Jerry Springer

The Story of My Life

The Edge of Our Bodies and Bat Boy: The Musical

Two plays reviewed

Evil Dead: The Musical at Illusion Theatre

Blood, gore, and catchy tunes

Best of Hot Dish: August 9-13, 2010

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Air America, Franken's launching pad, goes out of business

The "Kennedy seat" in the senate goes to a Republican, health care reform dies, and now this. It's a bad week for liberals.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical

The "Kennedy seat" in the senate goes to a Republican, health care reform dies, and now this. It's a bad week for liberals.

3 Redneck Tenors

The "Kennedy seat" in the senate goes to a Republican, health care reform dies, and now this. It's a bad week for liberals.

Sleazy Does It

'Jerry Springer the Opera' Is Gleefully Profane

Let's See If He Can Topple Three Milk Bottles with a Ping-Pong Ball

Cozying up to America's favorite carny

8/15 Morning Communiqué

Cozying up to America's favorite carny

The Story of O

Oprah's not gay—she's just got a lot to be happy about

Free Will Astrology

Oprah's not gay—she's just got a lot to be happy about

On The Level

Maligned EDM impresario makes a fresh start with a new club

Little Court of Horrors

In Anoka County juvenile court, meth and red tape are playing hell with the fate of children

You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman

In 'Venus of Mars,' all the men are women, all the women are strong, and All The Pretty Horses are somewhere in between

The Most Dangerous Game Show

Series 7 dares to make us care about reality TV

Capital Cinema

The money swapping was typically dubious. The movies were surprisingly bold. A story treatment from Hollywood's mountain outpost, Sundance 2001.

The Conversation

Joe Skelly's cable-access book show argues that the page is mightier than the screen

...Or Not to Be

Wisconsin Death Trip channels the pathologies of small-town America into a haunting picture show

Multiplication Problems

42 Up raises a new set of questions about Michael Apted's documentary series

Compound Interest

An open letter on the indomitability of hip hop to my high school economics teacher

First Runner-Up

A stinging beauty-pageant satire set in Minnesota wins no prizes for congeniality

Schlock and Roll

Twin Cities music embraces the stage act with a Hillbilly Porn Opera, a Clown Lounge cabaret, and a transgendered "Fin de Siècle" floorshow

Is He Nuts?

Turncoat. Chickenshit. Radical. Minnesota's senior senator has been called a lot of things. But president?

Bad Rap

The Hennepin County library system just wanted good clean fun on its CD rack. What it got was a free-speech debate that won't quit.

Grandmaster Clash

Connie Francis meets Nurse with Wound on the unruly turntables of DJ Ts

A Fair To Remember

Connie Francis meets Nurse with Wound on the unruly turntables of DJ Ts

Just So So Stories

Connie Francis meets Nurse with Wound on the unruly turntables of DJ Ts

My So-Called Show

"Our emerging hormones are destined to alter our relationship.": Dawson (James Van Der Beek) and Jen (Katie Holmes) speak like therapy veterans in the WB drama Dawson's Creek.