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  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Twin Cities 4th-most peaceful metro; Minnesota 4th-most peaceful state, study finds [GRAPHICS]

    It doesn't always seem like it, but Minnesota is one of the most peaceful places in America.That's the conclusion emerging from the Institute for Economics and Peace's United States Peace Index 2012. The study looks at five factors -- the homicide rate, violent crime rate, incarceration rate, police ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Mark Dayton wants shutdown contingency to include payments to health providers

    ​Gov. Mark Dayton will expanded his list of essential services in a possible state government shutdown today, petitioning Ramsey County Court to include payments to health care and financial assistance workers providing services to those on state aid. "We recognize the lack of assured provide ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Norb Anderson recovers "Blackie," the missing steer sculpture

    Image by Charles & Clint on FlickrThis is a REAL steer. Norb Anderson lost his fake one.​Three months ago, someone cruelly stole the 500-lb. fiberglass likeness of an Angus steer. Now "Blackie" is back. The State Fair parade staple was stolen a week before Minnesota's big event. Blackie was ... More >>

  • Movies

    September 15, 2010

    Ben Affleck in The Town

    An aggressively Boston movie with bank robber hijinx

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    MIA exhibit 'Embarrassment of Riches' opens Friday

    Martin Parr, Cambridge, England, from "Luxury" series, 2005 (printed 2008), The Linda and Lawrence Perlman Photography Endowment 2009.42.2​​Starting this Friday through January 2, 2011, museum-goers at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will get a chance to witness how wealth--or lack there of--h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Newsweek calls Southwest High School the best in Minnesota

    ​Never mind the crowded classrooms, the ancient facilities and the general lack of college campus-like opulence compared to its palatial suburban rivals: Southwest High School in Minneapolis is the best high school in Minnesota, according to Newsweek. Take that, cake eaters! The very best in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    11 die in three days on Minnesota roads

    Photo: Flora/Flickr​This makes a person sit up and take notice: Eleven people died in accidents on Minnesota roads this weekend, according to the State Patrol. Friday: A 16-year-old girl, who's name has not been released pending a police investigation, was behind the wheel of a pickup truck ... More >>

  • Arts

    January 27, 2010

    Theater Spotlight: Rock 'n' Roll

    Photo: Flora/Flickr​This makes a person sit up and take notice: Eleven people died in accidents on Minnesota roads this weekend, according to the State Patrol. Friday: A 16-year-old girl, who's name has not been released pending a police investigation, was behind the wheel of a pickup truck ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    St. Paul teacher accused of drugging, molesting 12-year-old girl

    Robert Howard Swanson is accused of adding diazepam to the girl's drink without her knowledge.

  • News

    November 11, 2009

    Forget naughty or nice, Santa is more concerned with swine flu

    Plus: Minneapolis mayor wins election, immediately pursues higher office

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Santa doesn't want to catch H1N1 from your kid

    Just think of all of the children who won't get presents Christmas morn if Santa is stuck in the Emergency Room with an epic fever.

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Dark Dark Dark to join Why? on tour, announce new 7"

    The tour is another step forward for the up-and-coming locals.

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    28 Minn. schools make Newsweek's list of top public high schools

    Check the list to see if your high school made the cut.

  • News

    January 14, 2009

    Christ's Household of Faith acts like a deadbeat dad

    The St. Paul church has fought for 20 years to avoid paying for a former member's kids

  • News

    September 24, 2008

    Simon Says

    Motivational speaker Russell Simon made a career out of imploring teens to steer clear of drugs and alcohol. So why did he go on a drunken, meth-fueled rampage?

  • Music

    April 4, 2007

    Elvis in Wonderland

    Solo artist falls down rabbit hole, finds himself part of My Morning Jacket's opening band

  • Arts

    December 27, 2006

    Curtain Call

    Let's bring back the year's best (and worst) performances for one more round of applause (and jeers)

  • Movies

    November 1, 2006

    On the Road

    Sacha Baron Cohen's howlingly funny mockumentary goes looking for America

  • Movies

    February 15, 2006

    Revival Meeting

    Can rep cinema's old-time religion be resurrected in the soulless Netflix age?

  • Columns

    February 1, 2006

    On the Corner

    Four questions for the freeway exit-ramp beggars

  • Arts

    January 25, 2006

    K Street

    Jeune Lune does right by Kafka's unfinished 'Amerika'

  • Books

    July 27, 2005

    Achilles Has Some Issues He'd Like To Talk About

    The myths go modern in 'Songs on Bronze'

  • Arts

    October 6, 2004

    Why Is Sloth a Mortal Sin?

    Was Charles Macomb Flandrau the father of modern Minnesota letters--or just a literary layabout?

  • Arts

    September 29, 2004

    Man Bites Dog

    Kama Ginkas devours Chekhov's 'Lady with a Lapdog'

  • Music

    July 9, 2003

    Motion City Soundtrack: I Am the Movie

    Kama Ginkas devours Chekhov's 'Lady with a Lapdog'

  • News

    June 5, 2002

    John Berryman Leapt Here

    Mapping the literary landmarks of the Twin Cities

  • Books

    September 13, 2000

    Cowadunga

    Did the power that lights your lava lamp begin as a pile of cow manure?

  • News

    March 8, 2000

    Living Against the Law

    Public camping has been prohibited in Minneapolis for years. Trouble is, for Westside and Chris, Little John and Gnat, there's no place else like home.

  • News

    December 1, 1999

    Ink by the Teacup

    Dodie Shallman had something to say about Cambridge's scandalous debt, beastly taxes, and the clowns who got the town into this mess. With the dirt-dishing Observer, the doyenne turned her crusade into news.

  • Music

    July 14, 1999

    Round Robyn

    English pop's square peg finds a new circle

  • News

    February 17, 1999

    South of Nowhere

    Howling coyotes, lows in the 60s, and neighbors from Hibbing: Minnesota snowbirds roost in the desert

  • Feature

    September 1, 1998

    Scan It: The Truth in Black and White

    Howling coyotes, lows in the 60s, and neighbors from Hibbing: Minnesota snowbirds roost in the desert

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    Not in our Backyard

    Scott Paulson was sick of his stepson's complaints about a white posse beating up his black friends. Then the phalanx of trucks pulled up on his lawn.

  • Music

    June 24, 1998

    He Made Us Say Ugh

    Scott Paulson was sick of his stepson's complaints about a white posse beating up his black friends. Then the phalanx of trucks pulled up on his lawn.

  • News

    June 10, 1998

    The Last Picture Show

    Movie theaters used to have majestic screens, rocking chairs, and real butter. Some still do.

  • News

    October 1, 1997

    Lone Wolf No More

    The timber wolf, along with baby harp seals, was an environmental-movement poster child. But biologists have found wolves don't need wilderness to prosper. They need, simply, something to eat and to be more or less left alone.

  • News

    May 21, 1997

    Shock Treatment

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

  • News

    May 14, 1997

    Widow's Lament

    In 1956, Anna Elisabeth Colsch married a GI from the Frankfurt Army base and followed him to Minneapolis. He died in a car crash a few years later. Or so she was told.

  • News

    October 2, 1996

    WAKING UP WITH THE HOUSE ON FIRE

    A conversation with psychologist James Hillman-- about kids, shrinks, mythology, and death.

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