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Southside Desire revamp their sound

The rock-tinged R&B group release a remastered debut ahead of the Memory Lanes Block Party

Eatiply: Eat a meal, donate a meal

You decide it's time to donate to charity. So what do you do? Likely reach for your wallet or try to squeeze a couple of volunteer hours into your busy schedule. That's simple enough, but what you probably don't know is that giving back is now as easy as going out to eat. Thanks to a new local orga ... More >>

Princetagram iPhone app unveiled by Jimmy Fallon

Some of the greatest innovations and stupidest pet tricks come out of late-night television, so it's no surprise that Late Night With Jimmy Fallon introduced Princetagram to the masses this week.With Prince fan ?uestlove -- who will perform at the Bobby Z's second Benefit 2 Celebrate Life on March 9 ... More >>

Brain Tumors chosen to launch light painting & music web series

Minneapolis punks Brain Tumors are the launch band for a new web series, Light Up Playlist, combining exclusive music and light painting, and presented by MRI Lightpainting in New York. The series strives to pair elements of light painting photography and animation along with music unique to the sit ... More >>

There's an app for that: Communicate with the dead via a paranormal recorder on your phone [AUDIO]

A cell phone app can tell you where the nearest Starbucks is, or when's the best time to leave a movie for the bathroom. Thanks to Minneapolis computer programmer Ed Williams, there's also an app to help you record messages. Messages from ghosts.See Also:- Minnesota's Most Haunted Places- City Pages ... More >>

City Council Member Don Samuels is a crime-fighting, phone-recovering, civic superhero

Don Samuels is the City Council member who represents Ward 5, better known as north Minneapolis. But on Sunday morning, he used a long editorial on the front page of the Star Tribune's opinion section to suggest he might also be the closest thing to Walker Texas Ranger you're going to find in City H ... More >>

Nine unheralded work songs for Labor Day

As a holiday, Labor Day is rife with contradictions: one works all year to receive a single lousy holiday -- just one fucking day -- celebrating the worker, but that day falls at a spot on the calendar when venturing out anywhere to do anything out of the usual is sado-masochistic at best ... More >>

Firefighters battle flames in drag [VIDEO OF THE DAY]

Apparently, not everyone spends St. Patrick's Day being drunk and generally worthless. According to Paul Streitz, a parade-goer who captured the whole thing on his iPhone, volunteer firefighters from Sedan were about to drive their rig in a St. Paddy's Day parade when a vehicle caught fire nearby. ... More >>

TC Hip-Hop Awards plagued with Taser-fueled violence

​What a difference 48 hours can make in the life of the Twin Cities hip-hop community. Sunday night welcomed a positive showcase of local talent headlined by I Self Devine, but Friday night's sixth annual TC Hip-Hop Awards proved to follow a now-familiar theme of violence during its event at First ... More >>

Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 3

​If you were to watch the Wizard of Oz in its entirety only backwards, that might properly demonstrate what the road is like. You start at home, then slowly lose contact with your friends following a black highway into a tornado. Along the way you bring witches back from the dead. Either story ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's campaign is broke

​Michele Bachmann has a new e-mail blast out, and a new campaign "ad" on Youtube, both of which make it pretty clear that her campaign is totally, absolutely, utterly out of money. Over the last few weeks, Bachmann's fundraising e-mails have grown more desperate, and her videos are about the cheap ... More >>

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Doomtree enter the studio to work on second full-crew album

Photo by Erik HessDoomtree at SXSW 2011​In keeping with their current rigorous schedule of record, release, tour, repeat, the seven current members of the Doomtree crew are heading back into the studio this week to record their second full-length, full-crew album, which will serve as the follow-up ... More >>

Ricky Rubio tweets Minnesota

Rubio's still tweeting under his Barcelona colors. Let's get some Wolves garb on this kid, stat.​Ricky Rubio is finally in the house. The hoped-for savior of the Minnesota Timberwolves is scheduled for a media roll out this afternoon, fresh off the plane from Barcelona, and he's tweeting his a ... More >>

Drudge dogs Franken on iPhone, completely misses the point

Matt Drudge​Here we are, two years into Al Franken's first term as a U.S. senator, and Matt Drudge is still making jokes about Franken's former career as a comedian. Or maybe the famously conservative news aggregator is irked that Franken, an unapologetic liberal, is dogging tech companies that h ... More >>

Al Franken wants Apple and Google to testify about smartphone tracking

Al Franken wants Apple, Google at privacy hearings.​Sen. Al Franken is wading ever deeper into the controversy over whether smartphones are secretly tracking their user's locations. As chairman of the Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee, he's calling on Apple and Google representati ... More >>

Will Al Franken take on Android too?

Steve Jobs, the object of Al Franken's ire.​We took note yesterday that Sen. Al Franken has fired off a nastygram to Apple boss Steve Jobs over published reports that iPhones and iPads were tracking and storing the movements of their users for some purpose yet to be revealed. Now we're wonder ... More >>

Al Franken grills Steve jobs over iPad, iPhone tracking

Al Franken targets Steve Jobs.​Did you know that every time you use your iPhone or iPad, Apple is collecting your exact latitude and longitude, and storing the data in an unencrypted format, without asking you first? It's news to Sen. Al Franken, and he's just fired off a scathing letter to Appl ... More >>

City Pages' Best of the Twin Cities is here: Get the extras

It's 1961, and life is good​We're mad about the Twin Cities. Why? Because it's 1961, and it's a great time to be living the American Dream.Like the TV series Mad Men, this year's Best of the Twin Cities issue takes you back 50 years: Two new sports teams--the Twins and Vikings--are playing at Metr ... More >>

Playboy names University of Wisconsin a Top 10 party school

FacebookSydney Max, of Chicago, representing Wisconsin.​Thousands of horny bros at the University of Wisconsin probably started fingering their iPhones at this news: Playboy has named the land of Bucky Badger America's No. 6 party school. And before you ask, no, the University of Minnesota di ... More >>

Minneapolis 4th most socially networked U.S. city

Are you being followed?​The next time people bump into you downtown while they finger their iPhones, or sit slumped over a laptop at a free-wifi coffeehouse like so many oldsters at casino slot machines, there's a good reason. They're helping Minneapolis become the 4th most socially networked ... More >>

Top 5 dessert trends for 2011--and where to find them

onlyicecream.comIce cream gets an Eastern upgrade.​Anytime science and sweets join forces, we know delicious revelations like iPhone dessert apps are on the horizon. As we say goodbye to January, the Center for Culinary Development (CCD) mixes a few nerdy stats with a lot of yummy findings to brin ... More >>

7 Lady Gaga covers that will make your jaw drop

Photo by Nick Vlcek​All right, Little Monsters, it's only six days until Lady Gaga descends on the Twin Cities for a pair of back-to-back shows at the Xcel Center. Don your blond wig, get gussied up, and slide on your cigarette glasses as we guide you through some of the most outrageous and jaw-dr ... More >>

Doomtree's Paper Tiger steps out with Made Like Us

Producer's solo debut features "stuff too weird for a rap beat"

Taste of Minnesota and Red, White, and Boom punctuate the Week in Food

God bless our freedom from kippers and tripe. ​It's a week of celebrations from Thai cuisine and kale to local food and folk music. Not to mention our independence from bangers and mash and our right to light pyrotechnics. Your Week in Food . . . Monday 6/28 We've come a long way since Swedish ... More >>

"Transdimensional Couriers Union" is hot sci-fi stuff

Dressing all in black will still be cool in 2599​ Having caught opening night of Walking Shadow's The Transdimensional Couriers Union last Friday, the mind still reels with the satisfying complexity of John Heimbuch's script. This time-travel adventure hurls six characters back and forth across ce ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith releases the final chapter of his pop trilogy

Singer-songwriter opens up about life, death, faith, and The Reluctant Graveyard

Jared Allen: I'll break your f*cking neck homeboy [VIDEO]

Jonathan Kaminsky/CP Jared Allen at the RNC, where he didn't kick any homeboy's asses Just because Jared Allen has an iPhone app doesn't mean he's going soft. The Vikings Pro-Bowl defensive end is all over TMZ for an altercation at the Grapevine bar in Scottsdale, Arizona, that was caught on ... More >>

Radio K broadcasting from SXSW this week

The local station is planning to interview a whopping 22 bands, with 6 in-studio performances scheduled.

Dining shutterbugs: When is food photography offensive?

Forgo the flash, for starters...

The Cedar launches new iPhone app

Want to know who's playing the Cedar? There's an app for that.

Hartnett, Prince, Keillor: 10 local celebs we loved this decade

These folks did well in the Aughts, and you can't have them, Hollywood. At least not for keepsies.

Girls sprint to the finish line at the 7th St. Entry

Could the indie darlings live up to the hype that had been heaped upon them?

This Week's "Best of Hot Dish"

If you've been out with H1N1 this week, you missed gross Halloween candy, offensive iPhone apps, and more...

Northeast Social values old-fashioned camaraderie and great dinners

Restaurant is located at one of the city's coolest "new" crossroads

The Southwest Airlines Flirt

Southwest is the ultimate place to pick up women. Flirt to Chicago on the cheap.

Readers respond to City Pages' theater cutbacks

Reader reaction to Strib bankruptcy: Make your voice heard

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The Dead announce a 19-date spring tour

Hope glimmers for frisbee golf and hackeysack as The ... More >>

Reporter's Notebook: The Chase

Afternoon Tea at the St. Paul Hotel

St. Paul takes art to the streets

Breakfast of Champions 7/14: "That Guy" edition

En Vogue are still awesome, endorse Obama

Breakfast of Champions 6/19: Fundamentally changing our legacy

Breakfast of Champions: 3/11

Toys Are Us

'Transformers' turns the blockbuster into one big blur

Spotted: iPhone line, AT&T store, Ridgedale Drive, Mtka, 10:00 a.m.

Free Will Astrology

It Was Free Cuz I Stole It

The year in unfair shares