Hannibal Lecter

Voodoo lily brings rotting corpse smell to Minnesota Zoo

The new voodoo lily at MN Zoo​Just in time for spring, the Minnesota Zoo has acquired a flower that blooms and smells like something died. Amorphophallus konjac--also known as Voodoo lily or Devil's tongue--landed at the zoo on Tuesday and is expected to bloom within the next few days. You don't ... More >>

Waunakee High School "Psych Ward" dancers tone down crazy routine

Screen grab: Waunakee Tribune This has nothing to do with mental health.​The Waunakee High School varsity dance team has been performing a number called "Psych Ward" recently, decked out in wild makeup and make-believe straitjackets, while snarling at the crowd. Hannibal Lecter might have tapped ... More >>

Mark Mallman, the Hold Steady, and more

New Year's Eve with Mark Mallman

Zombie Pub Crawl survival plan

Gimme Noise offers its tips for how to survive Saturday's planned zombie uprising.

Cannibal Corpse

American Ugly

L.I.E. peeps on the shadier side of suburbia

The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You

Everyone is a potential murderer in the malleable moral universe of Patricia Highsmith

Eating For Two

Hannibal equates the viewer with its own insatiable hunger artist

Fantastic Voyage

The Cell gets inside the mind of its genre

Killing With Kindness

Atom Egoyan's serial-killer thriller Felicia's Journey is gentle to a fault

Funny Business

In the growing local improv scene, everyone's a comedian

Touch of Evil

Three is the (un)lucky number: Margot and Tony Wendice (Suzanne Koepplinger, J.C. Cutler) welcome Max Halliday (Terry Hempleman) into their unhappy home in Dial 'M' for Murder.

A Prison by any Other Name

At the Minnesota sexual psychopathic personality treatment center, they lock up men who are dangerous--or unlucky--enough to be tabbed menaces to society even after they've done their prison time

Lady Killer