Celebration Powwow
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: June 18, 2008
In one of the largest powwows in the area, for three days hundreds of Native American dancers of all ages will dance in a variety of styles, some performed in full-out...
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N.M. Kelby
By Rhena Tantisunthorn
Published: June 18, 2008
In a presidential election year, reading a novel set in a Florida retirement community, or anywhere in Florida for that matter, might be the last thing I want to spend my...
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Henry Butler
By Rick Mason
Published: June 18, 2008
Spectacularly talented pianist Henry Butler fits right in with the elite of the great New Orleans piano tradition, which is suitably reflected on his new PiaNOLA Live (Basin...
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The Cotton Jones Basket Ride
By Ray Cummings
Published: June 18, 2008
Over three albums and a clutch of EPs, Cumberland, Maryland's Page France established themselves as earnest-enough purveyors of riddling Christian indie-pop slightly...
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New Riders of the Purple Sage
By Rick Mason
Published: June 18, 2008
The cosmic cowboy New Riders began in 1969 as a side project for Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia to try his hand on pedal steel; the name copped from Zane Grey's classic...
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Minnesota Lynx vs. New York
By Ben Palosaari
Published: June 18, 2008
Unfortunately for WNBA fans, all of basketballdom is still dry-heaving from a Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant hangover. While everybody is still busy waiting for Magic Johnson to...
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Minnesota Lynx vs. Houston
By Ben Palosaari
Published: June 18, 2008
Unfortunately for WNBA fans, all of basketballdom is still dry-heaving from a Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant hangover. While everybody is still busy waiting for Magic Johnson to...
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Return for Forever
By Rick Mason
Published: June 18, 2008
Or maybe from forever, since it's been a good quarter century since the core RTF quartet played together, and even longer since the group's halcyon days in the 1970s....
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Eddie Gossling
By P.F. Wilson
Published: June 18, 2008
Born in New York and raised in the military, comic Eddie Gossling didn't have to leave a promising career to pursue standup. "I was working at a gas station," he recalls. "And...
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News
"So my boyfriend and I went speed dating..."
Our intrepid reporter enters the modern world of attention deficit dates
By Beth Walton
Published: June 18, 2008
Last Wednesday I called my boyfriend and asked if I could go speed dating. "It's for work," I pleaded. "I'm going to go undercover. PUH-leeeze.""Um," he said."It will be fun....
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Spotlight
Theater: The Secret Fall Of Constance Wilde
By Quinton Skinner
Published: June 18, 2008
Director Marcela Lorca's production of Thomas Kilroy's The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde doesn't lack style. Murky ambient music piped into the Guthrie's proscenium stage...
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Blotter
Party Like Mock Stars
A gang of cleaning-supply salesmen make a mess at a local hotel
Published: June 18, 2008
They got drunk and puffed in nonsmoking rooms, punched holes in the walls, ripped off the toilet paper holder, and pulled out window screens.Was it Stone Temple Pilots? No, a...
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to "The Avenger"
Published: June 18, 2008
Sympathy for the debt collector We were disappointed to read the implication that debt collection is overrun with unethical debt collectors hatching evil schemes during...
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Gimme Noise
The Air Guitar Championships: invisible instruments, real rock
The essence of airness is captured at the Minneapolis regional
By Andrea Swensson
Published: June 18, 2008
What is "airness," and how does one know when "airness" has been achieved? This question, along with many others, was bouncing around my head Friday night as I headed to the...
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Music
Unicorn Basement shed rays of light
The underground electro scene's innovators shine
By David Hansen
Published: June 18, 2008
It is well past midnight and the house is bursting with music. At an upright piano in the living room, a housemate pounds out a few bars of Water Music, surrounded by cassette...
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CD Review
DJ Scotch Egg: Drumized
By Ray Cummings
Published: June 18, 2008
When the Nintendo Gameboy arrived on U.S. shores in 1989, American teens and preteens alike gladly accepted another technological tool (the other such weapon being the Sony...
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5ingles
The Songs We Can't Escape
By Ray Cummings
Published: June 18, 2008
BUN-B"Get Cha Issue" UGK's sole surviving member reminds us, pointedly and methodically, to question authority—"authority" including police officers and...
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