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Pan Africa Fest: Habib Koite & Bamada
By Jordan Selbo
Published: August 6, 2008
A six-day celebration of African arts that features artists from the continent as well as its diaspora, both global and local, this is less a festival than a cultural and...
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We Are Scientists
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: August 6, 2008
According to We Are Scientists' website—which is as humorous as it is informative—the band formed in a dorm room at Pomona College in Claremont, California, while...
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James Blunt
By Ray Cummings
Published: August 6, 2008
Hate to get all Ocean's Eleven here, but indulge me as I paraphrase: "You can't lose focus in this pop game for a second." Because, see, the general public's already lost sight...
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Booker T. & the M.G.'s
By Nate Patrin
Published: August 6, 2008
Outside the world of jazz, it's pretty rare that a band with no significant history of lyric-driven songwriting can make such a huge impact on pop music. Booker T. & the M.G.'s...
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Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi
By Ben Palosaari
Published: August 6, 2008
A gray-haired woman named Bonnie sits on a couch in Port Gibson, Mississippi, holding a framed photo of clouds she thinks look like an angel. The image sounds too simplistic to...
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30th Annual Irish Fest
By Jackie Varriano
Published: August 6, 2008
The time has come once again when it is acceptable—legal, even—to "hurl" in public. That's right: This weekend is the seventh-annual Irish Fair held at Harriet...
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Bart Scheider
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: August 6, 2008
There is absolutely no way that you can confuse the setting of Bart Schneider's latest novel, The Man in the Blizzard. Each sentence is loaded with Twin Cities details, and on...
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Bart Schneider
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: August 6, 2008
There is absolutely no way that you can confuse the setting of Bart Schneider's latest novel, The Man in the Blizzard. Each sentence is loaded with Twin Cities details, and on...
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Bart Schneider
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: August 6, 2008
There is absolutely no way that you can confuse the setting of Bart Schneider's latest novel, The Man in the Blizzard. Each sentence is loaded with Twin Cities details, and on...
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Bart Schneider
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: August 6, 2008
There is absolutely no way that you can confuse the setting of Bart Schneider's latest novel, The Man in the Blizzard. Each sentence is loaded with Twin Cities details, and on...
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Jake Johannsen
By P.F. Wilson
Published: August 6, 2008
There are quite a few comics that describe themselves as storytellers, but few are as adept at that style as Jake Johannsen. With a twinge of bewilderment and an everyman...
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Feature
Q&A with Fringe Artists
Published: August 6, 2008
Joseph ScrimshawAn Inconvenient SquirrelJoseph Scrimshaw ProductionsCity Pages: Describe your show in 10 words or less.Joseph Scrimshaw: Four men dressed as...
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to "Governor No"
Published: August 6, 2008
Just Say No Jonathan Kaminsky's article on Gov. Tim Pawlenty should be required reading for the folks who voted for him—and anyone else who wants to enhance his...
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Gimme Noise
Matt Jennings: The other brother
Folk artist Matt Jennings is singing a different tune from his big-time sibling Mason
By Andrea Swensson
Published: August 6, 2008
It's difficult to discuss local singer-songwriter Matt Jennings without bringing up his sibling, so we may as well get it over with: Jennings's older brother, Mason, is kind of...
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CD Review
Muja Messiah: Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy
By Jordan Selbo
Published: August 6, 2008
There's a thin line in hip hop between engaging contradiction and hypocritical convolution, and a grand tradition of both. For the former, see KRS's educated gangsta diatribes...
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5ingles
The Songs We Can't Escape
By Ray Cummings
Published: August 6, 2008
BECK"Orphans" You know, I'm liking this tune a lot more than anything offa Guero or The Information—and producer Danger Mouse might know Mr. Hansen even better than he...
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Critics' Picks
She & Him and more
Published: August 6, 2008
WEDNESDAY 8.06 El Vez First Avenue While visiting Graceland a while back and perusing bottles of Elvis "sweat" and velour playing cards and whatnot in the gift shop,...
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Dish
Why the Twin Cities is the best place to eat ice cream in the universe
With this many choices of local, handcrafted treats, why go anywhere else?
By Rachel Hutton
Published: August 6, 2008
Sitting on a bench outside Pumphouse Creamery with a scoop of strawberry sorbet, I watched a class of fencing students spill out from the neighboring Chicago Avenue storefront,...
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À la carte
Comfort Zone
Weighing in on Fat Lorenzo's classic pizzas and hoagies
By James Norton
Published: August 6, 2008
One bite of the pizza at Fat Lorenzo's and you know you've found something remarkable. The single slices ($3-$3.73) sprawl across the plate like deflated cheese zeppelins (they...
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Movies
In love and on the run in Pineapple Express
The filmmakers don't act like this is an action movie: it's an idyllic romance interrupted by gunplay
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 6, 2008
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who have made Judd...
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