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  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Pop music predictions for 2011

    ​Think 2010 was full of ridiculous, over-the-top moments in pop music? Just wait until you see what 2011 has in store. As part of our year-in-review blitz, we took a look in our crystal ball to make some projections for the year ahead...

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    David Cornelius Smith dies 10 days after shock from cop's Taser

    The controversial Taser is involved in another local death.​Ten days after Minneapolis cops shocked him into submission with a Taser at the downtown YMCA, David Cornelius Smith is dead. Smith was in the gym on the sixth floor when officers were called to remove him. The 28-year-old appeared ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2010

    Badlands

    From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Forced repatriation of ethnic Hmong raises state senator's ire

    Mee Moua joins the international outcry over the fate of 4,000 Hmong forced to return to Laos.

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    David Byrne live benefit EP

    David Byrne has a wonderful four-song EP for download benefiting Amnesty International highlighted by an amazing live version of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' "Help Me Somebody," converting a song based on samples to a live vocal jam. There's also a superior version of "One Fine Day," from his stil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    Star Tribune reporter Tased

    Probably one of her better days since the bankruptcy filing.

  • News

    September 3, 2008

    The Show Must Go On

    From the Xcel Energy Center to the riot zone, we're covering the RNC

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Hard Cell: Amnesty International to Bring a Gitmo Cell to RNC

    From the Xcel Energy Center to the riot zone, we're covering the RNC

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2008

    Don't Tase Me or St. Paul, Bro

    From the Xcel Energy Center to the riot zone, we're covering the RNC

  • News

    November 14, 2007

    Final Refuge

    Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

  • Music

    April 11, 2007

    No Hurries

    A look at the year's most popular slow songs, so far

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2006

    5/4: Morning Communique

    A look at the year's most popular slow songs, so far

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2005

    6/1/2005: Morning Communique

    A look at the year's most popular slow songs, so far

  • News

    April 24, 2002

    From Berlin to Bogotá

    One woman's memories of war and dreams of peace

  • Books

    April 17, 2002

    Before the Campus Burned

    On the eve of the U of M's hockey championship, Castro came calling

  • Books

    December 5, 2001

    Whose Smoke? Whose Holes?

    Minnesota's Male Immigrants Ready For A Broad Justice-department Sweep

  • News

    December 20, 2000

    Better Days

    They went through hell in Mogadishu. But for 17-year-old Mohamed Abdullahi and other Somali immigrants, in Minneapolis it's still an uphill climb.

  • Books

    November 22, 2000

    Eduardo Galeano: Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World

    They went through hell in Mogadishu. But for 17-year-old Mohamed Abdullahi and other Somali immigrants, in Minneapolis it's still an uphill climb.

  • Music

    November 15, 2000

    N'Dour Endures

    A world-music star from 1970s Senegal finds his place in the age of hip hop

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    Welcome to Minnetripoli

    Libyan dissenters worldwide build a virtual headquarters--on a local public-access server

  • Feature

    October 1, 1997

    PUBLIC JOURNALIST #1

    The Real Revolution Radio: Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica's Democracy Now!

  • News

    March 19, 1997

    Peeling the Onion

    USA Today, Tomorrow the World: Inside the only humor publication that matters

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