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A peek behind Soundset 2013

From Snoop Dogg to Atmosphere, the festival boasts a variety of talent

Top 10 cupcake shops in the Twin Cities

Oh, the humble cupcake. Long a presence in church basements and family picnics, the simple mini-cake frosting recipe has gone upscale in recent years. It's easy to make a mediocre one, but the bakeries below prove that making a great one is a culinary work of art. The key is to find the proper bal ... More >>

Politico: Pawlenty made one of worst political blunders of 2011

​Tim Pawlenty's ill-fated decision to pin the fortunes of his Presidential bid on the Ames straw poll was one of the top ten political blunders of this year, according to Alexander Burns of Politico."Pawlenty advisers now reflect with some frustration that if they had treated the Ames contest for ... More >>

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Donald Trump calls Michele Bachmann disloyal for skipping Iowa debate

Michele Bachmann - Donald Trump 2012?​Michele Bachmann is now the fifth Republican candidate to announce she will not participate in the December 27 debate in Des Moines, Iowa, and Donald Trump is not taking it well. Trump, who is slated to moderate the debate, said he was "very disappointed" in ... More >>

The Roots diss Michele Bachmann with 'Lyin' Ass Bitch' as she walks on Jimmy Fallon

​Anyone who follows Roots drummer and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon staple Questlove on Twitter knows that he puts a lot of thought into the walk-on music the band plays for each of the guests on their show. One of the Roots' finest zingers to date was playing the Milli Vanilli song "Girl You Know ... More >>

Michele Bachmann, on phone call with Donald Trump, accidentally endorses Occupy Wall Street

Michele Bachmann, Donald Trump: Press star-three and reach for the stars.​Michele Bachmann held her surprise-party tele-townhall with Donald Trump last night, allowing the two of them to show off their finest skills. Trump, as is well known, is probably the hardest blowing blowhard in American pol ... More >>

Michele Bachmann and Donald Trump need your phone number [UPDATE]

Michele Bachmann, Donald Trump: Maybe you guys should just text each other.​Michele Bachmann and Donald Trump are finally ready to make your nightmares come true. If you have some free time tonight, and are trying to get rid of those last shards of dignity, you can listen to Michele and the Donald ... More >>

Donald Trump says Pawlenty isn't a "tough guy" [VIDEO]

Please Tim, fight back on this one.​Donald Trump thinks Tim Pawlenty isn't tough enough to be president. Appearing by phone on "Fox and Friends" yesterday, Trump and his combover told the audience that Pawlenty "blew it" by not attacking Mitt Romney on "Obamneycare" at the Republican debate. Trump ... More >>

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Michele Bachmann strangely silent on Obama's birth certificate

With birtherism well and truly debunked, AGAIN, Bachmann is strangely mum.​For years now, Michele Bachmann has raised eyebrows and garnered headlines by repeatedly encouraging the thinly-veiled racism of the birther movement. But today -- a big day in birther history -- she has nothing to say ... More >>

Top Five ways Tim Pawlenty is just like Donald Trump

Pawlenty and Trump: Not so different.​Tim Pawlenty has struggled to get attention for his presidential run with action movie promos and appearances with Jon Stewart. Meanwhile, Donald Trump merely pretends to run and is the talk of CNN. T-Paw just can't win! Perhaps the solution is for The T ... More >>

Bachmann abandons birthers on ABC, backtracks on Fox

Bachmann: "Well then, that should settle it."​We keep asking why Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has such a hard time saying that Barack Obama is an American, and suddenly there she is on "Good Morning America," breaking her bond with the birthers. But then we blinked.

Trump-Bachmann 2012: The all-crazy all-birther ticket

A certain kind of dream ticket.​Minnesota's two favorite maybe-probably presidential candidates aren't exactly tearing out of the gate. A poll last week showed Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann duking it out for last place among likely Republican presidential candidates. This week things are ev ... More >>

Michele Bachmann calls Barack Obama's birth certificate a facsimile

​Why is it so hard for Michele Bachmann to just come out and say that President Barack Obama is an American citizen? Her latest embrace of birther conspiracy theories comes in the pages of Christianity Today -- where you'd think some adherence to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule might ... More >>

Pawlenty and Bachmann compete for last place in GOP poll

Pawlenty tells CNN he's a tortoise. The hare is still beating him.​In his "I'm running for president" interview with Piers Morgan, Tim Pawlenty said he wasn't troubled by a new CNN poll showing Donald Trump leading the field of potential GOP White House contenders. "I'm just getting known, Pi ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty: "I'm running for president" [VIDEO]

Tim Pawlenty tells Piers Morgan he's running.​"I'm running for president," former Gov. Tim Pawlenty told CNN's Piers Morgan last night. "I'm not putting my hat in the ring rhetorically or ultimately for vice president. I'm focused on running for president." He also threatened to grow his mullet b ... More >>

Pawlenty's Obama diaper joke stinks on Fox & Friends [VIDEO]

Tim Pawlenty steps in some diaper poop.​You know you've gone too far criticizing President Barack Obama when even Fox News trashes your rhetoric as "bad for the country." But Tim Pawlenty will try anything to get noticed as he edges toward a run for the White House, while trying to shuck the ... More >>

Pawlenty campaign staff loves light rail that Pawlenty fought

Team T-Paw loves light rail.​Something caught our eye below the headline yesterday that Tim Pawlenty's soon-to-be campaign staff had leased 5,000 square feet of office space in a swank downtown Minneapolis office building. They liked the site because of the Hiawatha Line light rail link to Mi ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty channels Charlie Sheen: "Winning!" (without tiger blood)

Winning!​Tim Pawlenty has found another way to try and convince voters that he's really not the boring guy from Minnesota that everyone says he is. He's hitched his wagon to Charlie Sheen's "tiger blood" star. Sort of. He doesn't really want to have consumed every drug known to human kind, bl ... More >>

Michele Bachmann poses beside "Kenyan village idiot" sign [PHOTO]

PixliBachmann and the birther sign.​Rep. Michele Bachmann happily plays into the birther conspiracy hokum that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not America. So maybe it's not a surprise that at a 200-strong tea party rally in our nation's capital on Thursday, with a scrum of press p ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty vs. Donald Trump, Birther

T-Paw wants Trump to get a grip on reality.​Tim Pawlenty has shown over and over that he's willing to go the extra mile to win over the Republican Party base. But he draws the line with birthers -- including Donald Trump. Funny guy, The Donald, and he's rich, too, Pawlenty told Sean Hannity ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty: Barack Obama really is American

He's American. Get over it. Move on.​President Barack Obama is an American. Rep. Michele Bachmann and her followers seem to have a hard time accepting that fact, but the fellow Minnesotan she may face if she runs for the GOP presidential nomination harbors no such tea party delusions. Tim Paw ... More >>

Steve Schussler is Walt Disney of theme restaurants

Behind the scenes with Rainforest Cafe owner

It's a Jungle in There: new book by restaurateur Steven Schussler

The story behind Rainforest Cafe and Steve Schussler's success.​It's not every businessman who has a story worthy of securing blurbs from Donald Trump, Lee Iacocca, and Harvey Mackay, but, then again, local restaurateur Steven Schussler, creator or the Rainforest Cafe and owner of Galaxy Drive ... More >>

Top 10 famous trophy wives

It's a hard job, but somebody's gotta do it​Tim Pawlenty didn't step out in front of a Waverly, Iowa, crowd over the weekend and proudly introduce his wife as an accomplished former lawyer and judge. Nope, he wanted to talk about his smokin' hot arm candy! That's an old story for men in powerful p ... More >>

Oreo ads pit Donald Trump against the Manning brothers

Oreo introduces its new Golden Double Stuf with an ad campaign featuring Donald Trump.

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Kanye Bests 50 Cent, But Is Either Album a Winner?

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James Scurlock's debt doc not worth price of admission

12/22 Morning Communiqué

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The Story of O

Oprah's not gay—she's just got a lot to be happy about

You Could Do with a Little Less Flesh

Zombies tear into capitalist culture: Living is for losers

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Sacred Unions

Remembering "Bloody Sunday" for all the right reasons

Celebrity Death Match

TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe takes on Trump and Bush

Tokyo After Dark

Escaping into the anime of the A.M. on the Cartoon Network

Nobody Loves Me

Can The Job's hard-to-like cop win the kindness of strangers?

Summer Stock

In an annual late-August ritual, the studios clear the vaults of their least promising product

Off Beat

Hart On His Sleeve

With Good News for Modern Man, Grant Hart pulls away from his past--while keeping an eye on the rear-view mirror

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Party of Losers

A recent Supreme Court decision upholding tight Minnesota rules on cross-party endorsements quashed the possibility of third parties playing a balance-of-power role in most states. Thus, the only hope for a renewal of progressive electoral politics is for

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