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1. News

   Minneapolis photographer captures Obama as a young man

   Lisa Jack didn't know she was photographing the first black president

   By Erin Carlyle

   Published: June 24, 2009

   Lisa Jack squints in the sun outside a Caribou Coffee in Little Canada, cocks her head to the side, and remembers. It was 1980, and Jack was at the Cooler, a cafe on West Los...

2. Blotter

   Twin Cities woman disfigured after DIY silicone injections

   Plus: Anti-census Bachmann, hermaphrodite-loving Katie Couric, and more

   By Emily Kaiser

   Published: June 24, 2009

   If you're looking for cheaper alternatives to Botox and silicone injections from the doctor to pretty up your face, think again. This lady learned the hard way. The Twin Cities...

3. Letters to the Editor

   Burger Time

   Readers respond to "Sizzlin'!"

   Published: June 24, 2009

   I still do not understand the hype behind California's In-N-Out Burger. Yes, they are good, but not better than anything we have here in the Midwest. I was kind of disappointed...

4. Music

   Songs to define a nation

   What 25 songs would America take to a desert island?

   By TD Mischke

   Published: June 24, 2009

   It's the absurd question we're asked at least once in our lifetime: If forced to live alone on a desert island, and allowed only one song, what tune would we take along? It's...

5. 5ingles

   5ingles

   The Songs We Can't Escape

   By Ray Cummings

   Published: June 24, 2009

   "Overjoyed" Not a Stevie Wonder cover. Here at 5ingles HQ, we've been awaiting a follow-up to this Elephant 6 crew's 2001 debut for almost a decade now. However, there's a...

6. Gimme Noise

   Idle Hands pick up speed with local radio's blessing

   The Hearts We Broke on the Way to the Show makes long-awaited debut this month

   By Andrea Swensson

   Published: June 24, 2009

   Fans of 89.3 the Current will undoubtedly be familiar with the Idle Hands, even if they don't recognize the band by name—their new single, "Loaded," has been spinning...

7. Dish

   Linden Hills' Trattoria Tosca makes the ambitious seem effortless

   Chef Adam Vickerman creates simple-seeming creations with seasonal ingredients

   By Rachel Hutton

   Published: June 24, 2009

   For the past five years, ever since Harvey McLain moved his Turtle Bread baking facilities out of Linden Hills, neighbors have been waiting, patiently, for him to make good on...

8. Movies

   My Sister's Keeper is honest only about illness

   Jason Patric and Cameron Diaz play parents of sick child

   By Nick Pinkerton

   Published: June 24, 2009

   Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald's parents didn't just plan for her—they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare parts and infusions for her...

9. Theater

   Robots vs. Fake Robots explores love between man and machine

   Play set in 6000 A.D. is ridiculously engaging and sexy

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: June 24, 2009

   The important thing, as the years pile up, is to keep hold of the sense of play: doing things that are free yet passionately absorbing, and riding that balance between...

10. A-List

    SlamMN: Grand Slam

    By Ward Rubrecht

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Now that this year's Minneapolis slam poetry national team has been decided, there remains a score yet to be settled. Who will represent Minneapolis at the Individual World...

11. A-List

    I Love You Tomorrow

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: June 24, 2009

    We all know history tends to repeat itself, and who hasn't experienced that odd sense of déjà vu when events suddenly seem eerily familiar, as if they were...

12. A-List

    Butterfly Garden

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: June 24, 2009

    There's something special about butterfly sightings, even if at first glance one might find herself alarmed, thinking she's about to be stung by an enormous wasp. Thankfully,...

13. A-List

    Nicolas Lincoln: Hot Mess

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Red Eye's annual "Isolated Acts" presents the wild-eyed visions of both emerging and established experimental artists, nurturing the work for a six-month period by giving...

14. A-List

    Digitata (EP-Release)

    By Andrea Swensson

    Published: June 24, 2009

    For the first time in a year and a half, local electro group Digitata will re-emerge to play a show and release an EP. The new nine-track album, called Art Work Pays, was...

15. A-List

    Bill Santiago

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Years ago, before most people knew who Barack Obama was, Bill Santiago thought about the possibility of a black president. "If you're asking how far this country is from true...

16. A-List

    Open Mic Night

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: June 24, 2009

    If you think you're funny because your co-workers feign laughter at the little jokes and puns you dispense at the water cooler, please think again. If you're convinced you're a...

17. A-List

    Bill Cosby

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Seems every recent generation has a Bill Cosby—literally. Folks growing up in the '60s knew him as the co-star of the I-Spy TV series. If you came of age in the '70s, you...

18. A-List

    Sister Stories

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: June 24, 2009

    The dice roll of human genetics came up amply well for Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden, in terms of vocal prowess and performance presence, and the sisters are...

19. A-List

    Dr. John

    By Rick Mason

    Published: June 24, 2009

    The good gris gris doctor of New Orleans keyboards, the hoodoo guru otherwise known as Mac Rebennack, has been puttin' some serious medicine on the 88s since the 1950s. He was...

20. A-List

    Twin Cities Improv Festival

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: June 24, 2009

    More so than any other style of comedic performance, improv is a risky endeavor. When it works, you get truly hilarious and spontaneous entertainment that crosses the spectrum...