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A-List
Tour D'Amico
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: July 1, 2009
Looking for something sporty to do this weekend before firing up the grill? This scenic bike ride should do the trick. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the Tour...
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A-List
Earth, Wind & Fire; Chicago
By Rick Mason
Published: July 1, 2009
Both of these bands were huge in the 1970s, but came at things from entirely different angles. EW&F, formed by brothers Maurice and Verdine White in 1969, embraced eclecticism,...
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A-List
Cirque du Soleil: Kooza
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: July 1, 2009
Twenty-five years ago if you had asked someone to name things they associated with the word "circus," they may have come up with lions jumping through hoops of fire, scary...
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A-List
Science Trivia Night
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: July 1, 2009
Pub quizzes can be tough on science nerds. Questions asked may be in subjects such as pop-culture trivia, obscure music facts, or art-house flicks, hardly the kind of thing...
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News
Conservative columnist Katherine Kersten finds unlikely ally in the ACLU
The Strib's Kersten takes issue with church vs. state—but only when it involves Islam
By Erin Carlyle
Published: July 1, 2009
On the afternoon of March 3, 2008, Katherine Kersten waited in the parking lot outside an Inver Grove Heights school, stalking Muslims. The school building housed both Tarek...
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Blotter
Bachmann's census conspiracy theory, Air Tron, and more
Perhaps Bachmann could buy the Tron plane and leave for good?
Published: July 1, 2009
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Okinawa) worries that if she thoroughly answers census questions, she will be thrown in a Japanese internment camp by ACORN. Bachmann...
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Mischke
Are women happiest at age 28?
Friends answer: Damn straight
By TD Mischke
Published: July 1, 2009
The published study would have slipped by me unnoticed if it hadn't been for the college women discussing it at an airport coffee shop. I was out of town last weekend and had...
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to "Powerpoint Penis"
Published: July 1, 2009
Flash fight I'm a Flash developer, I'm a white male, and I don't appreciate Emily Kaiser portraying my profession in one sweeping generalization as "the boys' club that is the...
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Gimme Noise
City on the Make keep pushing with latest and best album, Keep This on Fire
Members all work or worked at the Dakota Jazz Club
By Andrea Swensson
Published: July 1, 2009
There's something irresistible about how difficult it is to label City on the Make's music, and it's part of what makes their latest album, Keep This on Fire, so intoxicating....
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Music
Michael Jackson: A Eulogy
Remembering the world's greatest artistic influence
By David Hansen
Published: July 1, 2009
The story ends here. What began in poverty ends in unknowable wealth. What began in a crowded, working-class home in a crowded, working-class city ends in a vacuum of...
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CD Review
Digitata: Art Work Pays
By Carl Atiya Swanson
Published: July 1, 2009
With nine songs in 30 minutes, Digitata's new release, Art Work Pays, is billed as an EP, but feels something like a 85-minute feature film—a little too short to be fully...
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CD Review
Gospel Gossip: Dreamland
By Carl Atiya Swanson
Published: July 1, 2009
It might seem strange to call a band that plays live shows full of thrashing energy subtle, but Gospel Gossip's new EP, Dreamland, is full of subtleties. The six-song record...
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5ingles
The Songs We Can't Escape
By Ray Cummings
Published: July 1, 2009
WILCO"Black Bull Nova" Does titling a record Wilco (The Album) qualify as a shark-jump for these Chicago dad-rockers? Dunno, but "Nova" reflects what's now a trend in their...
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Critics' Picks
Judas Priest, the Roots, and more
Published: July 1, 2009
THURSDAY 7.2 The Roots First Avenue As far as Jimmy Fallon is concerned, the Roots are the best band in late-night. Though he's a tad biased—they back him up each...
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Dish
Lyn-Lake's Risotto is affordably and casually chic
Restaurant does the fussy Italian dish right—but not at lunch
By Rachel Hutton
Published: July 1, 2009
Risotto, the new Italian restaurant at Lyn-Lake, might be the only place in the area where Andrea Bocelli can play on the stereo without seeming cheesy. The night I heard the...
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Movies
Public Enemies is fast and furious look at John Dillinger's life and crimes
Miami Vice director Michael Mann wisely chooses Johnny Depp for lead role
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 1, 2009
"They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger upon surveying...
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Highlight
Film Highlight: Whatever Works
By J. Hoberman
Published: July 1, 2009
Whatever Works is Woody Allen's first New York movie after five years abroad. It's his first in even longer to center on the Woody Allen character—an urban neurotic, here...
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Spotlight
Theater Spotlight: Funny Money
By Quinton Skinner
Published: July 1, 2009
Ray Cooney's Funny Money is the sort of farce in which the audience derives much of its pleasure from watching unlikely characters sweat and stress through their machinations....
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