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Critics' Picks: Deerhoof, Built to Spill, GZA, and more

Patterson Hood & the Downtown Rumblers

Alabama Shakes at First Avenue, 8/2/12

Alabama Shakes and Dry The RiverFirst Avenue, MinneapolisThursday, August 2, 2012See Also: Slideshow: Alabama Shakes and Dry The River at First Avenue "Sometimes I don't know what to say. It doesn't mean I don't love you," said a breathless Brittany Howard to the audience last night, as the Alabama ... More >>

MSPIFF 2012: Reviews

Headshot, Unforgivable, Natural Selection, and more

Top 20 best Minnesota musicians: The complete list

​Related:Minneapolis music scene named second-best in the U.S.Minnesotans need to remember to exhale sometimes -- especially fresh on the heels of being ranked as the number two music scene in the country. Shouldn't it be enough to simply enjoy a rich history of quality musicians blossoming from f ... More >>

The 'Splendid Table' duo is back with another splendid cookbook

"We emphasize taking pleasure in the doing," Lynne Rossetto Kasper says. "This is not about 'it's got to be right and it's got to be perfect.' "​One of the very best things I ever ate was an appetizer made by Lynne Rossetto Kasper. She cracked open a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano and drizzled i ... More >>

Saffron reboots for the Target Field crowd

Middle Eastern mainstays remain on the menu

Nikola Pekovic taking bite out of NBA rookie season

Before basketball, a dental career was his future.

Jimmy Theros of Rudolph's inducted in restaurant hall of fame

Photo courtesy the Theros Group Jimmy Theros​Alas, budding restaurateurs, Jimmy Theros doesn't have any magic, easy advice on how to succeed in the business. "You have to be willing to do the hard work," Theros says after the Friday lunch rush at Rudolph's, the Minneapolis BBQ joint that ... More >>

Lil Wayne's letter from solitary confinement

Weezy speaks from punitive segregation.​In a surprising development, Lil Wayne has just posted a letter to his fans written from solitary confinement.Just last week, Weezy told fans that he was going to be on silence mode for the next several weeks while serving out a sentence to punitive segregat ... More >>

Bruce Molsky & Ale Möller

Dan Buettner's Blue Zones teach nine secrets of a longer life

Oprah author shares his longevity plan

Which is the Betta' Feta?

Haale: Rediscovering fire

Al Jefferson: Minnesota's Franchise 2.0

The Wolves believe in life after Kevin Garnett

Critics Picks: Super Furry Animals and more

Marcus and Melo, AI, oh my!

You Wish

Café Maude is hotter than an oven on fire in the center of the sun—so good luck getting in there

Olive You

Dear Dara takes on the salty, savory, occasionally even burning issue of olive bars in our time

The Lost Napkins of Leonardo Da Vinci

Is the future hiding somewhere in a 500-year-old notebook?

Reviews You Can Use

Want to put your newfound wine smarts to the test? City Pages' guest taster issues his recommendatinos for bottles sure to please.

Operation European Freedom

The propaganda films the Pentagon didn't want you to see

You Are Here

How to get lost (and maybe found) while walking around another guy's lawn

Rove/Plame: Left-libs go all Ann Coulter

Buried History

Minneapolis's past lies forgotten at the Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery

A Woman's Work is Never Done

Women make up well more than half of the Guthrie's audience, but less than 10 percent of its produced playwrights. Is this a tragedy or a farce?

Letter from Italy

When the politically obvious isn't obvious at all: An exchange

City of Sideshows

Amid all the carnival barking of the fringe, we tell you which tent shows deserve your ten bucks

The .14 Cent Solution

New royalties proposed by the music industry threaten to kill independent Internet radio

Menace to Greek Society

Theatre de la Jeune Lune conjures a satisfyingly murderous Medea

The Greatest Shows on Earth

Uzbek beauties! Swedish peaceniks! Iranian mummies! A guide to the high-wire act otherwise known as the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival.

Look, Sheryl: No Pictures!

A recommended reading list for people who live in big houses

Eastern Standard Time

While Western art cinema draws the flashbulbs at Cannes, contemplative works from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong leave the festival glowing in klieg lights from the East

Success, on a Small Scale

While some monumental artists starve, Jason Barnett carves out a creative niche in the figurine business

Happy Bar Mitzvah!

Voices of Sepharad celebrates its 13th anniversary with a remembrance of things past

Welcome to Minnetripoli

Libyan dissenters worldwide build a virtual headquarters--on a local public-access server

Party Games

In the rush to endorse school-board candidates, city pols may have forgotten to ask a few minor questions--like "What the heck do you stand for?"

Farewell, Kabul

One Is Not the Loneliest Number

Ten actors take on the world in the Bryant-Lake Bowl's Festival of One-Person Shows

Fear and Loathing in Cannes

An outsider's diary from Le Festival, where world cinema meets Planet Hollywood

Father, Son, and Holy Oak

D-N-GAY?

Steven Epstein separates the biology from the bias in Timothy F. Murphy's Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research

Empire of the Senseless

Virtual Electronica

Hoops and Ladders

How sports are wrecking schools.

While Rome Burns

Book Roundup

Book Roundup

Fast & Healthy

Mississippi Masala