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  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Sen. Gretchen Hoffman's bogus tweet about mental health "idiots and imbeciles" [VIDEO]

    Sen. Gretchen Hoffman twisted Sen. Barb Goodwin's words beyond recognition via Twitter.​Republican state Sen. Gretchen Hoffman may be facing an ethics probe, after tweeting that DFL Sen. Barb Goodwin had disparaged the mentally ill as "idiots and imbeciles." Goodwin said nothing of the sort. ... More >>

  • Movies

    December 22, 2010

    The Coen brothers' True Grit

    The boys take their tongues out of their cheeks for this one

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Baratunde Thurston at MIMA: Interview with the social media personality

    Photo by Dewey Koshenina ​ When Baratunde Thurston took the stage in the Hilton ballroom at the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association summit yesterday, he led with a Jucy Lucy joke. "I'm in the place where they put cheese inside a hamburger," he said. "Doesn't that offend like 90% of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Lily Coyle's Strib letter to Robertson from Satan goes viral

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • News

    November 19, 2008

    Readers respond to "Strike Anywhere"

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Calendar

    September 3, 2008

    Punch Brothers

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Music

    September 3, 2008

    GZA and more

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2008

    Bill Maher

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2008

    Wild West Frontier Fest

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Calendar

    May 7, 2008

    Fashioned

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Columns

    January 30, 2008

    Free Will Astrology

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Columns

    August 8, 2007

    Free Will Astrology

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Columns

    October 25, 2006

    Free Will Astrology

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2006

    Happy 4th of July

    Like so many people, Lily Coyle was appalled at the televangelist's twisting of history for his own ends.

  • Movies

    June 7, 2006

    Not So Hot...

    Air conditioning helps as sequels and remakes compete for your summer movie dollar

  • Columns

    October 12, 2005

    It's All About the Benjamin

    He didn't just invent the Franklin planner: What a Founding Father has to tell us about modern Medievalism

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2005

    The sound of the earth collapsing

    He didn't just invent the Franklin planner: What a Founding Father has to tell us about modern Medievalism

  • Columns

    March 16, 2005

    Free Will Astrology

    He didn't just invent the Franklin planner: What a Founding Father has to tell us about modern Medievalism

  • Columns

    February 23, 2005

    Free Will Astrology

    He didn't just invent the Franklin planner: What a Founding Father has to tell us about modern Medievalism

  • Books

    November 17, 2004

    Hip Hip Hooray

    Is it cool to write a book about being cool in America?

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2004

    Hip hop is doomed, but hip is forever

    Is it cool to write a book about being cool in America?

  • News

    May 12, 2004

    Nuke 'Em!

    Xcel energy spearheads a high-stakes plan to store nuclear waste on a tiny, dirt-poor Indian reservation in the Utah desert

  • Arts

    November 5, 2003

    Instant Spectacle: Just Add Bowlers And Bulgarians

    Jim Stowell gilds the Lily; 15 Head paints a pretentious picture

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Protest and Survive

    Novelist and historian Tariq Ali on the war and the antiwar movement

  • News

    February 12, 2003

    The Sex Issue

    Novelist and historian Tariq Ali on the war and the antiwar movement

  • Arts

    January 2, 2002

    The Devil Went Down to Austria

    Mortality, Free Will, and Getting a TV Job

  • Sports

    December 13, 2000

    The Rebirth of the Undead

    Jake Esau brings Count Dracula and classic horror back to local broadcast television

  • News

    May 31, 2000

    Who Wants to be a Senator?

    Forget free trade with China, privatizing Social Security, and that pesky debate about campaign-finance reform. Here’s everything you really need to know about that gaggle of Minnesotans who are vying for a six-year stint in Washington.

  • Books

    December 8, 1999

    Stick and Move

    Forget free trade with China, privatizing Social Security, and that pesky debate about campaign-finance reform. Here’s everything you really need to know about that gaggle of Minnesotans who are vying for a six-year stint in Washington.

  • News

    December 1, 1999

    Ink by the Teacup

    Dodie Shallman had something to say about Cambridge's scandalous debt, beastly taxes, and the clowns who got the town into this mess. With the dirt-dishing Observer, the doyenne turned her crusade into news.

  • Books

    March 3, 1999

    Once Upon a Time in the West

    Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Jack Crabb, returns to the saddle and the great legends of the frontier

  • Arts

    April 15, 1998

    Touch of Evil

    Three is the (un)lucky number: Margot and Tony Wendice (Suzanne Koepplinger, J.C. Cutler) welcome Max Halliday (Terry Hempleman) into their unhappy home in Dial 'M' for Murder.

  • Books

    April 1, 1998

    Apology Refused

    Three is the (un)lucky number: Margot and Tony Wendice (Suzanne Koepplinger, J.C. Cutler) welcome Max Halliday (Terry Hempleman) into their unhappy home in Dial 'M' for Murder.

  • Music

    November 19, 1997

    Honky-Tonk Angel No. 638

    Nashville's newest cover girl Shania Twain hits the showroom floor.

  • Restaurants

    August 20, 1997

    Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

    Nashville's newest cover girl Shania Twain hits the showroom floor.

  • News

    July 31, 1996

    Harold S. Kahm

    the self-declared "oldest and least-known writer in Minnesota,"

  • Books

    July 24, 1996

    Black Humor and Gray Matter

    the self-declared "oldest and least-known writer in Minnesota,"

  • News

    December 27, 1995

    Artists of the Year

    Makers who mattered in 1995

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