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Jennifer O'Connor
By Ray Cummings
Published: July 16, 2008
If NYC singer/songwriter Jennifer O'Connor has a fault, it's her too-frequent tendency to melodically and lyrically stalk whatever feeling she seeks to explore in song. Once or...
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ArtCar: Cruise and Drive-In Movie
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: July 16, 2008
Even though there is no scheduled, large-scale Art Car Parade this year, that doesn't mean that the local Art Cars aren't cruising around this summer. It's probably for the...
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Jay Reatard
By Jen Paulson
Published: July 16, 2008
Jay Lindsey has been making a scene as Jay Reatard for almost 10 years now, and after 2006's Blood Visions he made a big impression. After starting as a solo artist at the...
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No Age
By Ray Cummings
Published: July 16, 2008
Everything about L.A. twosome No Age screams community-mindedness and inclusiveness somehow: the noise-meets-hardcore-meets-shoegaze sound, the all-ages-venue they operate (the...
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Twin Cities Pond and Landscape Tour
Published: July 16, 2008
I have to admit, whenever landscaping comes up at a party, I completely zone out. I just can't be enthusiastic about tree placement and sprinkler systems. Of course, that...
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East Harriet Rose Fest
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: July 16, 2008
This festival, held each year at the Lyndale Farmstead Park, has less to do with competitive rose and flower shows (as the name might imply), and more to do with fun, family...
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Minneapolis Aquatennial
By Ben Palosaari
Published: July 16, 2008
In its 68 years, the Minneapolis Aquatennial has seen some strange things, and hosted some pretty big names. Perhaps the best event that overlapped into both of these...
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Fleet Foxes
By Jonathan Garrett
Published: July 16, 2008
Over the past several years, Sub Pop has become quite the animal collective: first Wolf Parade, then Band of Horses, now Fleet Foxes. The sunny, bucolic pop of the Foxes,...
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STNNNG
By Jessica Chapman
Published: July 16, 2008
STNNNG is the type of band you get a fake ID and sneak away from your rural confines to go see in the big city. Remember the Jesus Lizard? Cows? Like that. These are the types...
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Neil Diamond
By Jen Paulson
Published: July 16, 2008
Just so you know, a Neil Diamond show isn't only for the ladies. Neil, my friends, is universal. The man is a legend; the scope of his contributions to pop music is decades...
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Ween
By Jen Paulson
Published: July 16, 2008
Ween, being the true musical geniuses they are, have something for everyone: the seemingly serious songs, the whacked-out crazy tracks, and those songs that seem to conform to...
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News
Brazil: The future of biofuel in Minnesota?
Ethanol may be king in these energy-strapped times
By Conrad Wilson
Published: July 16, 2008
On a recent drive from his farm in Blue Earth County to St. Paul, Kevin Paap passed eight filling stations with an E85 fuel pump. Just two years ago, less than half of those...
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Music
Links to the past
Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm are almost unbelievably devoted to the blues
By Ben Westhoff
Published: July 16, 2008
Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm seemingly personify the Platonic ideals of the Delta blues. Burnside explains that he was raised alongside "eight or nine" other children...
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À la carte
Where every bloke knows your name
Merlin's Rest is everything you want in a British pub
By James Norton
Published: July 16, 2008
If libraries are where esoteric knowledge goes to quietly retire, Merlin's Rest is just the opposite: It's where obscure trivia grabs a black and tan and chats up the brunette...
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Highlight
Film Highlight: Mamma Mia!
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 16, 2008
Sure, it's nice that the actors sing their own numbers—Meryl Streep has a fab set of pipes, and the fact that Pierce Brosnan sings like a bullfrog in heat is used to...
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Spotlight
Theater Spotlight: Autobahn
By Quinton Skinner
Published: July 16, 2008
Seeing as how we, as a species, appear to be furiously evolving toward a life of sitting on padded seats and hurling ourselves through space in motorized missiles, it makes...
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to "Your Friendly Neighborhood War Profiteer"
Published: July 16, 2008
War, what is it good for? Once again, City Pages has scooped the corporate media and even the peacenik media with its excellent July 2 story, "Your Friendly Neighborhood...
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CD Review
The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
By Jen Paulson
Published: July 16, 2008
If albums are educational metaphors, Almost Killed Me was junior high, Separation Sunday was high school, and Boys and Girls in America was definitely college. Stay Positive...
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5ingles
The songs we can't escape
By Ray Cummings
Published: July 16, 2008
CLIPSE"Fast Life"So it's official: This hyper-articulate Virginia crack-rap duo can flow sick over non-Neptunes beats—though it must be said that Scott Storch's...
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Culture Jamming
A portable Guitar Hero tops this week's pop culture picks
By Michael Gallucci
Published: July 16, 2008
TOP PICK – Guitar Hero: On Tour (Activision)This video game for the Nintendo DS makes it easy for us to get our Slash on practically anywhere. Like the original Guitar...
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