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Top 20 best Minnesota musicians: #20-11

​Minnesotans need to remember to exhale sometimes -- especially fresh on the heels of being ranked as the number two music scene in the country. Shouldn't it be enough to simply enjoy a rich history of quality musicians blossoming from fertile local soil? For those times that worrying that people ... More >>

Wiping Out Thousands drop new video for "Mass Nerve"

​Local electroclash duo Wiping Out Thousands have been creating quite a stir within the Twin Cities music scene as of late. In addition to blowing everyone away with their recent opening set for Yacht at the Entry (where they essentially stole the show from the headliners), they have also gene ... More >>

Macalester President Brian Rosenberg appalled by Santorum

Macalester President Brian Rosenberg is appalled by Rick Santorum. The liberal arts college bigwig has come out against the Republican presidential candidate despite the potential for alienating his conservative alumni. Rosenberg spends part of a recently-published essay ruminating on the responsib ... More >>

Nice Ride Minnesota secures major funding for expansion

More lime green bikes coming to a neighborhood near you.​Nice Ride Minnesota, the bike share program that launched last June, is about to get a lot bigger. Thanks to a just-announced major infusion of cash, the program is ready to start implementing its Phase 2 expansion.

Joe P. Furth of Eclipse Records: providing records, all ages shows, and arcade games since 1999

"We've created loyalty that the other stores don't have," Furth says.

Laura Veirs and Hall of Flames

"We've created loyalty that the other stores don't have," Furth says.

Electric Fetus Reborn, Song of Zarathustra, and more

"We've created loyalty that the other stores don't have," Furth says.

Alex Lemon

"We've created loyalty that the other stores don't have," Furth says.

St. Olaf Christmas Festival: Lutherans can sing

Paulsen campaign accused of darkening Madia's skin in TV ad

10/14 Morning Must Reads

Five Questions For... Marie Wolf of breadbasketcase

Readers respond to "The Avenger"

Bye-Bye

Dara departs, and leaves a memoir in her wake

Silencing Peacemakers in the Middle East: Anti-Semiticism vs Critisizing Israel

Dara departs, and leaves a memoir in her wake

Wage War

On the eve of a new school year, a historic strike threatens to throw the U of M into chaos

Ruff neighborhoods: Minneapolis to add three off-leash dog parks

On the eve of a new school year, a historic strike threatens to throw the U of M into chaos

Get Rich with God

Pastor Mac Hammond's suburban megachurch preaches heavenly financial rewards in the here and now — if you've got the faith to give till it hurts

Mass Consumption

A once-local author talks about the perils of big-box retailers

Dear John

An architecture tour you can take with your pants around your ankles

The Wanted Man

When a couple of students objected to the course materials in Stephen Philion's race and culture class at Hamline University, he thought the trouble would pass. Wrong.

Clear Channel Rules the World

How a small chain of once-struggling radio stations grew into a giant of the media/entertainment complex

Bush's Awful Mess

I've served in Iraq, and that's why I can't vote for this president again

The Barbarian Invasions

An anthropologist's journey from a porn booth to the Mongolian steppes

Walking Wounded

In 'July, July,' Tim O'Brien bares the scars of the Vietnam generation

I Am What I'm Not

Malachi Constant take back whatever they said

Motherboard Connection

Dub Meets the Desktop in the Many-Sided Music of Triangle

Blessed Peacemakers

They'd seem quaint if they weren't so eloquent: Meet the University of St. Thomas's loudest rabble-rousers

Breaking Away

Local hip hoppers S.U.S.P.E.C.T.S. escape to Minneapolis from the streets of Pennsylvania

So you want to be a public servant?

You too could be mayor of St. Paul! Just answer a dozen of the most preposterous, frivolous, and insultingly direct questions you could ever hope to encounter in your whole squirming political life.

Gone Fishin'

You too could be mayor of St. Paul! Just answer a dozen of the most preposterous, frivolous, and insultingly direct questions you could ever hope to encounter in your whole squirming political life.

Of Human Bondage

Wang Ping's personal study on Chinese foot binding reflects on the pain of freedom

Everything Is Permitted

Where to go to make an electronic drum out of your pickup truck--and other secrets of alternative art venues

Won't You Be My Diner?

Where to go to make an electronic drum out of your pickup truck--and other secrets of alternative art venues

Control Group

In a new exhibition, Minnesota artists massage a mess of messages

When you wish upon a city

If you could wave your magic wand and make one improvement to the Twin Cities, what would it be?

Pub and Grub

If you could wave your magic wand and make one improvement to the Twin Cities, what would it be?

BLACK & WHITE... and Red All Over

Star Tribune honchos pooh-pooh insinuations that they're at war with that other paper across the river. So why is the Strib stomping all around the PiPress's back yard?

Staying Alive

Star Tribune honchos pooh-pooh insinuations that they're at war with that other paper across the river. So why is the Strib stomping all around the PiPress's back yard?

Very Bad Guy

Star Tribune honchos pooh-pooh insinuations that they're at war with that other paper across the river. So why is the Strib stomping all around the PiPress's back yard?

Goodnight, Walt Mink

Star Tribune honchos pooh-pooh insinuations that they're at war with that other paper across the river. So why is the Strib stomping all around the PiPress's back yard?

From Minneapolis to Mali

Star Tribune honchos pooh-pooh insinuations that they're at war with that other paper across the river. So why is the Strib stomping all around the PiPress's back yard?

Along Comes Jones

Todd Jones was tapped as only a temporary fill-in, but he's at the top of a very short list to replace U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Todd Jones was tapped as only a temporary fill-in, but he's at the top of a very short list to replace U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug

Bird Hunt

Todd Jones was tapped as only a temporary fill-in, but he's at the top of a very short list to replace U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug

Poster Punks

Todd Jones was tapped as only a temporary fill-in, but he's at the top of a very short list to replace U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug

Cafe Un Deux Huit

Todd Jones was tapped as only a temporary fill-in, but he's at the top of a very short list to replace U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug

A Vocabulary of Culinary Bliss

Todd Jones was tapped as only a temporary fill-in, but he's at the top of a very short list to replace U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug

Big Brother, Inc.

Why are businesses spying on their own employees more and more? Because they can.

What Becomes a Legend Most?

The Return of Walt Mink