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Pearson acquires Bit-O-Honey: A reaction from a local fanatic

As the unrivaled number-one fan of Bit-O-Honey in the Twin Cities--and possibly the universe--it's hard to characterize the complex set of emotions I was confronted with Wednesday upon learning that Pearson Candy Company has acquired Bit-O-Honey. The St. Paul based confectioner famous for it's Salte ... More >>

The Fattenin' Frogs: Our hearts are in the music scene of the '60s

Don't tell Minneapolis band the Fattenin' Frogs it's 2013; it would be a shame to break their hearts that the '60s folk movement has passed. Yet, that is exactly where their sound lives. The band's new single "Comin' Home" draws from the never-ending momentum of the banjo as much as the wistful soun ... More >>

American Revival: If it doesn't work, we aren't afraid to let go

Indie-rock with traces of country is a tough genre to innovate in, and even tougher to simply retread the same ground. Minneapolis band American Revival doesn't reinvent the indie-rock wheel, but it does add something immensely enjoyable to the genre, which is more than good enough. Their new EP, Th ... More >>

Night Beds: I wrote melancholy, old-man sap music at Johnny Cash's house

Winston Yellen has done something amazing. Under the moniker Night Beds, the 23-year-old has released a debut that sounds like nothing else. If you're into categories, we'll go ahead and say Country Sleep is alt-country, and then we'll stop talking about it, okay? Because the label doesn't matter on ... More >>

Mpls cop Bradley Schnickel arrested on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct involving pre-teen girl [UPDATE]

32-year-old Andover resident Bradley Schnickel has been arrested on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct involving a girl younger than 13, according to an Anoka County press release.SEE ALSO: Rep. Gauthier, 56, claims rest-stop oral sex with Craigslist boy, 17, was consensualSchnickel is a Minneapol ... More >>

YumMi Banh Mi is selling its food trailer. Here's your chance.

Food trucks may be in hibernation (although not all: Chef Driven Co, Tot Boss, Fork in the Road, and a couple others are still braving the frigid temps). However, street eats season is just a couple of months away. Have you got a great mobile food idea? We found a trailer that's looking for a new ow ... More >>

Charlie Pauken spills how he created Stories About Prince

On Thursday, Gimme Noise shared Stories About Prince with the world. For a follow-up, here's an interview with its creator Charlie Paukin, who moved to Minneapolis since 2005 "to go to school, majoring in a subject that I haven't put to use since graduating cum laude." And he got enough inquiries ab ... More >>

All the Right Moves on Warped Tour, David Hasselhoff, and burning pianos

You may hear traces of Yellowcard in Minneapolis band All the Right Moves -- perhaps it's the violin implemented by both bands. The young band has crafted an album that hits the spot if you're looking for a guilty pleasure pop-punk to get lost in. When Your Compass Breaks is All the Right Moves' ven ... More >>

Rep. Gauthier, 56, claims rest-stop oral sex with Craigslist boy, 17, was consensual

SEE ALSO:-- Rep. Kerry Gauthier under investigation for "suspicious activity" at highway rest stop-- Rep. Kerry Gauthier reportedly sexed 17-year-old boy in Duluth-area rest stopRep. Kerry Gauthier, D-Duluth, won't face charges for having oral sex with a minor at the Thompson Hill rest stop near Dul ... More >>

2011/12 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition

The Lumineers on Craigslist, Denver, and Basilica Block Party

See Also:Basilica Block Party 2012 lineupThe Avett Brothers' Seth Avett on Rick Rubin, political fans, and the band's legacyThe Lumineers have recently exploded onto the indie music scene, seemingly popping up out of nowhere (well, Denver, Colorado, to be exact) and giving fans some irresistible tra ... More >>

Magic Mike's naked ploy

As male strippers, Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey reveal everything but insight

Weird Al Yankovic at State Theatre, 5/3/2012

Weird Al YankovicState Theatre, MinneapolisThursday, May 3, 2012Can anyone make the accordion look sexy? One man certainly can. With a production crew, band, and a collection of songs that spans 30-plus years in tow, Weird Al Yankovic shared with Minneapolis his comedic brand of parody music after s ... More >>

So You Want to Start a Food Truck

Owners share tricks of the mobile-kitchen trade

Beth Schapiro responds to story debunking her child prostitute study: "We stand fully behind our work"

Beth Schapiro​This week's cover story takes a look at research conducted by the Atlanta-based Schapiro Group, which claims to track incidents of juvenile prostitution. The problem is that the claim is based on a seriously flawed methodology--the numbers presented to news outlets as hard statistic ... More >>

Have you seen this dog?

Pendoodle​Flint Keller's cell phone rang yesterday morning while he was teaching his fourth grade class at Richardson Elementary School. It was his wife, Jenny. She said Roseville police had just called. They thought they'd found the family dog, Pendoodle. The Keller family's hunt for the dog si ... More >>

Brother Ali, Roma di Luna added to the Current's 6th birthday bash lineup

​Now that the show is good and sold out, the Current has unveiled the final two acts of its five-band local bill in the Mainroom on Saturday, January 29. Brother Ali and Roma di Luna will join Free Energy, Jeremy Messersmith, and Cloud Cult for the station's sixth birthday party, which sold out in ... More >>

Steph Hedrick of Jack's: Chef Chat, part 1

Lisa GulyaAt home in restaurant kitchens since age 15​Chef Steph Hedrick, who runs the kitchen at Jack's in south Minneapolis, started her restaurant career as a dishwasher. She was 15 years old. Four years and a few jobs later, Hedrick went to work at Philip Dorwart's Table of Contents in St ... More >>

Ben Berry, restaurant manager, caught selling counterfeit jerseys

Will Ben Berry pay the price for selling counterfeit goods? ​I'm plenty used to seeing Ben Berry's name--the guy sent out press releases practically every time Woolley's Steakhouse served a rib eye. But last week the restaurant manager's name--Berry was also directing operations at the Ameri ... More >>

St. Cloud prank caller poses as cop to criticize drivers

furryscalyHold the phone.​Is there a diabolical prankster on the loose in St. Cloud? Earlier this month, we reported on the Craigslist schemer who faciliated the strange theft of a resident's snowblower using a faux advertisement in the "Free" section. Friday evening, St. Cloud police say th ... More >>

Plagiarism king Jordan Kavoosi taunts critic on YouTube video

Kavoosi apparently still holds a grudge against his former employee.​It appears that very little has changed with Jordan Kavoosi since this past summer. Kavoosi, founder of Essaywritingcompany.com, has added another YouTube video to his collection, this one mocking former employee Deborah Mor ... More >>

RIP HellBurgers (Hell's Kitchen Duluth)

Even a burger conversion couldn't save Hell's...​Even though rebranding Hell's Kitchen, Duluth, as HellBurgers gave the Canal Park restaurant a big boost, it wasn't enough to keep the place in business. HellBurgers closed on Sept. 26, three years into a ten year lease. The Duluth News Tribun ... More >>

Yeti Records' co-owner and Gayngs member Jake Luck talks about his new venture

photo by: Stacy Schwartz​The Cities certainly have no lack of amazing record stores -- the Electric Fetus and Hymie's were recently included in Rolling Stone's top 25 -- and no scarcity of music fans either. There's plenty of love (and a slightly less plentiful amount of money) to go around we thi ... More >>

Perfect Strangers

Craiglist and calling cards birth Fake Places, one of the Cities' most exciting new bands

AmRep, Fake Places featured in this week's City Pages

​It's a big week for local music: Amphetamine Reptile Records is turning 25 years old and hosting a three-day blowout this weekend at Grumpy's Downtown and Northeast. Saturday's sold-out show features performances by the Melvins, Boss Hog, Today is the Day, God Bullies, Hammerhead, the Thrown Ups, ... More >>

Streetzza fire truck starts fires, puts out pizza

Monica WrightEatcha some Streetzza pizza​Seeing a fire rage on the back of a fire truck seems wrong...until a delicious pizza emerges from the flames. Nate Lane, owner of Minneapolis-based Thyme to Entertain catering, stumbled on a Craigslist ad for a 1972 East Bethel fire truck last year, a ... More >>

Plagiarism Inc.

Jordan Kavoosi built an empire of fake term papers. Now the writers want their cut.

Ringo offers worldly menu

From South Korea to South Africa

City Pages wins 12 first-place SPJ Page One awards

City Pages won 12 first-place trophies at the annual Page One awards Friday, beating both the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press for the second year in a row. The Star Tribune took home 8 first-place spots out of 17 overall; the Pioneer Press won 2 out of 10 nominations. City Pages won a total ... More >>

Goodman's bad day: Judge rules in favor of developer

City Pages wins 17 SPJ Page One awards

​Smiles abound this morning in the City Pages newsroom: The Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists tells us that we're in line for 17 honors in its annual Page One Awards.Although this year's haul represents a slight return-to-earth from City Pages' record-breaking 2 ... More >>

Pastor Dennis Campbell's anti-Islam newspaper ad

Granite City Baptist Church-Academy's anti-Islam ad in the St. Cloud Times​Ever wonder where some folks get their ideas about Islam? Some of them read what Pastor Dennis Campbell of Granite City Baptist Church-Academy has to say in this St. Cloud Times newspaper ad: "How do Moslems seek to ta ... More >>

Clinton Danner was allegedly pimping his wife on Craigslist for years

Danner's wife secretly contacted the Polaris Project's national trafficking hotline for help last Thursday.

Joe Basel: From U of M-Morris to Louisiana Watergate

A local boy's rise to power in America's right wing

Phoenix tonight at the Varsity Theater

A show good enough to get you and a few hundred of your closest friends in the same room. On a 100 degree day, that's saying something.

Craigslist-solicited rapist has Minnesota ties

A North Carolina man charged with raping a woman at her husband's bequest lived about 30 miles northeast of the metro for more than a decade. Dude was always something of a creeper, according to his ex-wife.

A Paper Cup Band talk laptops, Beck, and joining the local DIY scene

They break down bluegrass melodies into electronic oblivion

Man rams abortion clinic; buy your own skyway

All the weird news that's fit to print in capsule-sized bites

CP in D.C.: A diary from the Obama inauguration

Emily Kaiser heads to D.C. to experience firsthand one of the most historic events in recent memory

Craigslist babysitter-turned- child-pornographer pleads guilty

11/20 Morning Must Reads

Thursday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Freaks and Geeks

The No-No's are breaking out of the punk clichés and making waves on their own terms

Summer Grows Up

For once, this season's movies don't ask you to check your brains at the door

Why Is Sex With Someone You Don't Know Such a Powerful Fantasy For So Many?

University of Minnesota's Campus Con Man

Drinking buddies and ex-girlfriends were surprised to discover that the U of M student was 39 years old

Gospel Gossip Interstate Canine Transport and Shoegaze, Ltd.

Northfield foursome release the hounds--and an impressionistic, kinetic debut album

Wave of Mutilation

A local lawyer fights to save babies from circumcision

New Delhi Star Tribune

Local businesses, meet your new advertising partner: Habib

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