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First Avenue is looking for an administrative number-cruncher

Feeling underemployed? You're in luck, because First Avenue is feeling understaffed -- specifically in the position of Accounting Clerk/Administrative Assistant. For those with 20 hours available in their schedule between Monday and Friday, it might be time to dust off the resume and reach out to th ... More >>

Uniques

The best Craigslist Missed Connections on election day 2012

Presidential elections only happen once every four years, and that means getting exposed to a whole new potential dating pool group of people at the polls. There's just something about exercising our civic duty that gets us all hot and bothered, but we prefer stuffing our faces with junk food and wa ... More >>

Ronald Sims and Dee King allegedly used million-volt stun gun to rob Craigslist laptop seller

Early Sunday (exactly what time isn't clear), Jeff Hanson met Dee King in the Burger King parking lot at 695 East 7th Street in St. Paul. King and Hanson got in touch on Craigslist, where Hanson was looking to sell his laptop computer.SEE ALSO: Craigslist murders: A timeline King, a paroled bank rob ... More >>

Barbie's dreamhouse for sale on Minneapolis Craigslist [IMAGE]

The human housing market may not be so hot these days, but it's a different story for Twin Cities Barbie and Ken dolls.SEE ALSO: Brett Favre pubes salesman shares most hilarious correspondence with would-be buyersYesterday, a Bloomington resident named Leif put an epic poolside Barbie mansion up for ... More >>

Minneapolis: Home to top hipster hood

Plus, Brett Favre pube-gate leads to laughs while DRE Occupy scandal thickens

Brett Favre's pubes for sale for $200 (or best offer) on Minneapolis Craigslist

SEE ALSO:-- Brett Favre's penis revealed by Deadspin [UPDATE]-- Brett Favre will have to testify under oath about "bad intentions" sextingWho needs a game-worn jersey when you can have game-worn pubes?Today, a Craigslist poster in Minneapolis is testing the proposition that you can sell anything on ... More >>

Gauthier decides not to seek reelection after DFL Rep. Huntley calls him a "child molester"

SEE ALSO:-- Kerry Gauthier says he intentionally OD'd on pills as news of rest stop oral sex circulated-- Kerry Gauthier sex scandal: Are these his oral sex-seeking Craigslist posts?-- Rep. Gauthier, 56, claims rest-stop oral sex with Craigslist boy, 17, was consensualYesterday, Rep. Kerry Gauthier ... More >>

Kerry Gauthier says he intentionally OD'd on pills as news of rest stop oral sex circulated

SEE ALSO:-- Rep. Kerry Gauthier says he's running for reelection despite rest-stop sex scandal-- Kerry Gauthier sex scandal: Are these his oral sex-seeking Craigslist posts?-- Rep. Gauthier, 56, claims rest-stop oral sex with Craigslist boy, 17, was consensualThis afternoon, Rep. Kerry Gauthier, D-D ... More >>

The Duluth floods drowned my record collection

By Andrew OlsonRelated:Duluth flood updates: Low, Charlie Parr, & Trampled by TurtlesOver the past few years, I restored my basement into a great "man cave" of a music room. Sure, basements in Duluth have a reputation for dampness, but I thought I could beat Mother Nature. That is, until the ... More >>

Chassis the dog goes missing in Duluth, turns up 300 miles away near Iowa border

Duluth News TribuneChassis (with Teresa) is apparently a bit traumatized after her 300-mile adventure.​Chassis, a one-and-a-half-year-old husky, began 2012 with the walk of a lifetime.The dog broke free from her Duluth home on New Year's Day. Last week, she turned up in Taopi, a southern Minnesota ... More >>

Village Voice Media responds to clergy

Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times.

Kaffie McCullough on why she used bogus child sex trafficking study [AUDIO]

The Juvenile Justice FundKaffie McCullough admits they needed scary stats to get funding.​This week's cover story debunks a bogus study on juvenile prostitution that was used to demonize Craigslist and censor its adult classified ads. The problem is that the study is based on a seriously flawed m ... More >>

Shoveldance get set for release of Second Banana

Photo by Morgan Stanoch​Four plus years after they debuted the Hot Bananas EP, St. Paul's Shoveldance is getting set to release their first full-length: Second Banana in early summer. Since 2006, founding brothers Travis and Evan Henspeter have played with a cast of musicians (including add ... More >>

LARP vampires walk among us

Cosplay on a graduate level

Disgraced Rep. Christopher Lee (R-NY), what's on your iPod?

​Ayo, technology! These are the basics: Republican representative from New York gets busted for Craigslist shenanigans. That's it in a nutshell - technology's ease entreating yet another public figure to casually and carelessly flush his career down the toilet. Right now, ex-representative Christo ... More >>

Craigslist Missed Connection: 'To the guy who puked on me at Jayhawks'

Apparently the Jayhawks show wasn't as much fun for some people as it was for us. We were half-horrified, half-amused to find this Craigslist Missed Connection last night (thanks to our pal Robyn Lewis) from one of the band's unluckiest fans, who had to leave the show last night before the band came ... More >>

Train's Jimmy Stafford reflects on mainstream success

Jimmy Stafford (right) and his Train bandmates​For over a decade, Train has been serenading romantic relationships with honest, passionate and melodic love songs. Their radio-friendly, recognizable, and absurdly catchy singles have led to continued mainstream success; Train just received a 2011 Gr ... More >>

U of W Rose Bowl ticket scalpers reamed by campus newspaper

The home of rank capitalism.​The University of Wisconsin has the kind of problem we wish we had with the University of Minnesota: How to dispose of Rose Bowl tickets in a fair and decent manner. For now, we'll just watch from a distance. It's quite a game, too. Some 5,800 student tickets went ... More >>

Eyedea tribute, the New Standards, Andrew Bird, and more

Scammer sells Godfathers Pizza ovens on Craigslist

A guy named "Gary" got the Godfather. ​The owners of a defunct, mafia-branded pizza joint recently nearly had their ovens stolen--and the swindled buyers are out $6,400. KSTP talked to the Fridley police, who explained how the scam went down: the suspect broke into the closed Godfathers Pizz ... More >>

Peace Coffee serves its first cup at new shop

Liz PotasekPeace Coffee Barista Adam Marquardt prepares a flavorful cup of slow brewed coffee by measuring and grinding the beans, carefully wetting the grounds and pouring just the right amount of water into the filter.​With a disco ball, a light fixture made from old bike parts, and an array of ... More >>

Nas and Damian Marley, Weird Al, and B-Girl Be Carnival

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 >>

Weird Al Yankovic

Top 5 homophobes who turned out to be gay

Pastor Tom Brock reaped a whirlwind of self-loathing​Pastor Tom Brock became a viral sensation this week after he was outed by the local gay magazine, Lavender.Brock famously blamed the the tornado that struck downtown Minneapolis a church's embrace of gay clergy. He's taken a leave of absence, bu ... More >>

James Scott Miller admits terroristic Craigslist threat against Somalis

James Scott Miller​James Scott Miller, the 49-year-old New Hope man who said on Craigslist he'd be happy to use Somalis as target practice, pleaded guilty yesterday to making terroristic threats. Jailed since March, he worked out a deal in which he faces a faces a possible maximum 90 days behi ... More >>

CAIR MN unhappy with Muslims' treatment outstate, but what about Twin Cities?

So far, Muslim students in the Minneapolis and St. Paul schools have not come to CAIR with the kinds of complaints it hears from elsewhere in the state.

Pawlenty's "PlateGate" has DFLers in an uproar

Scandal accelerated faster than a runaway Toyota

Clinton Danner accused of selling wife for sex on Craigslist; arrested in Chicago

The pair met five years ago, when she was 17 and he was a 27-year-old church youth counselor.

Minneapolis skyway can be yours for just $50,000 cash

Plus: Unibrow bandit strikes with furrowed fierceness

Dominatrix Monique Dee McFarland says man she robbed wanted it

Also: Arrested zombies, baby for sale

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The Big Pink

No social networking for Minn. sex offenders

If you are a sexual predator in Minnesota, good luck making any online friends. You'll have to save the "poking" for in-person interaction. Wait, scratch that.

Storyhill and Romantica headline Concert for Katherine

Ann Reed is also slated to play the benefit concert Sunday night for Katherine Ann Olson.

Craigslist killer guilty on all counts

Michael Anderson, the 20-year-old man accused of killing a woman he lured to his Savage home with a fake Craigslist ad for a babysitter, has been found guilty of all charges by a jury.

Craigslist babysitter ad murder trial starts this week

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

Rock legends The Pretenders to amaze a sold-out First Ave

First Ave is set to be a perfect venue for music icons the Pretenders, which will be packed to the gills with an enthusiastic, sold-out crowd.

Radiohead cover band seeks to unlock Thom Yorke's genius

"What's That?" recreate some of modern rock's most complex songs

Minnesotan gets inauguration ticket, wants wild orgy in hotel

Jon Stewart: The Minneapolis Liar newspaper?

Zombies don't follow rules!

Thinking of renting your home out for the RNC?

Take a number. There's a glut in the market.

Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men

Inside the secret world of the straight guise

Momentum: New Dance Works

Par's Parting Shot

The ousted publisher goes out like a trust-fund punk

The McClatchy Strib: RIP. WTF?

Pruitt's Folly, big-daily blues, and the invasion of the stripper-flippers

Savage Love

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