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Twin Cities among best metros for the young, broke, and single, study says

Young, single, broke, and live in the Twin Cities? According to a new study put together by the Money Under 30 blog, you're probably spending less nights falling asleep by yourself while watching Netflix after a dinner of Ramen noodles than your peers in most other cities.SEE ALSO: Coffee shop first ... More >>

Minneapolis is one of the most sinful cities in the country, study says

Minnesota might be nice, but a new study concludes that Minneapolis is actually quite naughty.SEE ALSO: Woodbury and Edina are top extramarital affair locales in Twin Cities, says AshleyMadison.comThe City of Lakes rated as the third-most sinful city in the nation in the Movoto real estate blog's li ... More >>

Medicare fraudsters swindle millions from the feds

Hospitals, doctors, and drug dealers have made Medicare the nation's sweetest crime, but the feds are trying to shutter the door

Minneapolis/St. Paul among nation's "drunkest cities"

We're making a splash with craft cocktails, definitely have a lot going on in the world of breweries, we get amazing turnout at beer festivals, and take pride in the fact that our new stadium has much more than just Bud Light on tap, but where does Minneapolis/St.Paul fall in the ranks of America's ... More >>

Man accused of threatening Bachmann: "White [Re]publican parasites are going to get a bullet"

Ronnie McMillian, a 27-year-old New Jersey resident, is in federal custody for allegedly calling prominent national Republicans, chastising their positions on GLBT rights, and threatening them.SEE ALSO: Michele Bachmann waves bag of gay-unfriendly Chick-fil-A [VIDEO]One of his targets was Michele Ba ... More >>

Olympian Seimone Augustus on being an openly gay pro athlete [VIDEO]

SEE ALSO:- Best Lynx Player - 2012: Seimone AugustusAs the U.S. Olympic women's basketball team prepares to defend its 2008 gold against France on Saturday (3 p.m. CST), one of its players, MN Lynx star Seimone Augustus, bears another distinction.Of 10,000 international athletes competing in the Lon ... More >>

Bassnectar unveils 2012 North American tour dates: Minneapolis in November

See Also:Bassnectar at Epic: Halloween costumes and crazinessBassnectar blows up the VarsityAfter a headlining slot at Lollapalooza next week, the sonic thrust of Bassnectar takes over North America this fall. Every bit of junk in Target Center's trunk is gonna get rattled in the process.Touring on ... More >>

Jason Segel in Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Endearing stoner comedy of maternal disappointment

Dawes and Blitzen Trapper to co-headline First Ave on November 4

​Roots rock fans, get ready: Dawes and Blitzen Trapper just announced a co-headlining bill that hits First Avenue on November 4th. Dawes will be continuing a seemingly never-ending tour behind their sophomore release, Nothing Is Wrong, which came out earlier this summer. They're also still rid ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Wiz Khalifa, Rihanna, Florence & the Machine, and more

James Cotton Band, Charlie Musselwhite

Byronte Juwann Reed's two months of pimping lands him 15 years behind bars

Time and the law were not on Reed's side.​Byronte Juwann Reed didn't want to face the music. For two months in 2008, he held a teenage girl more or less captive while he sold her for sex out of his St. Paul home, including one foray to Chicago. But his brief shot at pimping turned out to b ... More >>

Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys

Two Door Cinema Club, the Dandy Warhols, and more

The Last Exorcism is a well-paced tease

Everything's gone to hell in Little Nell's world

National Poetry Slam 2010 day one wrap-up, day two recommendations

Ward RubrechtSlam poet Guante​It was a crazy night at the Artists' Quarter, one of the six venues running concurrent bouts for last night's portion of the National Poetry Slam 2010. An hour before doors opened folks were already cramming into the narrow corridor outside the venue, anxious to get g ... More >>

Peter Wolf Crier announce tour with Heartless Bastards

Photo by Stacy Schwartz​It's going to be a constructive summer for rising locals Peter Wolf Crier, whose debut album, Inter-Be, will be re-released by Jagjaguwar later this month. The duo has a CD-release show at the Turf Club on May 21, followed by a massive tour that will take them across the Mi ... More >>

Taylor Swift sells out Xcel

Photo by Steve Cohen​ SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT. I'm worried for li'l Taylor Swift. Her last American tour sold out all across the board. In fact, she sold out Staples Center and Madison Square Garden in less than two minutes. This tour? Also sold out sold out sold out. Appears the next show wit ... More >>

David Simon's Treme

New HBO series from The Wire creator honors New Orleans

James Cotton Band

Ex-wrestling champ Savannah Jack living quiet life in Minneapolis

Now-handicapped UWF title holder says he had the time of his life

Dwayne Dopsie & Zydeco Hellraisers

Payback Is a Motherland

How African hip hop "gives back" to two continents

New Orleans House Party: Bring in the lumberjacks

Rev. Charlie Jackson, R.I.P.

The Diaspora, Blowing Down the Road

Katrina and the lessons of the 1927 flood

New Orleans: Survivor Stories

Beyond soundbites: detailed first-hand accounts from people trapped in the city after Katrina--what they did, what they saw, how they stayed alive.

Survivor stories: "We gave away everything we had"

The long-term plight of the evacuees

Survivor stories: From the roof, she could see everything

Survivor stories: New Orleans journo and former CP staffer Katy Reckdahl on the view from Touro Infirmary

I get up early, early in the morning...

Survivor stories: Those armed "looters" kept many alive at convention center

Many Thousands Gone

The first disaster was the hurricane. The second was the federal government's response.

More scenes from Lake New Orleans

New Orleans Saints setting up operations in San Antonio

Get Stuffed

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is sometimes hard to swallow

Artists of the Year

Rack 'em up

All Jimmy "The Kid" Wetch wants is to play in peace---the rack, the cue, and the cool green felt. But there are so many distractions.

Burning Down the Road

Two decades after his death, Elvis lights out for the territory.