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Doomtree CD-Release Show
By Amber Schadewald
Published: July 30, 2008
With its snarly teeth and torn wings, the Doomtree logo isn't supposed to make you feel pretty, and neither is their music. Making straightforward, conscious hip hop, the group...
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The Ting Tings
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: July 30, 2008
According to lead singer, guitarist, and drum bassist Katie White, ting ting is Mandarin for "band stand" (Ting Ting was also the name of her Chinese co-worker). Growing up in...
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Powderhorn Art Fair
By Ben Palosaari
Published: July 30, 2008
If you're an artist or art lover in the Twin Cities, this weekend is going to be a 72-hour art orgy. Three Minneapolis neighborhoods will host art festivals showcasing hundreds...
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Jazz at the Movies: Terence Blanchard Quintet
By Rick Mason
Published: July 30, 2008
Jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator Terence Blanchard is well acquainted with film scores, having written in the neighborhood of 50, including strong, stand-alone work for...
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Loring Park Art Festival
By Ben Palosaari
Published: July 30, 2008
If you're an artist or art lover in the Twin Cities, this weekend is going to be a 72-hour art orgy. Three Minneapolis neighborhoods will host art festivals showcasing hundreds...
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Uptown Art Fair
By Ben Palosaari
Published: July 30, 2008
If you're an artist or art lover in the Twin Cities, this weekend is going to be a 72-hour art orgy. Three Minneapolis neighborhoods will host art festivals showcasing hundreds...
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Fringe Festival
By Jackie Varriano
Published: July 30, 2008
Generally speaking, numbers and spontaneity don't usually go hand in hand. However, in a city that is second only to New York in live theater per capita, the very thought of...
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Nine Inch Nails
By Chris DeLine
Published: July 30, 2008
Doctor's orders prevented Trent Reznor from taking the stage to play in Minneapolis this past summer, but Nine Inch Nails will attempt to make good as they return to the Target...
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The Erotic Slam
By Ward Rubrecht
Published: July 30, 2008
Slam poets can sometimes be a bit too frank about their sex lives, with details of past encounters painted in aching detail across the canvas of public performance. But if...
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Chaka Khan
By Nate Patrin
Published: July 30, 2008
Sure, mention Chaka Khan to most casual and/or younger music fans and her 1984 smash hit "I Feel for You" will come up within roughly 10 seconds—maybe less if you're...
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Judas Priest
By Jen Paulson
Published: July 30, 2008
Metal was never the same in terms of fashion or music once Rob Halford and his Priest hit the scene in their iconic leather fetish gear. Almost 30 years later, the question of...
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Los Lobos and Los Lonely Boys
By Rick Mason
Published: July 30, 2008
Dubbed the Brotherhood Tour, this great double bill pairs Los Lobos, who have spent the last few decades evolving from just another band from East L.A. into one of the planet's...
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News
Starbucks baristas union drive comes at key time
The effort to organize local latte-slingers could hurt the ailing chain
By Matt Snyders
Published: July 30, 2008
It was a typical, busy Thursday afternoon at the Mall of America's first-floor Starbucks, and Erik Forman was four hours into his shift. The slight, 23-year-old barista was...
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Music
Brazil's CSS get heavy on their sophomore album
The electro pop band rocks it up the second time around
By Jonathan Garrett
Published: July 30, 2008
Life may not always imitate art, but it's a lot more fun when it does. Just ask Cansei de Ser Sexy (a.k.a. CSS). When the Brazil-based band wrote and recorded "Meeting Paris...
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East Meets Midwest
At humble Azuki, the sushi is so good you'll swear there's an ocean nearby
By James Norton
Published: July 30, 2008
After putting down your chopsticks at the end of a meal at Azuki, you may be tempted to ask: Did this restaurant get lost? Doesn't it belong in San Francisco, where nondescript...
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Highlight
Film Highlight: American Teen
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 30, 2008
Nanette Burstein, who made the entertaining Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, spent a year hanging out with a handful of carefully chosen adolescents from...
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Blotter
RNC protestors swarm ceremony, disrupt meeting
Council members get served, but demonstrator gets arrested
Published: July 30, 2008
It was supposed to be a feel-good moment. Armed with a giant, $40,000 check made out to the Minneapolis Fire Department courtesy of Allianz Life Insurance, City Council...
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CD Review
K-Salaam & Beatnick: Whose World Is This?
By Peter S. Scholtes
Published: July 30, 2008
The perennial idea of putting a street rapper with a polished crooner probably dates to '60s Jamaica and U-Roy toasting over Melodians dubplates. But the latest hit to break...
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Pucker Up
Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men
Inside the secret world of the straight guise
By Tristan Taormino
Published: July 30, 2008
Once again, a female singer has a hit song called "I Kissed A Girl"; I saw Katy Perry perform it on network television the other night. As she danced around in her cute yellow...
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to "All God's Children"
Published: July 30, 2008
Gay Prayers Answered Thank you so very much for this article ("All God's Children," 7/16/08). I was deeply moved by how carefully and intuitively your paper addressed this...
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