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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Acme's "Caught in the Act" open-mic night may well be the best free show in the Twin Cities. The lineup is a balanced blend of unpredictable and excitable first-timers,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
