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  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Dave Roeser's English-only measure for Lino Lakes wins green light

    Via 4Roeser.comDave Roeser's English-only measure passes in Lino Lakes​Lino Lakes City Councilman Dave Roeser's first-in-the-state English-only measure got a nearly unanimous thumb's up at last night's council meeting. But even though Roeser and his allies were adamant that their action was ba ... More >>

  • News

    February 24, 2010

    Walk About

    The leaving and the longing for life

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Man convicted of manslaughter after leaving infant son face down

    The baby suffocated while his father was in another room smoking weed and talking on a phone sex chatline.

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Two teenagers each held on $3M bond in Seward triple homicide

    Police say Mahdi Hassan Ali was the gunman and Ahmed Shire Ali was his accomplice in a robbery attempt.

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Bike Boulevards and the future of Minneapolis cycling

    The city continues to lag on a simple solution to bicycle transit.

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Man accused of smoking weed, calling sex line while infant son died

    As his son suffocated to death, the man allegedly smoked weed and called a phone sex line in another room.

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Photos: Electric Fetus, neighborhood tornado damage

    An update on the status of the Electric Fetus damages.

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Death Cycle II - Lyndale and Franklin

    Yep. This intersection still sucks for cyclists...

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    New Seward Co-op is a natural shopper's nirvana

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    Co-op culture blows up at Seward's new Franklin Avenue building.

  • News

    October 15, 2008

    The top 10 most dangerous bike intersections in Minneapolis

    Is biking in Minneapolis becoming treacherous transit?

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Labor Day weekend: More than a JCPenny sale

    Is biking in Minneapolis becoming treacherous transit?

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    Best. Obama Slogan. Ever.

    Is biking in Minneapolis becoming treacherous transit?

  • Music

    May 14, 2008

    What's That Noise?

    The Heliotrope Festival showcases local experimental acts that fly under the radar

  • Feature

    January 23, 2008

    Alec Soth stays sane by staying put

    Freeze Frame: the arresting images of Minneapolis photographer and New York art star Alec Soth

  • Feature

    January 2, 2008

    Artists of the Year

    Ernest A. Bryant III

  • News

    September 26, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Ernest A. Bryant III

  • News

    August 15, 2007

    Mondo Condo

    When apartments are converted, renters don't have many rights

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2007

    City of Minneapolis prepares new traffic plans following the bridge collapse

    When apartments are converted, renters don't have many rights

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2007

    Zinefest this weekend in Minneapolis

    When apartments are converted, renters don't have many rights

  • News

    December 6, 2006

    Clinical Recession

    Bad debt and budget cuts by the U of M leave community clinics scrambling to stay open

  • Columns

    October 18, 2006

    Get on the Bus

    A crew of latter-day hippies prowls the city streets with 500 pounds of lemons and a yen for sharing

  • Columns

    November 23, 2005

    The Village Idiot Knows Something

    Mad Peeaire would like to talk to you about Aristotle, Wilde, Blake, Freud--and his childhood memories of a goat-buggering orgy. Why won't you listen?

  • Music

    August 3, 2005

    Your Bad Self

    Micranots rapper I Self Devine finds clarity in 'Self Destruction'

  • Columns

    July 21, 2004

    The Mission

    Making book with Carolyn Cone

  • News

    March 10, 2004

    Built to Fail

    The federal No Child Left Behind law is threatening to wreck public education in Minnesota and elsewhere. That's what it was designed to do.

  • News

    November 26, 2003

    Hack Attack

    For cabbies, the mean streets keep getting meaner

  • News

    May 8, 2002

    On The Corner

    Overwhelmed activists, embattled police, and perplexed politicians brace for a long, hot summer in South Minneapolis

  • Movies

    July 11, 2001

    The Most Dangerous Game Show

    Series 7 dares to make us care about reality TV

  • News

    January 17, 2001

    Off Beat

    Series 7 dares to make us care about reality TV

  • News

    December 20, 2000

    Better Days

    They went through hell in Mogadishu. But for 17-year-old Mohamed Abdullahi and other Somali immigrants, in Minneapolis it's still an uphill climb.

  • Art

    October 18, 2000

    Artful Dodgers

    Two local shows reveal how a deft artistic touch often involves some sleight of hand

  • Arts

    August 16, 2000

    Everything Is Permitted

    Where to go to make an electronic drum out of your pickup truck--and other secrets of alternative art venues

  • Books

    April 19, 2000

    Public Enemies

    Getting tough on Minneapolis's least wanted

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    The Belle of the Block

    Tame the wilds of Park Avenue? There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Donna Ellringer way

  • Books

    December 29, 1999

    Overdue Books

    A pricey new library in downtown Minneapolis has boosters of the underfunded branches seeing red

  • Books

    December 29, 1999

    Rent!

    The affordable-housing crisis comes to Uptown

  • Arts

    July 28, 1999

    For Art's Sake!

    What takes seven years to build, costs nearly $600,000, and looks like a boondoggle?

  • Arts

    July 14, 1999

    Schoolhouse Talk

    University lectures on tape may be the most middlebrow product since Reader's Digest. So what's wrong with that?

  • Books

    April 7, 1999

    Log Jam at Old Steepy

    Thinking of driving to Uptown this summer? Better think again.Thinking of driving to Uptown this summer? Better think again.

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    Off Beat

    Thinking of driving to Uptown this summer? Better think again.Thinking of driving to Uptown this summer? Better think again.

  • Books

    September 2, 1998

    I Spy

    Will federal money help put surveillance cameras on Phillips streets?

  • Feature

    February 4, 1998

    FRANKLIN PLANNER

    Blue No More: The Franklin Theater plans to leave its porn days behind with a long-coming renovation.

  • Movies

    December 3, 1997

    (Un)Holy Ones

    Do This for the Remembrance of Me: Bob Flanagan in Sick.

  • Feature

    March 26, 1997

    Miller Time

    Do This for the Remembrance of Me: Bob Flanagan in Sick.

  • News

    March 12, 1997

    How Little Asia Was Born

    Bad city planning in the late 1970s led inadvertently to Nicollet Avenue's rebirth as the most vital ethnic

  • News

    October 16, 1996

    When the Music Stops

    Bad city planning in the late 1970s led inadvertently to Nicollet Avenue's rebirth as the most vital ethnic

  • News

    April 24, 1996

    Immigrant's Song

    Bad city planning in the late 1970s led inadvertently to Nicollet Avenue's rebirth as the most vital ethnic

  • Arts

    March 20, 1996

    Babes in Armies

    Bad city planning in the late 1970s led inadvertently to Nicollet Avenue's rebirth as the most vital ethnic

  • News

    February 21, 1996

    If These Walls Could Talk

    The history of an entire city echoes through the empty rooms at 3044 Third Avenue South.

  • Books

    October 18, 1995

    Hail to the Chef

    The history of an entire city echoes through the empty rooms at 3044 Third Avenue South.

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