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Weekend Checklist: The Bad Plus, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Soul Asylum

It's the last weekend of 2012! Why not squeeze in a couple of shows before the year closes? Local jazz heros The Bad Plus are continuing their Dakota Jazz Club stay into Friday and Saturday while the Trans-Siberian Orchestra makes their annual holiday stop at The Xcel. Friday, First Ave hosts Soul A ... More >>

Andy Parrish's response to Newtown school shooting: Arm teachers [UPDATE]

In the wake of today's unspeakably horrible school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, many are calling for a tightening of gun laws.SEE ALSO:-- Rep. Chip Cravaack says guns in the audience would've prevented Aurora shootings [VIDEO]-- Allen Quist blames Accent Signage shooting on "deterioration of th ... More >>

Corky the cat was born with backwards legs, but is now walking after surgery [PHOTOS] [VIDEO]

Corky the cat was dealt a tough hand by the Kitty Gods, but looks to have a healthy life ahead of him thanks to a complicated surgery paid for by his adoptive owners.In March, Fargo's CATS Cradle Shelter rescued Corky from the Moorhead Pound. He was brought there after he was seen dragging himself d ... More >>

Weekend Checklist: Rock the Garden, Jimmy Cliff, Aerosmith, The Weeknd

Rock the Garden may be sold out, but there's still plenty of music that can be heard outdoors this weekend with the Stone Arch Bridge Festival returning after not possibly happening. Jimmy Cliff will be rocking the MN Zoo while up-and-coming Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers bring their Americana flavo ... More >>

Guy Delisle

Footnote is Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee

A comedy of everyday absurdity merged with family tragedy

Madonna's 2012 world tour hits St. Paul in November

​There was absolutely zero chance that Madonna wasn't going to capitalize on her Super Bowl appearance this past weekend. Although it's unlikely that Madge will be able to pack M.I.A. (and her itchy middle finger), Nicki Minaj, and Cee Lo Green in her suitcase for this May-November excursion aroun ... More >>

Norm Coleman hired to bring excitement, Jewishness to Mitt Romney's campaign

Norm Coleman, Mitt Romney: In total, these two are 50 percent Jewish.​Mitt Romney's campaign complained a while back that conservative Jewish voters were supporting Michele Bachmann out of confusion, thinking that Minnesota's most outspoken Evangelical Christian was Jewish herself.So Romney's camp ... More >>

Rock for Pussy 8 unites Bowie fans and cat people tonight at First Avenue

Yes, that's a pile of kittens​There are cat lovers, and then there are CAT LOVERS. Crazy cat people from all across the cat insanity spectrum will be gathering at First Avenue tonight for the annual Rock for Pussy charity event, which invites local musicians to perform covers of David Bowie songs ... More >>

Brute Heart's Lonely Hunter

A mesmerizing sophomore album

Lyn Lake Street Fest, Stone Arch Festival of the Arts announce lineups

​Though much of their lineup had already been unveiled on their website, the Lyn Lake Street Fest has fleshed out its schedule and revealed all of its acts today, including Peter Wolf Crier's first local appearance in five months. As if that wasn't enough to get us salivating about summertime fun, ... More >>

Mapping the world's drunkest countries

Can American beer drinkers best the Germans? ​Wonder how your beer consumption compares to those of your counterparts in Belgium or Burkina Faso? The World Heath Organization recently released its comprehensive Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health (2011), which revealed some interesting ... More >>

Michele Bachmann doesn't want the TSA groping your junk

Bachmann doesn't want the TSA copping a look and a feel.​She says a lot of crazy stuff, and she keeps getting caught with her pants on fire, but here's something from Michele Bachmann that we can probably all get behind: She doesn't want folks getting groped by TSA agents. You know the deal b ... More >>

Don Saunders of In Season: Chef Chat, part 1

Christine ChovanChef Don Saunders of In Season restaurant​ Two years after closing Fugaise, chef Don Saunders is running his own restaurant again. Saunders' week-old restaurant, In Season, is located across the street from Cafe Maude in south Minneapolis. The philosophy behind the food is in ... More >>

Get Him to the Greek: See it or flee it?

Get Him to the Greek​Get Him to the Greek is a mess as a movie--but that doesn't mean it isn't funny. Besides Russell Brand's new film, your best bet might be a movie made in 1927--the newly restored classic Metropolis, in a weeklong run at the Lagoon. OPENING SEE: Get Him to the Greek Jonah ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's military chaplain prayer bill skunked out

​The theocrats never quit. One pet project: Turning the U.S. military into God's army. God's on our side, you see. And Rep. Michele Bachmann has just been skunked out in an attempt to further that project. The CD6 congresswoman tried to insert language -- without debate -- into a military spe ... More >>

Iron Man 2, Ajami, and more: A weekend movie guide

​You've got 10 bucks and two hours, and you don't want to waste any of it. We can help. Here's our guide to the best and worst movies playing this weekend. OPENING SEE: Ajami A contemporary crime drama edged with Greek tragedy, Ajami is set in a volatile, rundown quarter of Jaffa in Israel. The ... More >>

Norm Coleman says he wouldn't be rail thin if Pawlenty was president

Norm Coleman wants you to vote for Pawlenty to save his health.

Matisyahu tonight in the Main Room

He's the Jewish Sublime. Take that how you will.

Five best inauguration crowd moments

Mystery Meet

Thanks to Spamalot, the son of former St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly is dating American Idol Clay Aiken

Lieberman on McCain's foreign policy, almost

Seth Tobocman

Joe Biden calls bullshit on George Bush

Cathy Sultan

Cathy Sultan

Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance

Morgan Spurlock gives Americans a bad name, but (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine

Sophie Milman

Tutu Speaks

The Nobel Laureate deemed too offensive by the University of St. Thomas offers his thoughts in an exclusive interview

Beckham is coming to town

Junkets-R-Us: Congressional Edition

Burn Down the Disco

The Flaming Film Festival sets fire to familiarity

1/6: Morning Communique

Keeping It Real

Two restaurants cater to Minnesota's kosher community

Somebody Say Oh Lord!

Michele Bachmann heads an all-star cast of GOP Christian flat-earthers in the Sixth District

9/11-Another Minnesota Connection?

Nancy Hanlon says she met and talked with one of the 9/11 hijackers in a Rochester, Minnesota bar just weeks before the attack. Is it true? There's no telling for sure. Is her story plausible? Yes.

Bring 'em On!

The Bush administration's top 40 lies about war and terrorism

Protest and Survive

Novelist and historian Tariq Ali on the war and the antiwar movement

The History Lesson

Events get the better of 'Sisters of Swing' and 'Partitions'

Only a Movie?

A film about the 1972 Olympic massacre makes riveting documentary of the prototypical media spectacle

Stop Being So English

This year's British Television Advertising Awards promotes a new identity

Marc Ribot, Mongo Santamaria and Israel Cachao Lopez

The Phantom of the Movie House

Jack Liebenberg's forgotten legacy.

A Grab Bag of Reels

Suns of God

Suddenly Saddam

It should be remembered that the first plant Saddam used to make chemical weapons was built by the American multinational Bechtel with money supplied by the U.S. Agriculture Department.

Model Planet

Between the Bright and the Dworkin

A bunch of girls sitting around writing about sex.

Boom, Boom, You're Dead

Conspiracy Nation

Even the paranoid have real enemies.