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The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

A filmmaker from Minnesota tells the story behind a lost animated masterpiece, plus hits and misses of the fest by our critics

Haters Club on hating, the Beatles, and surfing

In a music scene built around Minnesota nice, it's risky to name your band Haters Club, but the Minneapolis group is spreading their "hate" all over town. The Golden Age of Haters Club is a collection of songs that sit comfortably together, even when they shouldn't. With dynamic beats and abysmal hu ... More >>

Bat for Lashes get semi-spiritural at the Varsity

Even Jesus and Mary attended the show. Both approved.

The Basilica to bless bicycles on Sunday!

Want to get your bike past St. Peter? Then let a priest sprinkle it with holy water.

Pachyderm Studio wants to save the world, but can it keep the lights on?

The beleaguered music-maker's Mecca has become the Temple of the White Elephant

Old Glory: David Hansen reviews the Sammy Hagar RNC kick-off

Romeo Castellucci: Driving Theater Arts With Imagery

Broken Saints

Paul Fonfara finds life ain't easy for a man with haunted visions

Sleazy Does It

'Jerry Springer the Opera' Is Gleefully Profane

'Evan' Can Wait

Why in God's name did Steve Carell take the paycheck?

Mighty Heart, Mightier Spotlight

Angelina Jolie kidnaps Daniel Pearl's movie

Pray for me, Frank Stallone

Embattled boxing commissioner goes 10 rounds with Satan

Free Will Astrology

Free Will Astrology

Knocked Up

Conception is far from immaculate in teenybop 'Nativity Story'

Songs That Fall from the Sky

Meet the Handsome Family: The story of the band that forgot time

Savage Love

12/13: Morning Communique

Crime blotter: Holy theft

The Weakest Shade of Blue

Eliza Gilkyson peeks out from the foxhole

Everyone Goes to the Mercado

Why Not Nicky?

Monkey business

I'm My Own Grandpa

Sally Wingert stars in a one-woman family reunion

Doll Parts

Jennifer Tilly fakes it so real, she's beyond fake

This Middle Finger Is Pointed At You

'Chicano Visions' flips the bird at the traditional high-art canon

Indecent Acts

Theatre Latté Da tries something wilde; Pillsbury House goes to war

Pushing Tin

Nestled in the middle of the Twin Cities, the tiny trailer-park city of Hilltop (pop. 766) has been getting shoved around since the day it was born

South Park

The Walker's "Ultrabaroque" frolics in a funhouse of Latin American art

The Phantom Menses

It's Only the Blood of Brothers That Flows Through Tolkien's Episode I

Ho Ho Hum

Brave New Workshop Scrimps on the Gift of Laughter; Words Fail the Cheap Theatre

Faith, Hope, Compassion

With her latest novel, The Weight of All Things, Sandra Benítez argues for the redemptive powers of narrative confession

Salt of the Earth

With The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Pier Paolo Pasolini likened the Messiah's sacred flock to the lumpen proletariat

Art for Theory's Sake

An abstruse exhibit at the Walker pushes the art of painting out of its gilded frame and into the pages of a textbook

The Good Book

Where to find Yr Eglwys Yng Nghymru O'r Goncwest Hyd At Y Diwygiad Protestannaiddand other mysteries of the faith

In a Gadda Da Vida

Outward Spiral's queer Creation; Park Square's suffering sisters

Our Fears, Ourselves

Sparing our kids from our terrors

Making It Big

July Snippets from Out and About

Breaking Away

Though weighted down with everything from CD players and wine glasses to Mexican-flag fringing, lowrider bikes are a fast way to get noticed

Angels on Parade

Santacruzan, the annual Filipino festival, lights up the Majestic Ballroom

Live Through This

Cut short: Eamonn Owens and Stephen Rea in Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy

Where's Walden

Terri Sutton scours the concrete for something wild.

So Very Callas

La Vampira: Maria Callas is baaaack.

Mother Superior

The terrible compassion of Mary Jo Copeland.

Shock Treatment

It doesn't really matter whether he overtakes KQ and Tom Barnard. Either way, Howard Stern wins. And local radio loses.

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