Cairo (Egypt)

Jawaahir Dance Company: Golden Nights on the Silver Screen

Keith Ellison breaks down in tears at Muslim hearings [VIDEO]

Ellison breaks down.​Rep. Keith Ellison spent weeks deriding the congressional hearings that opened today on radical Muslims, orchestrated by Rep. Peter King of New York, as little more than an attempt to spread fear and hatred of a religious minority. When it came his turn to testify and de ... More >>

Téa Obreht

Ellison breaks down.​Rep. Keith Ellison spent weeks deriding the congressional hearings that opened today on radical Muslims, orchestrated by Rep. Peter King of New York, as little more than an attempt to spread fear and hatred of a religious minority. When it came his turn to testify and de ... More >>

Rep. Keith Ellison: Muslim Brotherhood irrelevant [TRANSCRIPT]

Ellison: Ignore the Muslim Brotherhood.​Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has made a run for the border after three weeks of protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Egyptians have thrown off decades of autocratic, humiliating rule. The country seems poised for the advent of democracy. Good, ... More >>

13 songs for Egypt

​This is not an ideal time to work, live, or even to be within a stone's throw of Egypt. Why? It's complicated.

Michele Bachmann concentrates on district work ... in Hawaii

Apparently speaking in Hawaii is part of Bachmann's "district work"​Michele Bachmann has apparently been inundated this week with calls from reporters wanting her take on the freedom-loving protesters in Cairo. But our most famous congresswoman just isn't picking up the line. She's busy with " ... More >>

Grilled Upside-Down Pizza--great for dinner ... and dessert!

Fresh bread from fired ovens in Cairo​It was a great way to wake up. Each morning the scent of fresh bread would waft through the window like a large pita bread alarm clock. Eventually I would get to know the guys who worked the large ovens with their bare hands, starting in the middle of the ... More >>

Time of the Comet and The Revenant: Bonus MSPIFF reviews

Fresh bread from fired ovens in Cairo​It was a great way to wake up. Each morning the scent of fresh bread would waft through the window like a large pita bread alarm clock. Eventually I would get to know the guys who worked the large ovens with their bare hands, starting in the middle of the ... More >>

Daniel Klein's The Perennial Plate

Klein slaughters a pig, taps maple trees, and more

The Imperfect Image: The Art of the Handcrafted Print

Klein slaughters a pig, taps maple trees, and more

Minneapolis Somali community facing dark web of murders

They came to escape civil war, so why are they killing each other in the streets?

Film Highlight: OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

They came to escape civil war, so why are they killing each other in the streets?

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They came to escape civil war, so why are they killing each other in the streets?

The Battle of Guantánamo Bay

Attorney Joe Margulies on his new Gitmo book—and his Supreme Court win over the Bush crew

The Revolution Is My Boyfriend!

Queer cinema gets radical in the latest Flaming Film Festival

Pomp and Circumstance

The Millennium Falcon: Geraldine McMillian sings the heartbreak of an Ethiopian slave girl in the Minnesota Opera's lavish production of Aida

City Pages Darwin Awards

The Millennium Falcon: Geraldine McMillian sings the heartbreak of an Ethiopian slave girl in the Minnesota Opera's lavish production of Aida

BACK TO LIFE

A new generation of AIDS drugs called protease inhibitors is having dramatic effects--perhaps even pointing to the day when AIDS will be a manageable chronic disease like diabetes. But for a lot of people who had readied themselves to die,