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Jack Kerouac

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    July 26, 2010

    Natalie Merchant at the O'Shaughnessy, 7/24/10

    Photos by Stacy Schwartz​Natalie MerchantJuly 24, 2010The O'Shaughnessy at St. Catherine UniversityBy Stacy SchwartzTo repeat a cliche, I could listen to her sing the phone book. That voice! I've been a fan of Natalie Merchant since my high school creative writing instructor played "Jack Kerouac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar channel Kerouac at Varsity

    Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar's sold-out Kerouac tribute hearkens adolescence but lacks innovation.

  • Music

    January 27, 2010

    Glitter Ball 3, MPLS.TV Winter Jubilee, and more

    Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar's sold-out Kerouac tribute hearkens adolescence but lacks innovation.

  • Calendar

    January 27, 2010

    Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard

    Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar's sold-out Kerouac tribute hearkens adolescence but lacks innovation.

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2008

    Breakfast of Champions 3/24: Happy Birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar's sold-out Kerouac tribute hearkens adolescence but lacks innovation.

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2006

    10/02 Morning Communiqué

    Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar's sold-out Kerouac tribute hearkens adolescence but lacks innovation.

  • Arts

    January 4, 2006

    Spotlight: Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty

    Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar's sold-out Kerouac tribute hearkens adolescence but lacks innovation.

  • Arts

    June 1, 2005

    Culture Jones

    Bill T. Jones breathes life into his influences

  • Music

    July 9, 2003

    Still Desperate After All These Years

    X return with their original lineup for the first time in more than a decade

  • News

    June 5, 2002

    John Berryman Leapt Here

    Mapping the literary landmarks of the Twin Cities

  • Books

    November 21, 2001

    T.B. Sheets

    Mapping the literary landmarks of the Twin Cities

  • News

    August 8, 2001

    "Don't Ever Say (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Onstage Again!"

    Audiences storm the stage. Actors suffer gastrointestinal distress. Backstage confessions of theater gone terribly, terribly wrong.

  • Art

    June 6, 2001

    Lady of the Portrait

    Nearly two decades after Alice Neel's death, her cold-eyed humanism has begun to look revolutionary

  • Movies

    March 21, 2001

    Salt of the Earth

    With The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Pier Paolo Pasolini likened the Messiah's sacred flock to the lumpen proletariat

  • News

    August 30, 2000

    An Encyclopedia of Little Abominations

    Emily Carter's flirtation with drugs led her from Park Avenue to a bad marriage with the festering streets of New York's Alphabet City. Now, in a collection of stories, Carter recalls the ABCs of addiction--and spells out the terms of a new life in Minnea

  • Music

    June 14, 2000

    Tao of the Tumbleweed

    Twang's Eastern philosopher Jimmie Dale Gilmore weaves his strange life into an Endless Night

  • News

    June 7, 2000

    Open Shutters

    Photographing radical Faeries, elderly grandparents, and homeless kids, Keri Pickett pulls subjects from the edges of public awareness to the center of the frame

  • Music

    March 1, 2000

    Texas Three-Step

    Decades after their only recording, the Flatlanders ride their legend from the strange plains of Lubbock to a surprising reunion

  • Movies

    December 8, 1999

    We Got the Beat?

    The Source suggests that beatness is in the eye of the beholder

  • Books

    June 2, 1999

    Dianne Highbridge: In the Empire of Dreams

    The Source suggests that beatness is in the eye of the beholder

  • Sports

    July 29, 1998

    Laying It on the Lyne

    The Source suggests that beatness is in the eye of the beholder

  • Feature

    March 11, 1998

    The Book Scout

    No job? No personal hygiene? No permanent address? No problem. Today's rare-book trade is the sort of wild treasure hunt that can transform an ordinary hobbyist into a full-time bottom feeder.

  • Books

    October 22, 1997

    The Terrible Twos

    In a pair of wretched new titles, Oliver Stone and Gus Van Sant show off their bookish sides--and it ain't pretty.

  • Music

    May 28, 1997

    various artists

    Kerouac and In Their Own Voices

  • Books

    August 14, 1996

    A Junkie Travelogue

    Kerouac and In Their Own Voices

  • Arts

    February 7, 1996

    The Wasteland, Continued

    PBS's The United States of Poetry tries to make verse sexy again.

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