Magazines

Twin Cities have country's smartest, cleanest, most attractive people, says Travel and Leisure

Travel and Leisure has confirmed what we already know. In the magazine's annual Favorite Cities 2012 survey, readers compare 35 cities across the country, and Minneapolis and St. Paul took top marks in a full five categories.See Also:- 50 Shades of Minnesota: 50 reasons why Minnesota is sexy- Minnes ... More >>

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Karl Bremer, The New Republic settle lawsuit over Vennes photo

Last November, we reported that Stillwater blogger Karl Bremer had filed a civil suit against The New Republic, accusing the magazine of reprinting one of his photos without permission. Bremer tells us he has come to an agreement with the Washington, D.C.-based publication, and the two parties settl ... More >>

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Minneapolis Indie Xpo

Men's Health nominates the Gopher Bar for "Manliest Restaurant in America"

Is this the Manliest Restaurant in America?​In between advising readers on how to "Loose Your Gut" and get "Amazing Abs!", Men's Health magazine has taken on a new quest: To find the country's "Manliest Restaurant." To do so, they've nominated several standouts and put them up for a vote, inc ... More >>

Jon Stewart jabs Newsweek for Michele Bachmann cover photo [VIDEO]

Jon Stewart: Crazy words, not crazy eyes.​Jon Stewart has never been shy about taking on Michele Bachmann -- or her husband Marcus, for that matter. But Stewart thinks Newsweek magazine went too far, using what he thinks is a deliberately bad photo of Bachmann to run for its cover story in this we ... More >>

Roma di Luna highlighted in this month's Rolling Stone

Photo by Ben Stannard​A new issue of Rolling Stone magazine is out this week, and it shines a spotlight on local record store the Electric Fetus and their top-selling record, Roma di Luna's latest self-released effort Then the Morning Came. Channy and Alexei Moon Casselle's expansive folk project ... More >>

Zombie pin-ups and skulls featured in the 'Art Is Dead' show at Cuppa Java

Pernula and Yerks decorate for Halloween​Halloween-enthusiasts change everything in October--clothes become costumes, makeup turns gruesome, even giant cobwebs become acceptable home attributes. But what about art? Family photos can be scary enough, but not really in a Halloween way. Cuppa J ... More >>

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Twin Cities No. 1 for medical devices, 8th on quality of life

Minneapolis: we love being on lists​We love our place in lists, and we just topped a good one: we're number one for developing medical devices and technology, says Business Facilities Magazine in its July/August issue. The magazine also ranks Minneapolis 8th in the nation for both quality of life ... More >>

City Pages Comics Issue #4

Declaration of Independents

Zak Sally talks about the La Mano Report, Comic-Con, and the importance of the small press

photo via MNartists.org​La Mano is the small comics-oriented-not-delimited press owned and operated by Zak Sally, former bassist of Low and generally prolific guy who has organized the second annual La Mano Report at Eclipse Records this Saturday. Seven bands including Gay Witch Abortion and ... More >>

Zak Sally talks about the La Mano Report, Comic-Con, and the importance of the small press

photo via MNartists.org​La Mano is the small comics-oriented-not-delimited press owned and operated by Zak Sally, former bassist of Low and generally prolific guy who has organized the second annual La Mano Report at Eclipse Records this Saturday. Seven bands including Gay Witch Abortion and Marij ... More >>

Lindsey Vonn ditches "Minnesota nice" and takes a shot at Tiger Woods

The Apple Valley native couldn't resist taking a shot at golfer and serial philanderer Tiger Woods' marital problems.

Lindsey Vonn's Olympic hopes jinxed by Sports Illustrated cover?

If she doesn't compete, there are still plenty of Minnesotans to cheer on at the games.

Fridley kid Klingensmith named Star Tribune's new publisher

He brings with him two decades of media business experience at Time, Inc., as well as a more recent specialty: media mergers and acquisitions.

Pawlenty angers transgender group with Newsweek comments

The governor pisses off a national transgender rights organization with his assertion that little kids are going to be "confused" because of legislation he once signed.

Minnesota Law & Politics cover spoofs Metro Gang Strike Force

The controversial and defunct unit is likened to the cast of characters in "Reno 911" on the magazine's November cover.

Sports Illustrated ranks Eden Prairie athletics Top 10 in nation

Eden Prairie High School listed as No. 9 in national rankings.

Gay Beast written up in the New Yorker

If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

MTV News clip from exactly 15 years ago today

A chilling report from April 8, 1994, the day Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home.

Michele Bachmann makes Newsweek's dignity index

She puts the "L" in crazy.

Grease

Viking dong makes Newsweek's quotes page

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Clay Aiken and Reed Kelly: Claymates for life?

The Rake shuts down print publication

Heeb Salon: Urban Kvetch

Chaska makes Money magazine's Best Places to Live

Help!

Stephanie and Kelly Kinnunen didn't quit their jobs, sell off their worldly possessions, and move into a motel in order to launch a new magazine about patio furniture

Swift kick on the way out

Travel Leisure magazine names Minneapolis a travel hot spot for 2006

Spin and Vibe for sale

The blog "revolution": some numbers

The Road to Everywhere

Aaron Cometbus's 20-year journey into the heart of underground America

Sacred Cow Tipping

'Lavender' quibbles with Dibble

Off Beat

The Trickle-Up Theory

Long after the advent of the personal Web page, local zines and journals keep striving to change the world of writing with print runs of 200 copies

It's a Sista Thang

A local zine for the "go girls" on its way to making Gloria Steinem proud

Fun with Field Notes

Survival of the Hippest

Up close and personal with Ariel Gore, founder and editor of Hip Mama

ZINES: Bamboo Girl #6

ZINES: Temp Slave!

ZINES: VeX: Movies & Whatever

ZINES: Twelve Ounce Prophet

CD-ROM: Illusion

MAD About the Seventies by "The Usual Gang of Idiots"

All Kiss and No Tell

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