Adolf Hitler

42 retells the Jackie Robinson story

And this time it almost makes a flesh-and-blood man of its hero

Minnesota for Marriage again compares marriage equality advocates to Nazis

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And so, just as they did before last November's marriage amendment vote, Minnesota for Marriage is again comparing marriage equality advocates to Nazis.SEE ALSO: MN for Marriage's concession: "God has defined marriage as between one man and one woman" The ... More >>

I discovered MTV the week after I tried to kill myself

Makes No Sense At All captures the visions, ramblings, and memories of Chris Strouth, a Twin Cities-bred master of music, film, and everything else. My creative life has featured a strong thread of discovering music. The first time I saw MTV, I was overcome with all the happiness and joy expected ... More >>

Kevin Beacham on Get Out to Vote and when politics meet hip-hop

This Sunday is the Keith Ellison-sponsored Get Out to Vote concert at First Avenue. The incumbent Representative of Minnesota's Fifth-Congressional District has put together quite the bill, including performances from Brother Ali, Slug, Dessa as well as a DJ set from noted hip-hop historian and Rede ... More >>

Hitler reacts to Mark Ritchie's voter ID defeat [VIDEO]

SEE ALSO:-- Supreme Court strikes down Mark Ritchie's proposed amendment titles-- Power Line on Mark Ritchie: "He takes the late German Führer as his forensic model" [VIDEO]As news of yesterday's dual Supreme Court's rebuffs of Secretary of State Mark Ritchie circulated, liberals wailed and gnashed ... More >>

David Carlson savages Kurt Bills in new ad, suggests he wouldn't have ended slavery

SEE ALSO:-- David Carlson, Kurt Bills' GOP primary challenger, is also responsible for an awful trailer [VIDEO]-- Dave Wellstone calls Kurt Bills' homage to his father "completely disrespectful"-- Kurt Bills' creepy Staring at the Future political film is laughably bad [VIDEO]David Carlson is taking ... More >>

Noises Off! at Jungle Theater: Comic brilliance

Director Joel Sass and cast take on one of the funniest plays ever written—and deliver

Twin Cities' best plays of 2011

Hairspray, Doubt, On the Spectrum, and more

Michele Bachmann's a mama grizzly to Newsweek

Maybe Christine O'Donnell can teach Michele Bachmann a little witchcraft.​Newsweek has decided that Minnesota's Crazy Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is on a par with Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell and Nikki Haley when it comes to red-jacket wearing, right-wing loons. Makes sense, since she ... More >>

Michele Bachmann says financial reform is fascism

Time for another "ism"​When it comes to delivering the crazy-town incendiary rhetoric, Michele Bachmann doesn't quit. She spent much of the spring spouting the now totally debunked assertion that President Barack Obama had nationalized 51 percent of the U.S. economy.Our pick for Best Villain h ... More >>

Michele Bachmann likened to Father Coughlin by "Wingnut" book author

Coughlin was a Depression-era priest and broadcaster known for anti-Semitic speeches and writings, and sympathy for Hitler and Mussolini.

Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno targets true nature of celebrity

U.K. comic succeeds again at creating a persona we hate to love

The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

Big Daddy Ubu falls short

The plays tries to re-create the dark humor of the last century, but misses

Readers respond to "Your Friendly Neighborhood War Profiteer"

Hellboy sequel is mindless, if revved-up, summer film

The Golden Army will amaze 12-year-olds and amuse their parents

Laughing Pains

Letters to the Editor

Mark Kennedy media man Scott Howell behind controversial Tennessee ad

Free Will Astology

Free Osama

What did bin Laden do to deserve a Minneapolis show trial?

Nine Things We Learned Last Tuesday

Some highlights from the city elections that time (and voters) forgot

Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear

Sweet Sixteen

Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen'

Fourth Blood: Stallone returns as Rambo in 2006

Backwards and Forwards

Any way you look at it, Todd Solondz's 'Palindromes' is a pip

The Undoing of America

Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great U.S. Constitution.

Ask Google: Who's a Nazi?

A Real Nice Clambake

10K things spins 'Carousel'; MJTC resurrects grandma

Protest and Survive

Novelist and historian Tariq Ali on the war and the antiwar movement

Helen Dunmore: The Siege

Bad Taste 101

The Producers and 101 Reykjavik are textbook cases of repugnance redeemed

Out of Gas

Critics say the Animal Humane Society's method of dispatching the unadoptable is cruel. It's certainly becoming unusual.

Triple Dutch

New York publishing becomes New Amsterdam with a wave of artful novels from the Netherlands

Maple Leaf Rag

You Naughty, Naughty Gods

Orpheus descends to the realm of the silly; The Chosen depicts the contemplative life

It's a Wrap

The Mpls/St. Paul International Film Festival swaddles the Cities in cinema

The Hi/Lo Country

Family Guy's madcap suburban Dada slips on more serious subjects

The Canning Jar

Ruminations on motherhood

Keeping the Faith

Perfect Harmony

Welcome to the Jungle

The confounding cinema of Werner Herzog thrusts Western society into the wilds of its own mind

A Grab Bag of Reels

Balkan Shuffle

The Circus Is in Town: The slapstick troupe of Emir Kusturica's Underground.

The End

Boobs & Boobs

THE OTHER VOTE

There is no place to mark "none of the above" on our election ballots.

Mountains and Molehills

Music Notes

Having It Both Ways