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Michele Bachmann has inspired a sexy romance novel [INCREDIBLE COVER IMAGE]

Michele Bachmann has inspired us to desk-slam our heads more times than we can recall. But she's inspired others in more positive ways. SEE ALSO: Michele Bachmann has "sex appeal," top Pawlenty aide saysFor instance, she's moved author Trey Sager to write Fires of Siberia, "an old-fashioned bodice r ... More >>

NDSU student reports rape; authorities say she was acting out rape fantasy and charge her

North Dakota State University was on high alert Monday one day after a brutal rape was reported to campus police.SEE ALSO: Fargo-area eens face felonies after allegedly stealing cop radio and broadcasting, "F**k the police" Fargo native Mary Gullickson, 20, told police she was forced into a vehicle, ... More >>

Senate Majority Leader-elect Bakk responds dismissively to pro-marriage equality email

In response to our Friday post -- "Majority Leader-elect Bakk: 'Some real liberal constituencies' pushing marriage equality bill" -- regular City Pages reader Bob Alberti decided to email the DFL's Senate leader and give him a piece of his mind later that day.SEE ALSO: Marriage Equality for Minnesot ... More >>

How family business FirstTech got to be the world's longest-running Apple dealer

In 1977, when the Zuckman family started stocking the Apple II computer, it was just another one of their products.The three Zuckman brothers -- Arnie, Rick and Harvey -- had taken over their parents' electronics business, and sold all kinds of devices -- radios, television, stereos -- out of their ... More >>

Chuck Grassley, Iowa Senator, is hilariously awful at Twitter

SEE ALSO:-- Rep. Mary Franson infuriated by Earth Day, calls it "Pagan holiday" [UPDATE]-- Mike Parry's tweet scrubbed on "arrogant black man" ObamaWe have our share of colorful social media political personalities up here in Minnesota. But there may not be another politician in the world that can r ... More >>

Mike Dreams on Soundset, Kurt Cobain, and humanity

Mike Hannah, aka Mike Dreams, is certainly mysterious as a young man who has lived many lives in his short years. The rapper/hip-hop artist has brought to fruition his dreams -- so to speak -- on his third album Millennial. The album is a collection of songs that hit you in the gut -- even when they ... More >>

Minneapolis launches 311 smart phone app for service requests

What's your damage? Minneapolis authorities have made it easier for you to tell them by launching a 311 mobile app yesterday. Minneapolis residents can now report issues like potholes, broken street lights, and graffiti through a free application on iPhone and Android phones without calling 311 or l ... More >>

I buy more music than Emily White, and you should too

There have been heated discussions and analysis springing up throughout all facets of the music community this week in response to NPR intern Emily White's candid but thoroughly controversial piece, 'I Never Owned Any Music To Begin With,' which was published on the All Songs Considered blog on Satu ... More >>

Stone Arch Bridge Festival 2012: Dream Crusher interview in a limo

Related:Martin Devaney's picks for Stone Arch Bridge FestivalStone Arch Bridge Festival announces music lineupThe ever-expanding experimental collective Dream Crusher will perform at the Stone Arch Bridge Festival this Sunday. And maybe that's when we'll figure out what they mean when they say "Ther ... More >>

Mayer Hawthorne at First Avenue, 5/18/12

Mayer Hawthorne and the County First Avenue Mainroom, Minneapolis Friday, May 18, 2012 Mayer Hawthorne is nothing if not a showman. Decked out in a svelte black sport coat, bowtie, and some pretty extreme red kicks, the bespectacled heir apparent of Motown soul took the stage at Friday night's sold ... More >>

Gigwalk, a smartphone-based temp agency, debuts in Twin Cities

Gigwalk debuts in the Twin Cities next Monday.​Gigwalk is a temp agency designed for the smartphone age. No longer does finding temp work in the Twin Cities meaning filling out a paper application, traveling to an office somewhere to drop it off and perhaps have an interview, then waiting indefini ... More >>

Man on a Ledge goes thud

Sam Worthington flops in center role

The real R.T. Rybak

Up close and personal with the Minneapolis mayor

Birchwood Cafe hosts Farmer Meet & Eat with Izzy's Jeff Sommers

An ice cream Meet & Eat​On Saturday, July 16 from 1-3 p.m., Birchwood Cafe will hold a Farmer Meet & Eat event with Izzy's owner Jeff Sommers. While he may not work the land, when Sommers and wife Lara Hammel made the decision to get their dairy from Wisconsin's Sassy Cow Creamery, it put ... More >>

Bachmann keeps Elvis Christmas music on her iPod, and other CNN debate weirdness

All seven Republicans, on the right.​The Republican "debate" on CNN last night wasn't really a debate at all, it was a two-hour press conference in which seven candidates took turns trashing President Obama. No one expected anything different, really. All seven of them just wanted to cram int ... More >>

T-Pain vows to 'never use Auto-Tune again'

​It's a salacious headline, isn't it? And it's the subject of a press release that went out today on behalf of the Top 40 digitized crooner whose extensive and unabashed use of the vocal effect has been making pop music more and more robotic over the past few years. "I'm done with Auto-Tune," ... More >>

James Blake at the Entry, 5/16/11

Photos by Alex Uncapher​James BlakeMay 16, 20117th St. Entry, Minneapolis"When we got here earlier we walked through the bigger room, where we thought we were playing," James Blake said, laughing shyly as he addressed the crowd midway through his set last night. "I thought, why aren't we playing t ... More >>

Surly bill passes Senate floor vote 60-0

Sen. Chris Gerlach explains the liquor package and Surly bill to a full Senate.​This afternoon, the Surly bill sailed over its final legislative hurdle and is poised to become a law. Just hours ago, the Senate voted unanimously for passage of its omnibus liquor bill, which included the popular ... More >>

Chef Sleeve helps iPads surpass cookbooks

Cracking an egg on your iPad could spell disaster!​Gadgets that require a million accessories (the cases, the screen-cleaners, the back-up batteries...etc.) are a little exhausting, but as whole shelves of cookbooks are being replaced by their digital counterparts--accessed by an expensive ele ... More >>

Osama bin Laden is dead! A musical roundup

​Well, we don't have Osama bin Laden to kick around anymore, do we? Or at least, we don't have Osama bin Laden to have hover unseen and malevolent over our Threat Level Orange existences anymore, do we? Osama bin got gotten! I'm the first to make that joke. As always, with big news comes big s ... More >>

Pitchfork rips are fun and entertaining

​Pitchfork ribbing is kind of like kickball, something people do perennially and with no really good reason. It's like baseball, right? It's been a minute since our tasteful overlords got some mud in their face, especially of their own making. So what a relief it was to see this morning, amids ... More >>

Mike DeCamp of La Belle Vie: Chef Chat, part 1

Young Chef Mike DeCamp at La Belle Vie​Long after formal fine dining was declared dead, Minneapolis's La Belle Vie continues to garner awards and recognition as the classiest restaurant in town. At the helm of the kitchen is soft-spoken, facial-hair-festooned tastemaker Mike DeCamp.  Sending ... More >>

Tiny Furniture captures life of aimless college grad

What happens when one moves back in with Mom

Oregon Trail: The Documentary Part 2

The continuation of the Oregon Trail saga.​This week's cover story relates the origin of the most successful educational video game of all time -- Oregon Trail. It started with three Carleton student teachers, but it certainly didn't end there.

Al Franken: Net neutrality rules permit political censorship [UPDATE]

Franken: Keep it neutral.​The compromise net neutrality rules just adopted by the FCC would prohibit broadband providers like Comcast and Qwest from blocking user access to websites and applications. But the measure won't do the same thing for wireless companies, and Al Franken smells censor ... More >>

The Week That Was: Travis Barker won't go away, Aretha Franklin alive

​What's that you say? All you want for Christmas is to not be Travis Barker? That's easy; wish granted! Unless, of course, you are Travis Barker, in which case: too bad, so sad. You're always gonna look like a skate rat ghoul. Anyway, let's take a gander at what happened in the world of music last ... More >>

Rogue Valley CD-release at the Cedar, 11/26/10

​Rogue Valley Geese in the Flyway release showNovember 26, 2010Cedar Cultural Center, MinneapolisAs a Cedar staffperson introduced Rogue Valley at their third album release show of the year last Friday night, he made a comment that "Rogue Valley has proposed that they will release four albums this ... More >>

Keg for a Cause to raise funds for Huge Theater's new space

Jill Bernard​Huge Theater is an artist-led company whose mission is to support the Twin Cities improvisation community through performance and education. The theater began in 2005, but the combined experience of its instructors--Jill Bernard, Nels Lennes, and Butch Roy--is well over 30 years. ... More >>

Taylor Swift inks deal with Target

Screengrab via TwitPicTaylor Swift and Target: Kissing the dog means inking a deal. ​We know what Taylor Swift saw from the stage last month at the Target Center, and now we know her performance in front of Big Red's army had an even bigger upside than a quick paycheck. Swift has signed a dea ... More >>

Video: Jeremy Messersmith, "Lazy Bones"

​Jeremy Messersmith's iPhone makes the best music videos. Fresh from a tour that spanned most of the past summer, Messersmith just released a new homemade music video for "Lazy Bones," the opening track off his most recent album The Reluctant Graveyard. "I thought I'd post of video of all the rock ... More >>

Jared Allen cuts the mullet to prove love indeed conquers all

He cleans up pretty good, don't you think?​Say it ain't so! And, if it is so, what's going to become of that nifty mullet-izer on his iPhone app. Yes, Jared Allen has cleaned up his act. At least when it comes to his hair. "The things men do for love," Allen said on the Minnesota Vikings team bl ... More >>

Walking Shadow's "Transdimensional" mind trip rides the timestream

See you last week! ZAP!​For those of us who have been waiting for an engrossing time-travel science-fiction work for the stage (you know who you are), this weekend marks the arrival of Walking Shadow Theatre Company's The Transdimensional Couriers Union, in which a commonly available electronic de ... More >>

Drunk and disorderly

Bradstreet, Solera, and more: Happy hours for grownups

Drink like an adult on a college kid's budget

WCCO launches The Wire social media and interactive timeline news site

The station has been teasing the application for months. Now, digital media director John Daenzer has made it official: The Wire is live.

Gimme Shelter countdown: 5 days

As our Haiti benefits looms, we take a moment to reflect on one of our co-headliners, Mark Mallman.

Technologies we should have by now: Where's our flying cars?

If scientists would stop researching obvious stuff like "Why do people like sex so much," we might already have these.

Owl City announces North America dates

Electro wunderkind to tour the U.S. this spring.

Will it blend...a gun?

Known for pulverizing golf balls and iPhones, the superpowered Blendtec Total Blender takes on guns and ammo. Don't try this at home.

State Fair tweeps bathe in chocolate-covered bacon, haiku love

Two-hundred happy people gathered under a tent in the pouring rain Friday, iPhones and Blackberrys unholstered and ready, clapping and cheering for chocolate covered bacon.

State Fair enters the twitterverse

After a dip into the social media universe last summer with Facebook, the Minnesota State Fair has now entered the Twitterverse. Cue Twighlight Zone music.

Twisdom: Al Franken's win

The Metro area and beyond bestows some Twisdom on Franken's win. See what people were tweeting.

It's Friday! Play hooky, stalk Britney

We've got an idea: Tell your boss you puked, pull up Twitter on your iPhone and start your afternoon by stalking Britney Spears. Everyone else is doing it.

Underground dinner parties add mystery to bored diners' schedules

Chefs partner with artists to create meals inspired by the artists' work

Blame upcoming Walker show artist for Teletubbies nightmares

If you don't remember Teletubbies, those creepy rotund creatures with TV bellies that dominated PBS for far too long with strange names and odd possessions, you're one of the lucky ones.

Lil Wayne's "Prom Queen" debuts

Q&A: Jon Jameson of the Delta Spirits

Jeremy Messersmith CD release show tonight

Oh, Cooper, where art thou?

Golden Parachute.com

James Lileks gets a new gig while other Stribbers get their walking papers