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SXSW announces first 2012 showcasing bands, including Minneapolitans Howler

​Oh lordy. It isn't time to think about SXSW already, is it? It seem like all that long ago that Minneapolis bands were swarming the streets of Austin, Texas in search of free beer and food trucks, and when Gimme Noise threw our first-ever Minnesota music showcase with First Avenue.But according t ... More >>

Australians ask RT Rybak about bicycles, snow

​Minneapolis has the well-earned reputation as the top biking spot in America. In fact, that rep has apparently spread all the way across the globe, and now the Australian media has come, like anthropologists studying some far-off tribe, to learn about our frigid little bicycling paradise.Of cours ... More >>

Spider John Koerner documentary screens at the Trylon

Daniel Corrigan​Whatever revolutions Minnesota has seen in rock and folk music for the last five decades, guitarist and blues shouter Spider John Koerner has witnessed them all and, more than likely, helped bring them about. A major influence not only on Minnesota's most famous musical son Bob Dyl ... More >>

Critics Picks: Bruce Springsteen and more

Faraway, So Close

Doc-Maker Don McGlynn Draws the reclusive 'Spider' out of his web

It's a Wrap

The Mpls/St. Paul International Film Festival swaddles the Cities in cinema