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Micranots rise again

After nearly a decade apart, I Self Devine and DJ Kool Akiem talk about their seminal album, Obelisk Movements

Top ten country kiss-off songs for Valentine's Day

Country music has given us some of the sappiest most godawful finest, most touching love songs of the last several decades, but when it comes to break-up songs, that's where the genre truly earns its keep on the charts. We picked the most vengeful, the most spiteful, the most downright angry country ... More >>

Big Freedia at the Turf Club, 2/2/13

Big FreediaTurf Club, St. PaulSaturday, February 2, 2013By the time New Orleans' Queen Diva Big Freedia took the stage, the crowd seemed worlds away from a cool down. With all that sustained pleasure, it makes a bit of sense that the roomful of Freedia Freaks would eventually fizzle.See ... More >>

50 cool facts about the Minnesota music scene

Here's a not-so-secret fact about Minnesota music: People love to talk about how much they love the scene here. Musicians from both out-of-state and the Twin Cities have gone out of their way to pen odes to our town and its vibrant community, from Atmosphere to Lucinda Williams Tom Waits to Mark Ma ... More >>

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in trouble with the law

Experts see more soldiers facing criminal time

First Avenue now serving food at the Depot

​First Avenue has been around since 1970, but no matter how many times you've been there, beginning tonight you'll see something you never have before--food! The club's new bar and restaurant, the Depot (a nod to the location's original use as a Greyhound bus station) opens tonight with casua ... More >>

Matt Entenza defends Robyne Robinson in Star Tribune op-ed

Photo: Stephen StephensThe right pick?​As DFLer Matt Entenza rolled out Robyne Robinson as his his running mate in the 2010 governor's race last week, we winced. Robinson got to boost her own profile on Fox 9 in the waning days of her employment, stomp all over journalism ethics by playing bo ... More >>

Robyne Robinson turns Fox 9 into campaign commercial

Lieutenant governor candidate denies conflict of interest

Matt Entenza picks Robyne Robinson as running mate

She's the one on the Greyhound bus​Ending a week of wild web buzz, DFL candidate for governor Matt Entenza has picked former Fox 9 anchorwoman Robyne Robinson as his running mate. And as promised, he made the announcement via Twitter: "It's my distinct pleasure to announce Robyne Robinson @ro ... More >>

Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey takes 16-year-old fiancée

Police intervene in vampire love affair after comment war on City Pages' website

Paige Brewer released to mother, Jonathon Sharkey rides Greyhound out of town

Paige Brewer vanished with the self-described vampire over Valentines Day weekend.

Mac Davis's birthday and 10 ramblin' songs

Today, one of country's best relationship-phobes turns 68. Ten songs to get hooked on... but not too hooked. I don't want no clingin' vine! You're smothering me!

Are women happiest at age 28?

Friends answer: Damn straight

Living on the streets of Minneapolis for a week

More than 9,000 Minnesotans are homeless. I decided to join them.

Poolside Manners

After banning a three-year-old from swimming, grown man still fears cooties

I Can't Believe It's Not Paint Thinner Vol. 3

Where the Ladies at?

The battles and breaks behind the first female hip-hop festival

Playboy loves First Avenue

De Stijl

And on the Ninth Day Sean Rested

A blow-by-blow account of Slug's weeklong stand in the 7th St. Entry

First Avenue's Black Tuesday

In the 24 hours before First Avenue declared bankruptcy, employees were told to cash their checks, gather their things, and wait.

Bright Lights, Big Cello

Michelle Kinney followed the musical avant-garde to New York--and back again.

First Love

The legendary bands. The terrifying toilets. An oral history that goes so far behind the music it will leave you at a gun range beneath the stage.

The Road to Everywhere

Aaron Cometbus's 20-year journey into the heart of underground America

Twin Killing

Is there any way to keep Major League Baseball in Minnesota? Well, for starters we could get a judge to classify Carl Pohlad as a vulnerable adult...

Safe Harbor?

The Salvation Army plans to house prison inmates in a work-release program at its Minneapolis shelter

Burlesque

She's an erotic cottage industry, a one-woman costume caper, an impresario of unusual adult entertainment. Meet Thomasina Kundalini: A riddle wrapped in a web site inside a cable-access show.

The Hairy Truth

You thought Bigfoot sightings went out with Pop Rocks and moon boots. Try telling that to Mike Quast, who is convinced the creatures are alive and well and living in Minnesota.

Off Beat

A Terrible Beauty

Faye Wenell was the life of the party--bright and artistic, with a smile you couldn't resist. But that was before the bodies began to turn up.

Putting Green

Developers want to turn downtown Minneapolis into a golf paradise. Now all they need is a site--and some cash from the city.

See You In Court

Five years ago Mike Hatch was just another failed politician. Then a dying woman walked into his office, and a crusade was born.

The Doctor Is in the Park

Whenever there is a historic baseball moment--a 3,000th hit, a pitcher's 300th win--St. Paul's Seth Hawkins, a.k.a. Dr. Fan, is there to see it

Imperial Bedrooms