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Sugar back catalogue to be re-issued on Merge Records

While Twin City music fans wait patiently to see if Bob Mould ever announces a local live performance of his classic Sugar record Copper Blue in its entirety, Merge Records announced that they will be re-issuing and remastering the band's stellar but all-too-brief back catalogue on July 24. A re ... More >>

Van Halen at Xcel Energy Center, 5/19/12

Van HalenXcel Energy Center, St. PaulSaturday, May 19, 2012The David Lee Roth-led version of Van Halen is a throwback to a time when arena rock actually rocked. Seven albums worth of great material, combined with an apparently sobered-up Eddie Van Halen sounding better than ever these days, meant th ... More >>

Mid West Music Fest, Day Two: The 4onthefloor, Rogue Valley, Ruben, and Midwest Dilemma

Mid West Music Fest, Day Two: Featuring the 4onthefloor, Rogue Valley, Ruben, and Midwest DilemmaWinona, MNFriday, April 20, 2012See also:Mid West Music Fest Day One with Tapes 'n TapesMid West Music Fest, Day Three: Kimya Dawson, the MelismaticsFriday at the Mid West Music Fest brought sunny skies ... More >>

St. Paul Grill now serving 'rum flights'

Nothing fits together quite like alcohol and science. But our favorite drinking game of watching the Discovery Channel and taking a shot every time we hear "Einstein's theory of relativity" is getting a little old. Thankfully, the St. Paul Grill has a new way of combining two of our favorite interes ... More >>

Revelation 2012

What if the apocalypse already happened?

Jose Francisco Gomez on 'America's Most Wanted' for stepdaughter's rape

Jose Francisco Gomez is accused of raping his 7-year-old stepdaughter.​Jose Francisco Gomez turned to God and became a Pentecostal minister, then he betrayed those who trusted him by raping his stepdaughter for years, beginning when she was seven, in the late 1990s. Now, his face and identity are ... More >>

Whiskey in a can causes controversy even before it hits shelves

Canned whiskey: There's a first time for everything.​Continuing the theme of crazily alcoholic beverages in cans, Panama-based Scottish Spirits LTD is now offering whiskey in 12-ounce cans. That's eight shots, apparently intended to be shared by three people. And we thought Four Loko was bad... ... More >>

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band

Canned whiskey: There's a first time for everything.​Continuing the theme of crazily alcoholic beverages in cans, Panama-based Scottish Spirits LTD is now offering whiskey in 12-ounce cans. That's eight shots, apparently intended to be shared by three people. And we thought Four Loko was bad... ... More >>

Red Pens, Danzig and more

Canned whiskey: There's a first time for everything.​Continuing the theme of crazily alcoholic beverages in cans, Panama-based Scottish Spirits LTD is now offering whiskey in 12-ounce cans. That's eight shots, apparently intended to be shared by three people. And we thought Four Loko was bad... ... More >>

Janelle Monae, Matt & Kim, and more

Canned whiskey: There's a first time for everything.​Continuing the theme of crazily alcoholic beverages in cans, Panama-based Scottish Spirits LTD is now offering whiskey in 12-ounce cans. That's eight shots, apparently intended to be shared by three people. And we thought Four Loko was bad... ... More >>

Gucci Mane

Canned whiskey: There's a first time for everything.​Continuing the theme of crazily alcoholic beverages in cans, Panama-based Scottish Spirits LTD is now offering whiskey in 12-ounce cans. That's eight shots, apparently intended to be shared by three people. And we thought Four Loko was bad... ... More >>

Mathstatic, Time Squid & more: Twin Cities' live visual jockeys talk shop

​Maybe you've seen them, wild-eyed and laser-focused behind a rig with a million glowing things. Somewhere in the room the image of a log floating through space gets metamorphed into a burst of geometric shapes in time with the music and you think "holy shit." We wanted to get into the heads of th ... More >>

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big.

Chili-coated candies: Which sweat-inducing sweet is the best?

Photo illustration by A.J. Olmscheid​To warm up to National Candy Month, this week's Food Fight is between a few chili-coated candies from Dulceria La Piñata at Mercado Central on Lake Street. Read on to find out which one can take the heat, and which was best left with the Play-Doh.

Dawn Droulliard of Fabulous Catering: Chef Chat

courtesy of Dawn Drouillard​ Dawn Droulliard, chef and owner of Fabulous Catering, is not your average chef. Formerly a singer in the bands Interstate Judy and That's What You Get, Droulliard has a rocking style that has translated itself into her kitchen.After moving to the Twin Cities in 1991, D ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain

courtesy of Dawn Drouillard​ Dawn Droulliard, chef and owner of Fabulous Catering, is not your average chef. Formerly a singer in the bands Interstate Judy and That's What You Get, Droulliard has a rocking style that has translated itself into her kitchen.After moving to the Twin Cities in 1991, D ... More >>

Trevor Cook pleads guilty in $190-million Ponzi scheme

Photo: XOZ/Flickr​Trevor Cook pleaded guilty today in federal court to leading a $190-million Ponzi scheme based in part out of the Van Dusen mansion in Minneapolis that obliterated the investments of at least 1,000 victims while he lived high on the hog and paid off gambling debts. Appearin ... More >>

Things to Come: 21st Century Dizzy

Photo: XOZ/Flickr​Trevor Cook pleaded guilty today in federal court to leading a $190-million Ponzi scheme based in part out of the Van Dusen mansion in Minneapolis that obliterated the investments of at least 1,000 victims while he lived high on the hog and paid off gambling debts. Appearin ... More >>

Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell

Photo: XOZ/Flickr​Trevor Cook pleaded guilty today in federal court to leading a $190-million Ponzi scheme based in part out of the Van Dusen mansion in Minneapolis that obliterated the investments of at least 1,000 victims while he lived high on the hog and paid off gambling debts. Appearin ... More >>

Utne spreads visionaries via cool Twitter tool

Utne's list of visionaries on TweepML is here. It's an eclectic bunch.

"Illegal Alien" costume likely made in Mexico or Central America

The costume banned by Target and embraced by anti-immigration activists probably wasn't Made in the USA.

Postville raids lead to lack of kosher food

The Elephant in Mill City: The 1892 Republican Convention

New Riders of the Purple Sage

US Air Guitar Championships: Minnesota Regional

Sightings

Janine Di Giovanni

High Living

Lake Street's Los Andes Makes the High-Altitude Cuisine of Ecuador and Colombia Accessible, Affordable, and Awfully Good

Concert Highlights for the Week of August 15 - 21

Lake Street's Los Andes Makes the High-Altitude Cuisine of Ecuador and Colombia Accessible, Affordable, and Awfully Good

Kill the Messenger

The tragic death of one of America's most important investigative journalists

7/31 Morning Communiqué

The tragic death of one of America's most important investigative journalists

Dragon's Den reopens in New Orleans

The tragic death of one of America's most important investigative journalists

I'd Rather Kiss a Wookie

Will someone please tell JoJo that the world is a greedy, vicious place?

Talk Of The Town

A trifecta of impending restaurant openings, and one departure

The Empire Strikes Back

What do you do after writing the most popular leftist mindscrew of the decade? A sequel.

Mexican Revolution

Pre-Columbian, super-authentic Mexican where eat street meets downtown

High Steaks Gambit

Will "crossroads cuisine" reinvent both St. Louis Park and the Brazilian barbecue?

They're Always Scheming Against Us

Welcome to siege culture

Mother and Child and War

What can you tell your kids? Anything but the truth.

Blessed Peacemakers

They'd seem quaint if they weren't so eloquent: Meet the University of St. Thomas's loudest rabble-rousers

The Chino Syndrome

They'd seem quaint if they weren't so eloquent: Meet the University of St. Thomas's loudest rabble-rousers

Sound Check

They'd seem quaint if they weren't so eloquent: Meet the University of St. Thomas's loudest rabble-rousers

Patricia Henley: Hummingbird House

They'd seem quaint if they weren't so eloquent: Meet the University of St. Thomas's loudest rabble-rousers

Sister Soldier

Barely two months out of prison, the Twin Cities' most notorious nun is headed for trouble again

Family is Relative

If in America a young man moves in with a fifty-year-old woman to whom he is not related, we call it suspicious. But in the Dominican Republic, they simply call it family

Let Them Eat Shit

Minnesota beef producers can begin using radiation to kill bacteria and extend the shelf life of everything from hamburger to filet mignon. But a number of scientists, scrappy idealists, and small farmers still say it's not a good idea.

Drugs, Contras, and the CIA:

Press Covers for the Agency's Honor

Atun Alba:

Cocaine, Tuna, and Free Trade

It Sticks and Sticks

Cocaine, Tuna, and Free Trade

The Age of Plagues

It wasn't that long ago that medicine declared a victory over infectious disease. Now a raft of new and mutating bugs are at the door, and a declining public health system is in no shape to fight them.