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Kevin Bozeman

Dessa, Field Report, Solid Gold headline First Avenue's SXSW 2013 day party

Music fans heading down to Austin, Texas in March for this year's SXSW should mark the afternoon of Friday, March 15 on their schedule. Gimme Noise has partnered with the Current and Etix, as well as two of the Midwest's most revered music venues, our own First Avenue and Madison's Majestic Theater, ... More >>

Wisconsin Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton lived double life as prostitute, worked in Mpls

Three-time Olympian and nine-time NCAA champion Suzy Favor Hamilton has confessed to leading a secret life as a high-end prostitute since December of last year.SEE ALSO:-- Minneapolis sixth-horniest city; St. Paul considerably less aroused, study finds-- Woodbury and Edina rated as top extramarital ... More >>

Minneapolis residents have top average credit score in America, says Experian

We ride bikes and go skinny dipping in urban lakes. And when we stop for a beer on the way home and charge it to our credit card, we pay that thing down more promptly than folks anywhere else in the country. According to Experian's latest analysis of credit scores across the country, Minneapolitans ... More >>

Matt Mueller's tremendous passion for life and music remembered by friends

See Also:Matt Mueller, former Pachyderm Studio owner, dies in car accidentMatt Mueller, a businessman, father of two, and music devotee with strong ties throughout the Midwest, was tragically killed in a traffic accident on Monday evening. He was 42, and was best known in the Minnesota community as ... More >>

Night Moves share "Country Queen," announce Colored Emotions release show

See Also: Night Moves reveal Colored Emotions tracklist and release date Night Moves on hotel living, song facelifts, and the new 7-inch Local retro-rockers Night Moves have kept the Twin City music community (and the rest of the world) waiting patiently for their Domino Records release of their de ... More >>

Summer Set's Jack Trash on SoundTown, EDM, and building Midwest memories

See Also:SoundTown and Minnesota's music festival fatigueSoundTown 2012 has been canceledSummer Set Festival 2012 lineupThis past Tuesday, Gimme Noise delved into the cancellation of the SoundTown Festival, and the implications for other festivals here in the Twin Cities. Somewhat overlooked in all ... More >>

The Onion stops printing in Twin Cities, closes A.V. Club in four markets

Today marks the final day of The Onion's local presence in the Twin Cities. Both the print publication of the satirical newspaper, owned by the Pioneer Press, and the companion A.V. Club coverage of local arts and entertainment have closed for financial reasons, according to A.V. Club's Jason Zabel. ... More >>

We Are the Willows tour diary, Vol. 22

Related:We Are the Willows tour diary Vol. 21Tour Diary archiveMy name is Peter and I write and play tunes under the name We Are the Willows. What follows are some thoughts and stories about being on the road playing music. Since returning home from my three-month-long tour last summer, I've manag ... More >>

Local competitive eater tries to break chicken salad sandwich world record today [VIDEO]

Eric Dahl is literally eating for his education.The 21-year-old Delano native is currently in his senior year at the University of Wisconsin, where he's studying to earn a degree in computer science. Like many other students, Dahl works during the week to help fund his school costs. But the way he d ... More >>

Doomtree release "Bangarang" video before starting enormous U.S. tour

​As the Doomtree crew are all getting psyched for their sprawling 2-month-long U.S. tour which starts tomorrow night, they dropped a lighthearted, no-frills video for "Bangarang," one of the most rousing tracks on their recent No Kings album. The clip features all the members of the Doomtree colle ... More >>

Polica debuts new video for "Lay Your Cards Out" on Jay-Z's Life Times site

​"Lay Your Cards Out," the first video from Polica's debut album, Give You The Ghost, made its premiere today via Jay-Z's Life Times online site. The mostly black and white clip, which is directed by Minneapolis resident Chris Hadland, features ghostly images of Channy dancing along to the groo ... More >>

Katherine Windels ordered to stop threatening Wisconsin Republicans

Katherine Windels got carried away.​There's no doubt that pro- and anti-union forces used almost every trick in the book during the assembly battle over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's bill to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. But while there was a lot of shouting, scre ... More >>

Hennepin County: Not so healthy, but it could be worse

It looks pretty healthy, right?​Hennepin County is the most populous county in Minnesota. It encompasses a city that regularly breaks the Top 10 in all sorts of quality of life studies. But if you want the healthiest county, you're going to need to look west. According to a University of Wisc ... More >>

James Beard Awards finalists announced

​The field has further narrowed, and we have two Twin Cities chefs among the final contenders for the James Beard Awards' Best Chef Midwest. Drumroll, please........:

We Are the Willows tour diary, Vol. 14

​Chicago deep dish pizza!!!!!!  That's basically all my brain had been able to think about for about two weeks before I played in Chicago.  I got into town, and immediately found a place to get some.  I ate three pieces and then I almost exploded.

Minnesota Republicans want to be like Wisconsin

Is it time to protest in St. Paul?​After introducing a bevy of union-busting bills, Minnesota Republicans are sure starting to look like their Tea Party-ing Wisconsin counterparts. One measure, authored by Waseca Sen. Mike Parry, calls for the state--as well as local county governments and schoo ... More >>

10 memorable McDonald's discontinued menu items

Ever try an Onion Nugget?​As we researched this week's cover story on Buffalo wings, we stumbled across all kinds of fun facts--including some fast-food products that were flash-in-the-pan ideas, or generally ill-advised. Perhaps some of these blasts from the past even made an appearance in yo ... More >>

Scott Walker tanking in another Wisconsin poll [UPDATE]

Scott Walker is falling in the polls.​There's more bad poll news for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who insists he's going to stand firm in his budget battle to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. Rasmussen Reports is out with a new survey of Wisconsin voters showing that ... More >>

Scott Walker: Wisconsin has buyer's remorse

Maybe Wisconsinites are embarrassed by Scott Walker's epic phone fail.​Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker gives his big budget address today in Madison, where he's expected to defend not just trying to neuter public employee unions, but also slashing funding for public education and local ... More >>

Wisconsin senate Democrats getting homesick, Republican says

Sen. Scott Fitzgerald says some of the 14 Democrats want to come home.​As long as 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats stay on the lam, GOP Gov. Scott Walker can't push his controversial union busting bill through the Legislature. So he threatened again today to start laying off 1,500 public sector ... More >>

"Boobies" banned in Wisconsin middle school, ACLU alerted

Banned in Wisconsin.​The "I Heart Boobies" breast cancer awareness bracelets that made Fairmont High School officials blush last September have now been banned at Wisconsin's Sauk Prairie Middle School. And thanks to seventh-grader Kaisey Jenkins' older sister, the American Civil Liberties U ... More >>

200 cows drop dead on Wisconsin farm

Martin CathraeWhy did 200 cows drop dead on a Wisconsin farm?​Add this to the list of spooky animal deaths this month: 200 cows have up and died of causes unknown in Stockton, Wis. There's also no explanation yet as to why thousands of blackbirds fell dead out of the sky in Arkansas on New Year's ... More >>

James Armour leaves toddler with his dead girlfriend

Photo: Richard RuddleJames Armour left his kid in a motel room with his dead mom.​James Armour kinda, sorta thought his girlfriend might be dead when he left his 18-month-old son in her care. But he was late for work and didn't have time to make sure. Armour rose as he usually did for work at ... More >>

Wisconsin Culver's gunslingers secure their rights

Photo: Willie LunchmeatOn the menu in Wisconsin​Five pistol-packin' strangers recently scared the dickens out of a 62-year-old woman at a Madison Culver's, and she called the cops. But now the cops are the ones who are in trouble. They'd walked into a piece of Second Amendment street theat ... More >>

Carleton, Macalester rated among nerdiest U.S. campuses

Carleton College, where nerds rule.​Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth eat your hearts out. Some of the biggest college brains in the country, who go to class just for the sheer delight of exercising their cerebral cortex, can be found at Carelton and Macalester colleges. Rating website Unigo arrive ... More >>

Ruth Stewart, 105, wastes away in Margaritaville

Via WikipediaRuth Stewart nibbled on some cake and tippled a Margarita​Her hearing's going, although her friends seem to think her memory's OK. Still, on Ruth Stewart's 105th birthday -- she was born on the Fourth of July -- she needed a frozen concoction to help her hang on. Here's a woman w ... More >>

Top 10 forbidden foods

WikipediaDon't eat that: Dog meat cooking in Southeast Asia​ Earlier this week came news that a homeless man named Nathan J. Kittoe, in Madison, Wisconsin, was in trouble with police for attacking a woman in a local park for trying to stop him from killing a goose, which he was planning on hav ... More >>

Wisconsin homeless man Nathan J. Kittoe dines on park geese

Via WikipediaFleeing Kittoe?​We will resist the temptation here to claim that we've found a solution to two problems: Feeding the homeless, and ridding public parks of geese that insist on crapping everywhere we try to sit and relax with a cold adult beverage on a hot summer's day. That said, ... More >>

Wisconsin homeless man Nathan J. Kittoe dines on park geese

Via WikipediaFleeing Kittoe?​We will resist the temptation here to claim that we've found a solution to two problems: Feeding the homeless, and ridding public parks of geese that insist on crapping everywhere we try to sit and relax with a cold adult beverage on a hot summer's day. That said, ... More >>

Minerva Lopez sentenced in starvation and beating of daughter

Minerva Lopez will spend 20 years behind bars​Minerva Lopez told police she beat her teenage daughter with a broomstick, a metal rod and a frying pan, scalded her with hot water, choked her, cut her wrist with a kitchen knife and bit her face. Now the 33-year-old Madison woman is going to pri ... More >>

Three Wisconsin breweries you should know (if you don't already)

For all the exciting news recently on the Minnesota beer front, there's arguably just as many cool things going down in the land of cheese to our east. While the state's beer history is impressive (and includes a little company you may have heard of called Miller), the real action is what's being br ... More >>

Sleepy Monster trucker Beant Singh Gill charged after bomb false alarm

Photo: jontintinjordanThe cops say Beant Singh Gill was sleepy. Maybe he should have cracked a Monster​Remember Beant Singh Gill, the sleepy Canadian trucker we told you about last week who brought down a full-fledged Hurt Locker scene in rural Wisconsin? He's been charged in a Monroe County c ... More >>

Sleep-deprived Monster drink trucker mistaken for bomber

Photo: jontintinjordanThe cops say Beant Singh Gill was sleepy. Maybe he should have cracked a Monster​Evidently Beant Singh Gill, of British Columbia, doesn't speak much English. And he drives a semi-trailer when he hasn't had enough sleep. Erratically, too, according to police. Which is how ... More >>

Ben Ivascu on crushing the drums: Nine bands, no waiting

Photo by Erik Hess​"Ben is kind of The Dude....he's a maniac and he holds it down so hard." High praise from Stef Leron "POS" Alexander, but drummer Ben Ivascu lives up to the hype every single time he plays. And chances are that he's playing right now. In a set of cities blessed with some o ... More >>

Vampire Hands and Daughters of the Sun announce 7-inch and spring tour

Photo by Nikki Miller​Two popular local psych rock bands, Vampire Hands and Daughters of the Sun, are preparing to leave on a massive month and a half tour of the US. The two bands are also getting ready to release a split 7-inch (preview the first track on the Modern Radio site), which will drop ... More >>

Minneapolis is 80th drunkest U.S. city; St. Paul is No. 87

Sometimes, we're happy to let the folks from Wisconsin have the upper hand.

Trampled by Turtles announce new album, tour

The bluegrass quintet will release Palomino on April 13.

Allison Pottinger going for curling gold at Winter Olympics

U.S. women's curling team hopes to win big in Vancouver

Brother Ali announces new album, release show

His new record, Us, will hit stores September 22.

Two local bars make Food & Wine's top 100

Drumroll, please...

Feb. 19, 2009: Solid Gold, Muja & Pennywise

New Solid Gold video, new Daughters of the Sun, updated Heiruspecs dates & Pennywise to play the Myth.

How The Onion made it

It's easy for us here in the Midwest to remember when The Onion was just a small publication making its mark out in Madison, Wis.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Before the Law

A lawyer, a bartender, a modern classical guitarist, and a drum teacher rock out in Cougar

Rijsttafel Ramblings

Dear Dara answers questions, both asked and unasked, about the foods you seek

Body Rock

Heads and Bodies take off their clothes, shower in beer, and shake what punk rock gave them

Of Micronauts and Men

The coolest toys of the 1970s return to our universe

No Rock Stars Need Apply

A Hangdog Comeback From the "Other" Dylan

Bring in the Noise

From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety