Latin America

John Johnson shows off $240,000 "executive protection dog" in the New York Times

Not your average executive canine companion.​This whole Seal Team 6 dog crush has jumped the shark. Did you know there's a company that sells "executive protection dogs" that can cost more than what most folks pay for a home in the Twin Cities? The New York Times just profiled a guy named Jo ... More >>

Alex Chase of Masu Sushi and Robata, Chef Chat Part 2

Chef Alex Chase and Hello Kitty share a laugh​Alex Chase, executive chef at Masu Sushi and Robata in Northeast, may prefer the chaos of a kitchen to the babble of a Twitter feed, but we were able to coax a few more insights out of the self-described shy guy.  Yesterday we discussed the depths ... More >>

Mixed Blood Theatre announces 2010-11 season

Mixed Blood Theatre's 35th season: an Isabel Allende adaptation, a world premiere and . . . "Avenue Q" ​Mixed Blood Theatre has announced its 35th season, a slate of four shows including works by Thomas W. Jones II, an Isabel Allende adaptation, and a new work by Aditi Brennan Kapil. All look intr ... More >>

Grupo Fantasma

Mixed Blood Theatre's 35th season: an Isabel Allende adaptation, a world premiere and . . . "Avenue Q" ​Mixed Blood Theatre has announced its 35th season, a slate of four shows including works by Thomas W. Jones II, an Isabel Allende adaptation, and a new work by Aditi Brennan Kapil. All look intr ... More >>

Glamboree, Community Cabaret: A-List Extra

​This week we have a farmers' market worth the drive, an LGBTQ benefit party at Bedlam Theatre, and a performance evening celebrating Wing Young Huie's "University Avenue Project." Come and take a look. 

The University Avenue Project: Community Cabaret

​This week we have a farmers' market worth the drive, an LGBTQ benefit party at Bedlam Theatre, and a performance evening celebrating Wing Young Huie's "University Avenue Project." Come and take a look. 

SXSW Aftermath: Radio K's in-studios with Holy Fuck, Malachai, Dengue Fever, more

Watch a few in-studio videos recorded live at SXSW.

Fusion replaces Zeno in Uptown

Goodbye Zeno, hello Fusion. The Uptown dessert cafe transforms into a sushi bar.

100 Favorite Dishes: French Toast of the Dead at Chino Latino

Breakfast for dinner = good. Breakfast at bar time = even better.

Pawlenty's a no-show for his own rally; Bachmann takes stage

The Republican faithful come to praise the governor' proposed constitutional amendment, but he's nowhere in sight.

Chicha Libre

The Republican faithful come to praise the governor' proposed constitutional amendment, but he's nowhere in sight.

Cool books for the foodie on your list

007: Man of the Left

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above"Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above," said Noam Chomsky last week. "They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what's next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it."In Haiti and Bolivia, Chomsky went o ... More >>

Shibori Cut Loose

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above"Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above," said Noam Chomsky last week. "They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what's next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it."In Haiti and Bolivia, Chomsky went o ... More >>

Vive Minnesota celebrates growing Latino influence on state culture

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above"Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above," said Noam Chomsky last week. "They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what's next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it."In Haiti and Bolivia, Chomsky went o ... More >>

Savage Love

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above"Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above," said Noam Chomsky last week. "They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what's next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it."In Haiti and Bolivia, Chomsky went o ... More >>

Bill Young/ Colleen Thomas & Co.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above"Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above," said Noam Chomsky last week. "They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what's next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it."In Haiti and Bolivia, Chomsky went o ... More >>

Reggaetón Animal

Immigrant dreams, dirty dancing, and the revolution: Meet the new Latin hip hop of Maria Isa and Danny y Elliot

Doctor, Bill Thyself

For Minnesota hospitals, sick immigrants mean an unhealthy bottom line

City Pages finds Che Guevara

For Minnesota hospitals, sick immigrants mean an unhealthy bottom line

The outer limits of empire

For Minnesota hospitals, sick immigrants mean an unhealthy bottom line

Sink or Swim

A Marxist historian and New Orleans native talks about how disasters foster solidarity

A Whole Different Ballgame

Baseball, steroids, and MLB's Latin plantations

Uneasy Riders

In 'The Motorcycle Diaries,' Che Guevara traverses the political topography of Latin America

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

The very voluptuous world of comics artist Gilbert Hernandez

No Pain, No Gain

It's not torture when Americans are doing it

And The War Came

Planet America: Our world and welcome to it

South Park

The Walker's "Ultrabaroque" frolics in a funhouse of Latin American art

The Gospel According to Carol Johnson

Minneapolis's top teacher keeps the faith in trying times

A Certain Ratio: Early; and Various Artists: In the Beginning There Was Rhythm

Minneapolis's top teacher keeps the faith in trying times

Risky Business

Startup.com makes a mint out of a losing proposition

Forbidden Fruit

The recent blockade of Cuba has only made its classic cinema all the more enticing

Eastern Standard Time

While Western art cinema draws the flashbulbs at Cannes, contemplative works from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong leave the festival glowing in klieg lights from the East

Coming Unglued

After years of controversy, St. Paul's H.B. Fuller pulls the plug on anaddictive adhesive

David Toop: Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World

After years of controversy, St. Paul's H.B. Fuller pulls the plug on anaddictive adhesive

Family is Relative

If in America a young man moves in with a fifty-year-old woman to whom he is not related, we call it suspicious. But in the Dominican Republic, they simply call it family

Man With a Movie Camera

Indie-film maverick John Sayles shoots his new Latin American civil-war movie guerrilla-style

Pulling the Plug

Indie-film maverick John Sayles shoots his new Latin American civil-war movie guerrilla-style

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

Indie-film maverick John Sayles shoots his new Latin American civil-war movie guerrilla-style

Friends of Al

Alumni of the Gore campaign money machine include an Energy Department staffer who turned the department's multibillion-dollar toxic-waste cleanup fund into a political pork barrel.

Out of Africa

FINCA's average Third World loan is just $190, while here seed money can run to thousands of dollars, says program head Kim Hunter.

How Little Asia Was Born

Bad city planning in the late 1970s led inadvertently to Nicollet Avenue's rebirth as the most vital ethnic

So Much More Than a Game

Nike's dissection of "The Jordan Moment"

Notes on '96

Nike's dissection of "The Jordan Moment"

Drugs, Contras, and the CIA:

Press Covers for the Agency's Honor

The $800 Million Men

Press Covers for the Agency's Honor

Cinephilia

Press Covers for the Agency's Honor

Book Roundup

Press Covers for the Agency's Honor

Atun Alba:

Cocaine, Tuna, and Free Trade

Mitstubishi and Me

Cocaine, Tuna, and Free Trade