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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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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...
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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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Most trivia nights have at least one question or category that does a team in. Perhaps you and your friends know nothing of sports, or history questions from a certain era...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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"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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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,...
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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....
