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Steve Horner hopes to win big against ladies' night in Las Vegas

Steve Horner might have finally hit the jackpot in his fight against ladies' night. Long a crusader against the drink special -- he argues it amounts to discrimination against men -- Horner wired his Yankee's hat for sound and busted up some Las Vegas "pool parties" last summer. To Horner's surpris ... More >>

Spirit Airlines to offer flights from Twin Cities to Chicago and Vegas

Spirit Airlines, a discount carrier based out of Florida, announced this morning that it will be the newest addition to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Effective this summer, Spirit will begin offering daily flights from MSP to Las Vegas and Chicago. Today and tomorrow, tickets will go for $28.79 ... More >>

Flesh and the Desert

Spirit Airlines, a discount carrier based out of Florida, announced this morning that it will be the newest addition to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Effective this summer, Spirit will begin offering daily flights from MSP to Las Vegas and Chicago. Today and tomorrow, tickets will go for $28.79 ... More >>

GQ/Bombay Sapphire contest picks the Twin Cities' "Most Inspired Bartender"

Chad Larson: WINNING!​Tuesday night four of the Twin Cities' most creative bartenders came together to compete in the GQ/Bombay Sapphire "Most Inspired Bartender" contest. The winner is sent to Las Vegas and represents Minnesota against bartenders from all around the U.S.. Each bartender developed ... More >>

Best of Hot Dish: August 1-5, 2011

A cool drink for the weekly wrap-up​During the dog days of the season, the news has been varied and sundry. This week saw fringe, taint, blame, mystery and more, all thrown around in the Hot Dish blog. Without further ado, here are a round-up of some of the more colorful stories that graced the si ... More >>

Cirque du Soleil: Ovo

A cool drink for the weekly wrap-up​During the dog days of the season, the news has been varied and sundry. This week saw fringe, taint, blame, mystery and more, all thrown around in the Hot Dish blog. Without further ado, here are a round-up of some of the more colorful stories that graced the si ... More >>

America's Next Great Restaurant now hiring in Bloomington!

Work for the folks you've seen on TV.​Are you a fan of America's Next Great Restaurant who's looking for employment? The forthcoming Bloomington location of the as-of-yet-undetermined winning restaurant is hiring cashiers, front of the house, prep cooks, and bakers.

Britney Spears and Enrique Iglesias coming to Xcel July 6

​This summer's arena calendar is already filling up, with Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and Journey coming to the Xcel, plus shows by Usher, Rihanna, Sade, and the aging pop version of Voltron, NKOTBSB, coming to the Target Center. To add to the spectacle, Britney Spears is throwing her hat in the rin ... More >>

Avenue Q

​This summer's arena calendar is already filling up, with Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and Journey coming to the Xcel, plus shows by Usher, Rihanna, Sade, and the aging pop version of Voltron, NKOTBSB, coming to the Target Center. To add to the spectacle, Britney Spears is throwing her hat in the rin ... More >>

Hastings 3000 tour diary, Vol. 1

​One-man-masked-band Hastings 3000 is in the midst of his first tour, which will find him jetting out to the West Coast, Hawaii, and Japan. Here's the first installment of his tour diary, including photos and videos from his trip compiled by Hastings 3000, and check back throughout the next two we ... More >>

Chino Latino's Tuan Nguyen: Chef Chat, part 1

​Noticed the new Chino Latino billboards? No, they're not as outrageous/enraging as its past campaigns. These billboards feature the supersized eye of the restaurant's new executive chef, Tuan Nguyen. Nguyen, Chino Latino's first Asian executive chef, joins the restaurant 25 years into his car ... More >>

Color Me Gone: the Racing Picture

​Noticed the new Chino Latino billboards? No, they're not as outrageous/enraging as its past campaigns. These billboards feature the supersized eye of the restaurant's new executive chef, Tuan Nguyen. Nguyen, Chino Latino's first Asian executive chef, joins the restaurant 25 years into his car ... More >>

Minneapolis-St.Paul just isn't that stressed out

Minneapolis is mellow -- comparatively​We hear lots of teeth gnashing over our spiraling homicide count, cuts to our police and firefighting budgets, pot hole-infested roadways and gimpy NFL quarterback. But the truth is, despite that stuff, the Twin Cities is one of the least stressful metrop ... More >>

Justin Baule: From Twin Cities to Sin City (and to Envy Saturday)

Justin DJing in Las Vegas​ I first met Justin Baule at Let It Be Records in 2001 when he was 17 years old. He was the youngest member of the up-and-coming EC/DC house music collective, but even then his music taste was years beyond age considering his penchant for artists like Teddy Pendergrass ... More >>

Cirque Du Soleil: Alegria

Justin DJing in Las Vegas​ I first met Justin Baule at Let It Be Records in 2001 when he was 17 years old. He was the youngest member of the up-and-coming EC/DC house music collective, but even then his music taste was years beyond age considering his penchant for artists like Teddy Pendergrass ... More >>

Tease! Lili's Burlesque Revue's 6th Anniversary Soiree

Justin DJing in Las Vegas​ I first met Justin Baule at Let It Be Records in 2001 when he was 17 years old. He was the youngest member of the up-and-coming EC/DC house music collective, but even then his music taste was years beyond age considering his penchant for artists like Teddy Pendergrass ... More >>

Minnesota Daily is the best U.S. college newspaper

​Congratulations to the staff at the University of Minnesota's campus newspaper, The Minnesota Daily, for taking home this year's Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Daily staffers also took home two individual awards. Jules Ameel won fi ... More >>

Karen Rontowski

​Congratulations to the staff at the University of Minnesota's campus newspaper, The Minnesota Daily, for taking home this year's Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Daily staffers also took home two individual awards. Jules Ameel won fi ... More >>

Pigeons accused of attacking NWA plane after MSP takeoff

Well, if there's any flock of birds worth sucking into an engine and spitting out into little shreds, we vote pigeons.

Survey reveals Minneapolis one of the least stressful cities in U.S.

If you're sitting at your computer right now clawing your eyes out in a vain attempt to forget the myriad tasks, bills, obligations, etc. conspiring to crush your troubled soul, now might be a good time to take consolation that, hey, it could be worse.

Chris Bliss

If you're sitting at your computer right now clawing your eyes out in a vain attempt to forget the myriad tasks, bills, obligations, etc. conspiring to crush your troubled soul, now might be a good time to take consolation that, hey, it could be worse.

Muja Messiah

If you're sitting at your computer right now clawing your eyes out in a vain attempt to forget the myriad tasks, bills, obligations, etc. conspiring to crush your troubled soul, now might be a good time to take consolation that, hey, it could be worse.

Wells Fargo just can't resist Las Vegas

Lesson: Don't go begging for taxpayer money then make it rain on strippers.

Wells Fargo craps out, cancels Vegas junket

Playing roulette after receiving bailout money would have been a bad PR move.

Q&A: The Killers

Fantastic films in a frugal world

Which movies got you the most for your money in '08?

So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2008

Which movies got you the most for your money in '08?

CSI: The Experience

Which movies got you the most for your money in '08?

Mitt Romney gets into DNC ... on someone's press pass

Which movies got you the most for your money in '08?

A Porn Star Is Born

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

Tubby Smith Was Not Born in A Barn: Requiem

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

Dancing with the Stars

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

Musab (CD-Release)

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

5/14 Morning Communiqué

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

3/19 Morning Communiqué

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

3/9 Morning Communiqué

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

City Planner: Friday 11/24

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

7/21 Morning Communiqué

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

5/17: Morning Communique

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

4/4: Morning Communique

One Minneapolis man's quixotic quest to become the next Ron Jeremy

Cosmo Dust Versus Mr. Universe

Novelist Gregory Blake Smith stages a postmodern smackdown (plus love story) in Las Vegas

The Decorated Duck

Between a hard rock and a place: The nowhere look of downtown's Block E

This One Goes To 11

Steven Soderbergh Pumps Up the Volume of Stars in 'Ocean's Eleven'

Lucky Numbers

Steven Soderbergh Pumps Up the Volume of Stars in 'Ocean's Eleven'

The End of the World Is Near

It's about the protrusion, not the circumference

The Wine Bar at the End of the World

It's about the protrusion, not the circumference

Money Talks

Mainstream advertisers start to eye queer dollars

High Times

Don't look back: Johnny Depp (left) and Benicio Del Toro bring a '90s work ethic to the business of debauchery.

Lights! Camera! Elvis!

Jailhouse Rock and Viva Las Vegas turn Hollywood's first rock star from a kid into a King.

Heart Throbs in Vegas

Jailhouse Rock and Viva Las Vegas turn Hollywood's first rock star from a kid into a King.