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2012 Artists of the Year

From poets and directors to comedians and dancers, the Twin Cities are teeming with creativity

Best Twin Cities concerts 2012: Staff lists

Here are the raw lists from many of City Pages' contributing writers and photograghers for the finest shows they attended this year. Hint: It's all over the place!See Also:Best Twin Cities concerts 201250 Awesome Concert Photos from 2012Best Twin Cities songs 2012: Staff lists Best Twin Cities album ... More >>

Top 10 Middle Eastern restaurants in the Twin Cities

Ah, the cradle of civilization: birthplace of modern agriculture, organized religion, and falafel. The Midwest isn't exactly a Mecca of, well, Mecca-inspired cuisine, but we do have a handful of Middle Eastern restaurants here in the Twin Cities worth seeking out when those kabob cravings strike. He ... More >>

John Mark Nelson CD release at 7th St. Entry, 8/12/12

John Mark NelsonWith Observer Drift7th St. Entry, MinneapolisSunday, August 12, 2012See Also:John Mark Nelson channels folk-pop sophisticationJohn Mark Nelson makes early Minneapolis impact via BandcampObserver Drift making chill waves with escapist debutAlthough the 7th St. Entry doesn't do "New Ba ... More >>

Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles embrace maturity on Heat

Fourth album from the Twin Cities sextet

Learn to Be Latina at Mixed Blood Theatre

This equal-opportunity offender goes for the comic throat

Best of Coachella 2012: Sunday, April 22

See also: Our complete Coachella coverage By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

Out There 2012 at the Walker

Stage artists converge for experimental theater festival

Best nationally released albums of 2011

​It's a good thing we waited until the last week of 2011 to publish our final best-album lists, since a few bands managed to eke out stellar releases just this December (the Roots' undun and the Black Keys' El Camino in particular made their way onto a few staffers' lists). With only a few da ... More >>

Weekend Checklist: Andrew Bird, Doomtree Blowout, Foster the People, Jingle Ball

​ So much good music happening this weekend; here's an overview of the best bets.

Carlos directed by Oliver Assayas

From dusk to dawn with a notorious terrorist

Cloud Cult's Scott West paints with rhythm and story

Photo by Cody York​Scott West may be best known for the live paintings he creates during Cloud Cult concerts, but this weekend he has his own solo show at Tarnish & Gold Gallery featuring studio paintings he's been working on since the beginning of 2010. He quit his creative design job in Janu ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain

The Chord & the Fawn celebrate their ukulele love on M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

Debut spells promise for this Twin Cities duo

The Mountain Goats

Snoop Dogg, the Sounds, White Denim, and more

Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles: Special Party Time for Everybody

iPod Hijack! Doomtree's Top 10 Most Played

Hall & Oates, Lazerbeak? Really?

Waltz with Bashir documentary uses animation to cover tough subject

Serious 'toon explores how mind copes with repressed violence

She & Him and more

888 Fest

Rabih Alameddine

Cathy Sultan

Cathy Sultan

Riot at the Bedlam

Do You Dare Enter the World of �Idigaragua�?

More Shriek Than Shrek

Middle West, Meet Middle East

You say the news out of Beirut and Baghdad isn't good? How about a poem?

The Personal is Geopolitical

Horror and grace at the Third Annual Arab Film Festival

A Woman's Work is Never Done

Walker Art Center's "Women With Vision" Salutes Female Production on Both Sides of the Camera

Patricia Sarrafian Ward: The Bullet Collection

Operation Paper Tiger

Fighting terrorism with press releases

Schlock and Awe

The media march off to war with Iraq: A TV glossary

Mid-East Summit In Midwest

Minnesota's first Arab film festival speaks louder than CNN

Death Warmed Over

Novelist William Kent Krueger's fictional northwoods town is a hotbed of racial tension and cold-blooded murder

Out of the Desert

A local literary journal provides a haven for writing on the Arab-American experience

All in the Family

Jennifer Fox's intimate nine-hour saga, An American Love Story, continues the legacy of domestic documentaries

Robert Polidori, Real Estate Photographer

Friendly Fire

When 12 COPS arrived at Andre Madison's house for a routine drug bust, they wandered into a ferocious gunfight with themselves.

Those White House Klatsches: Who Went, What They Got

Pal Jacob