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   Yo! the Movement 7th Annual Celebration of Hip Hop

   By Peter S. Scholtes

   Published: August 20, 2008

   After six annual Twin Cities Celebrations of Hip Hop, the three most recent of which took over First Avenue for a weekend, sponsors Yo! The Movement have scaled back the event...

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   Company Inc.

   By Pat O'Brien

   Published: August 20, 2008

   On 2007's Limited Liability, Company Inc. let us take a peek into their weird, wonderful world. Cellos that start, bounce along, and disappear just as abruptly as they arrived....

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   Gary Louris

   By Pat O'Brien

   Published: August 20, 2008

   He helped birth alt-country, that increasingly hard to define sound, albeit one that was represented perfectly on the Jayhawks' 1995 album, Tomorrow The Green Grass. Louris and...

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   These Modern Socks

   By Desiree Weber

   Published: August 20, 2008

   These Modern Socks may have started as a one-man bedroom band, but it has certainly evolved into something more. Even rarer: a band that melds a range of indie pop influences...

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   Chokecherry

   By Amber Schadewald

   Published: August 20, 2008

   With their boots grounded in folk, a wagon full of punk flair, and lyrics full of political steam, Chokecherry sound like cheap beer and taste like squealing tires. The rowdy...

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   Parachutes

   By Amber Schadewald

   Published: August 20, 2008

   Hailing from Reykjavik, Iceland, Parachutes' soft sweeping melodies will whisk you into a wintry abyss of the calm and collected. A group of seven, they bring together sleepy...

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   Flobots

   By Ray Cummings

   Published: August 20, 2008

   Denver, Colorado's Flobots seem intent on fomenting a populist revolution—or, at least, cashing in on the sugar-coated, romanticized, anything-can-happen idea of one....

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   Welcome to the Cinema

   By Jen Paulson

   Published: August 20, 2008

   On Welcome to the Cinema's first full-length release, the burgeoning talent of these South Dakotans spills out in abundance. They mix rousing indie rock with an occasional...

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   Great Lake Swimmers

   By Jen Paulson

   Published: August 20, 2008

   Great Lake Swimmers' 2007 release, Ongiara, was a gorgeous record full of lush, moody folk ambiance seamlessly melded with deeply poignant and heartfelt lyricism. Even though...

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    Half-Priced Wine Night at French Meadow

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: August 20, 2008

    You might not think of French Meadow when choosing places to enjoy an adult beverage. It is, after all, in close proximity to bars like the Bulldog and the C.C. Club. But if...

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    Seth Tobocman

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Seth Tobocman is a man who wears many hats. He's an antiwar and anti-racism activist; he's a radical cartoonist, perhaps most famous for co-founding the long-running comic...

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    Saint Paul-itics: Bill Arnold

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Recently, I went to a politically minded happy hour with a friend. Sitting there with a beer in hand, I listened to some local politician attempting to explain to the room how...

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    Hindsight is Always 20/20

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: August 20, 2008

    As the Faces lamented in "Oh La La": I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger. Truer words are rarely spoken. In "Hindsight Is Always 20/20," New York-based artist...

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    Rain Taxi 50th Issue Celebration

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Some may say that hard times have befallen the art of literary review. Many will point to sluggish and declining book sales as indicative of a growing trend: People just don't...

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    The Hobbit

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Those of us who grew up on Tolkien are still reeling in satisfaction from Peter Jackson's spot-on mega-ambitious screen trilogy Lord of the Rings, and his take on The Hobbit...

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    Patrick Brandt "Live Life Give Love" Celebration

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Before he passed away from a brain tumor earlier this year, Patrick Brandt was best friends with Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi and her husband, local...

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    Derive 2

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: August 20, 2008

    The Republican National Convention is upon us, so there's no better time to consider Samuel Beckett's short play What Where, which references torture and unexplained...

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    God's Pottery

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: August 20, 2008

    God's Pottery has done for gently mocking hokey Christian music what Sasha Baron Cohen's Borat did for laughing at Kazakhstan. Guitar player Jeremiah Smallchild and bell player...

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    At Your Cervix Benefit Party

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: August 20, 2008

    I must reluctantly admit that once a year, when that annual physical rolls around, part of me is queasy and apprehensive. I try to be outwardly tough and nonchalant, but...

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    Foshay Soiree

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: August 20, 2008

    The latest chapter of Minneapolis's iconic Foshay Tower is about to begin, and it arrives with something called a pillow menu. No expense was spared when originally...