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1. Feature

   A new wave of gay seminarians prepares to take the pulpit

   The Lutheran church struggles with its policy on homosexuality and the meaning of "all God's children"

   By Bradley Campbell

   Published: July 16, 2008

   It was late November in 2004 and Lauren Wendt was on her way to a Wednesday-evening church service. As she walked up the concrete steps and entered through the white doors of...

2. Gimme Noise

   Adam Svec searches for the music inside

   The Glad Version songwriter's new solo album is stripped-down and personal

   By Andrea Swensson

   Published: July 16, 2008

   The French impressionist composer Claude Debussy once wrote about music: "There is no theory. You only have to listen. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless...

3. Dish

   Grand Cafe gives new life to neighborhood eatery

   It's the kind of place everyone wants to have within walking distance

   By Rachel Hutton

   Published: July 16, 2008

   At the Grand Cafe in south Minneapolis, a reminder of the space's previous occupants sits squarely in the center of the room, its broad, white girth exerting its presence from...

4. Movies

   Batman returns in disturbing but dazzling blockbuster

   Heath Ledger's final role is as foil to the Dark Knight

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: July 16, 2008

   What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City—if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so deeply and sometimes despairingly...

5. Theater

   Guthrie's Government Inspector a first-rate farce

   The production pillories bureaucratic incompetence

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: July 16, 2008

   As someone who once logged a certain amount of deeply satisfying and restorative R.E.M. sleep in the back seat of a state-owned car (yes, on the clock), I can lay claim to...

6. A-List

   Playlabs 2008

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: July 16, 2008

   This week's public reading series at the Playwrights' Center is the 26th annual festival pursuing the particular mad scientist's alchemy of new work (where do we go, in other...

7. A-List

   Maria Bamford

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: July 16, 2008

   Duluth-born comedian Maria Bamford's quirky impressions and imaginary dialogue have made her a hit with festival audiences and critics. Now she returns to her home state with a...

8. A-List

   Health

   By David Hansen

   Published: July 16, 2008

   As evidenced by the national success of Crystal Castles and the local dominance of Skoal Kodiak, the club kids want noise and the noise kids want to dance. Los Angeles-based...

9. A-List

   Terrance Simien

   By Rick Mason

   Published: July 16, 2008

   Tireless global ambassador for (in rough order) zydeco, bayou Creole culture, Louisiana, rootsy Americana, world roots music, and the proverbial melting pot, Terrance Simien is...

10. A-List

    Momentum: New Dance Works

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Each July the Walker Art Center features four emerging choreographers in a two-week celebration of new work from a fresh perspective. Chris Schlicting's "love things" is filled...

11. A-List

    Drinking with Ian

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: July 16, 2008

    In past years we've seen Drinking with Ian on the Drunken Bike Bar Crawl, a Northeast pub crawl featuring 13 bars in 7 hours, on bikes. We've seen TV bartender Ollie Stench...

12. A-List

    Kevin Mahogany Sings Big Joe Turner

    By Rick Mason

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant A big man with a big voice and a huge talent, Joe Turner reigned in Kansas City in the 1930s, when the torrid scene was melting together swing,...

13. A-List

    Hot Club of Cowtown

    By Rick Mason

    Published: July 16, 2008

    After a couple of years off to mend the fences on the back 40, or something, the original Hot Club of Cowtown trio is back with its ferociously swinging sagebrush versions of...

14. A-List

    Fallout Art Fest

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Free food, community involvement, a film festival, and drum demonstrations by Devon Evans, a former member of Bob Marley and the Wailers—what else could you ask for in a...

15. A-List

    The Eclectic Edge Ensemble: A Woman's Choice

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Jazz dance is a hybrid that incorporates everything from Broadway rhythms to balletic maneuvers to funky moves from street and vernacular forms. In "A Woman's Choice," the...

16. A-List

    Mignon Fogerty

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: July 16, 2008

    It's a noun! It's an adverb! It's Grammar Girl! Author Mignon Fogarty created the fictional Grammar Girl as a nonjudgmental, kind superhero for those of us who...

17. A-List

    The BIG Slam

    By Ward Rubrecht

    Published: July 16, 2008

    The Twin Cities are home to two active and excellent monthly poetry slams: SlamMN! at Kieran's Irish Pub in Minneapolis and Soap Boxing at the Artists' Quarter in St. Paul. But...

18. A-List

    Chris Rock

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: July 16, 2008

    "There's a civil war going on with black people, and there's two sides. There's black people and there's niggers. And niggers have got to go. Niggers are breaking into your...

19. A-List

    Apples in Stereo

    By David Hansen

    Published: July 16, 2008

    In our collective consciousness, the Elephant Six collective towers like a brilliantly ornamented obelisk. From that vaunted co-op came the most luminary music of the '90s, and...

20. A-List

    The Watson Twins

    By Rick Mason

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Chandra and Leigh Watson, genuine twins originally from Louisville, initially leapt to attention via Rabbit Fur Coat, their 2006 collaboration with Rilo Kiley singer Jenny...