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The One Show: Advertising + Design + Interactive
By Ben Palosaari
Published: August 20, 2008
MCAD's "The One Show" is like the anti-Superbowl, or the antithesis to the increasingly mundane annual British Television Advertising Awards at the Walker. The last two offer a...
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A-List
Still Black Still Proud: The African Tribute to James Brown
By Rick Mason
Published: August 20, 2008
The Godfather of Soul was not only a hugely influential icon in the U.S. and Europe, he was perhaps even more revered in Africa, where enthusiastic throngs turned out for his...
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Arturo Miles & Collective Dance Co.: Elements in Translation/Revolution
By Caroline Palmer
Published: August 20, 2008
Hip-hop choreographer and Collective member Arturo Miles is calling for a revolution this weekend, at least within the walls of Patrick's Cabaret. He'll be presenting a new...
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ArtCar: Midtown Global Market
By Jackie Varriano
Published: August 20, 2008
Even though the summer of 2008 is lacking a traditional Art Car Parade, dry your tears—there are still a multitude of chances for you to feast your eyes on crowd...
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A-List
Minnesota State Fair
By Ben Palosaari
Published: August 20, 2008
It's the world's strangest Pavlovian experiment: Place Minnesota residents in the vicinity of massive quantities of manure, claustrophobia-inducing crowds, and spinning Midway...
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A-List
Sonny Landreth
By Rick Mason
Published: August 20, 2008
Southern Louisiana native Sonny Landreth has reflected his heritage throughout his career with major doses of Cajun, zydeco, and New Orleans music. But as a formidable slide...
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Feature
Minnesota's largest shelter killed more than 14,000 animals last year. How many were unnecessary?
Animal welfare advocates say the shelter could dramatically reduce euthanasia rates
By Beth Walton
Published: August 20, 2008
When Amber was a little girl she would save her allowance to buy cat food for the strays roaming her neighborhood behind the Animal Humane Society's St. Paul location, a place...
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News
Why does Minnesota have the nation's highest autism rate?
One in every 81 births here is an autistic child — twice the national average
By Bradley Campbell
Published: August 20, 2008
In a modest, two-level home tucked into a hillside in the suburban town of Wayzata, Tim Kasemodel prepares for another day as a house dad. He has the slightly overweight build...
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News
Mark Olson: GOP Pariah
The quixotic wife abuser keeps his eyes on the prize
By Jonathan Kaminsky
Published: August 20, 2008
In November 2006, a week after easily winning reelection to his eighth term as the state representative for his southern Sherburne County district, Republican Mark Olson got...
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Blotter
Cop Out
St. Paul experiencing a shortage of head-bustin' thugs
Published: August 20, 2008
As hoards of RNC protesters begin trickling into the Twin Cities, the St. Paul police department is coming up a bit short of their 3,500 officers-on-the-ground goal. Last...
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to "In Plain Sight"
Published: August 20, 2008
Believe the children I am finally heard! I would like to thank Beth Walton for printing the child's side of the story ("In Plain Sight," 7/30/08). Family court shouldn't be...
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Gimme Noise
Jeff Hanson's third album keeps him moving forward
The low-profile local is prepared to make a splash nationally
By Andrea Swensson
Published: August 20, 2008
A friend of mine recently wrote a passage that has been echoing in my head. He was waxing poetic on his recent experience at a Bon Iver concert and concluded: "It's an...
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Music
Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo uses dark music as therapy
The Goodie Mob alum and DJ Danger Mouse perform at the State Fair
By Ben Westhoff
Published: August 20, 2008
Sure, Gnarls Barkley want you to think they're weird. It's not every day that you see a pudgy, pioneering rapper dressed up as Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski, after all, as...
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CD Review
One for the Team: Build It Up
By Will McClain
Published: August 20, 2008
Though it debuted in late August, One for the Team's latest record belongs to the summer solstice, to some fabled day on which the breeze is always warm and the sun never sets....
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CD Review
Juliana Hatfield: How to Walk Away
By Peter S. Scholtes
Published: August 20, 2008
I'd mostly tuned out Juliana Hatfield since 1990, though I bought and still play the first couple of Blake Babies albums. Solo or with one of her bands, Hatfield's moody MOR...
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5ingles
The Songs We Can't Escape
By Ray Cummings
Published: August 20, 2008
GOWN"Taylor's Jam" Stuff we can extrapolate from this slow-brewing tune: Taylor, whoever he is, likes to hang loose, takes his time on city sidewalks (never jaywalks or flips...
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Critics' Picks
These Modern Socks and more
Published: August 20, 2008
WEDNESDAY 8.20 Great Lake Swimmers 7th St. Entry Great Lake Swimmers' 2007 release, Ongiara, was a gorgeous record full of lush, moody folk ambiance seamlessly...
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Dish
Big E is Back
The popular soul food chef's new venture brings New Orleans to South St. Paul
By Rachel Hutton
Published: August 20, 2008
If you follow Concord Street south from downtown St. Paul on your way to Bourbon Street Steak House, the area starts to look so desolate that by the time you pass the shuttered...
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À la carte
One Shrimp Gumbo, Hold the Abuse
SoupMan isn't Soup Nazi good, but it can make a tasty lunch
By James Norton
Published: August 20, 2008
There's a whole bunch of marketing nonsense surrounding the Original SoupMan, a chain of casual soup-and-sandwich restaurants originating in New York. Most of it swirls around...
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Movies
Hamlet 2: Not To Be
Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 20, 2008
In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to knock any sequence that climaxes...
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