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BEFORE IT HAPPENED, Holly Zschokke had never heard of Minnesota's Office of Crime Victims Ombudsman. But in February 1998 Zschokke's daughter, then 14 years old, was sexually...
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"Please stay on the phone for an important message from Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life." Potential voters across the state have been hearing this recorded greeting in...
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MINNETONKA, May 15, 2004--Pres. George Bush, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman joined more than 500 Minnesota business leaders and Target patrons yesterday...
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Note to emo boys: Radio 4 hate you. Hate that personal, confessional zine you print on earth-friendly paper made from recycled copies of The Teenage Liberation Handbook. Hate...
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Critics are fond of calling music "revolutionary." That proposition at least made inadvertent sense back in the days of the LP, when records did, if nothing else, spin in...
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"I'm a drummer! I want rhythm!"
I'm sitting in my building's laundry room with Huntley Miller and JT Bates (a.k.a. Grid), and Bates is lamenting the occasional randomness of...
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Pretty Girls Make Graves
Good Health
Lookout Records
I don't much care for the "indie" bands that have garnered most of the critical praise over the past couple of years:...
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High on Fire
Surrounded by Thieves
Relapse
One need only look at High on Fire's stage setup--a bass drum the size of a small Clydesdale, multiple full-stack...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
In the Beginning There Was Rhythm
Soul Jazz Records
A Certain Ratio
Early
Soul Jazz Records
When 1977 slash-and-burn punk rock flamed out, a...
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Dan Israel
Cedar Lake
Persistent Records
Sad lyrics don't necessarily make sad songs. (The best example might be Kylie Minogue's "I Should Be So Lucky": Just when you...
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Many, many years ago (back when you could smoke in restaurants), my grandmother gave us "sugar-butter bread" (white bread slathered with butter and sprinkled with sugar) for...
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Chuck Chism is angry. The burly, bearded, white-haired 57-year-old is stewing at a conference table in Mounds View City Hall. The room is packed with more than 40 city...
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In the days following last month's abrupt and short-lived ouster of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, there were widespread accusations that the U.S. had provided assistance...
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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
Everything Is Illuminated
Houghton Mifflin
Everything Is Illuminated is, to be honest, the kind of publishing event a great many readers will hate on...
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Jamie O'Neill
At Swim, Two Boys
Scribner
All young Jimmy Mack wants--at least at first--is to trade his breeches for a pair of long pants so that the boys at school...
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Most important information first: The West Indian-accented hysteric Jar Jar Binks of Phantom Menace appears for a cosmic blink of the eye in what I stubbornly continue to view...
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There's one sequence in the excellent new caper film Nine Queens that helps to explain the movie's immense popularity in its native Argentina. The two main characters,...
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Gone in 60 Seconds? Try Not Going Anywhere for Three Days. "This car can't be stolen," announces a Peruvian cabdriver near the beginning of Heddy Honigmann's 1993 documentary...
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Well, just when I had promised myself I would never use the phrase "sitcom humor" in a review again, the Mixed Blood Theatre produces a play that explicitly mocks the...
