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ON THE EVENING OF SEPTEMBER 24, ABOUT 500 PEOPLE squeezed into the lecture hall at the Tate Laboratory of Physics on the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus. There...
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Leading up to the city elections held earlier this month, the battles between old-guard DFLers and the so-called reform faction on the Minneapolis Park Board often grew so...
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Man and dog on the Mississippi
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Larry McDonough appreciates a good ambush. He knows that you and everyone else regard the tear-jerking pathos that opens "Amazing Grace" simply as a foil for the upcoming...
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Big & Rich
Comin' to Your City
Warner Bros.
1) Big & Rich have a really good steel-guitar player in the band, and a utility guy who plays fiddle and banjo and...
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Various Artists
Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937
Old Hat
Everybody loves a jingle. Well, maybe not, but try getting the damn things out of...
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The word "Chooglin'" sounds like an onomatopoeia for beer guzzling or trains chugging. It's actually a Creedence Clearwater Revival term for partying and fornicating, as laid...
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Lucia's Bakery and Take Home
1428 W. 31st St., Minneapolis
612.825.9800
www.lucias.com
Heartland
1806 St. Clair Ave., St....
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He was born Peter Holm in 1942 in Richfield, but he now calls himself "timeless" Mad Peeaire, citizen of the universe. He took his first philosophy course in 1960, at...
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Am I out of bounds if I try to have a dialogue with my nephew about masturbation? He's 17 years old and I'm 52. I'm also a balanced bisexual male in a good marriage. I...
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The English word "silly" comes from the German "selig," meaning holy, blissful. In accordance with your current astrological omens, I invite you to...
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Even Beck knows that blackness is no longer the wellspring of white hipster cred: Fetishism leads quickly to objectification and eroticization; before you know it, you've...
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Stephen Sondheim, hero and mentor to Rent composer Jonathan Larson, called his pupil's music "generous." Now there's an elusive compliment. One can almost imagine the sly...
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Last spring, The Mommy-Track Mysteries author Ayelet Waldman sat on the Fitzgerald Theater stage at one of Garrison Keillor's "Literary Friendships" talks. Her husband,...
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When the levees broke and swamped New Orleans, Interact Theater had begun its first read-through of Live at the Funky Butt Jazz Club, the company's new musical about the...
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Edwin Strout's one-act play (an expanded version of a show that debuted at the 2003 Fringe Festival) traces the decades-long friendship between poet, critic, and noted wit...
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Until recently, my relationship with television was solely voyeuristic. I could be an objective judge of TV content, panning Wife Swap or pooh-poohing According to Jim...
