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Melissa Maerz

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Chuck Klosterman irks tUnE-yArDs' fanbase, while likely enlarging it

    via Instagram @centralalley​Some people are mad at hair metal 'n' NBA critic Chuck Klosterman at the moment. This has to do with "The Pitfalls of Indie Fame," published yesterday on ESPN-offshoot commentary site Grantland regarding the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop 2011 album of the year, Tune-Ya ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Friends Like These announce reunion show, remastered album

    ​There's something oddly appropriate about the first Friends Like These show in several years happening on Friday the 13th.

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Transmission celebrates 10 years with a gig in the Mainroom

    Photo by Stacy Schwartz​DJ Jake Rudh has spent the last decade cultivating a dedicated following of friends and fans at his weekly dance nights. What started out as Destination Unknown at the Chatterbox Pub in 2001 has since evolved into Transmission, a Wednesday-night house gig that has bounced a ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2010

    Alec Soth, Kevin Kramp, Robyn, and more: Artists of the year

    Influential artists of 2010

  • News

    December 23, 2009

    Aby Wolf, K'naan, and P.O.S. top Artists of the Year '09

    Paying homage to those who speak the language of creativity

  • News

    December 24, 2008

    Matt Weiner

    Paying homage to those who speak the language of creativity

  • Feature

    December 26, 2007

    Running with Diablo

    Hollywood's hottest screenwriter talks about the price of fame, life in the film biz, and her early days at City Pages

  • News

    September 26, 2007

    Par's Parting Shot

    The ousted publisher goes out like a trust-fund punk

  • Television

    May 9, 2007

    Message in a Bottle

    For TV's Ian Rans, there's no such thing as an unhappy hour

  • News

    December 27, 2006

    Artists of the Year

    For TV's Ian Rans, there's no such thing as an unhappy hour

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2006

    Top 10 Films of 2005 (plus many more)

    For TV's Ian Rans, there's no such thing as an unhappy hour

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    Artists of the Year

    Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2005

    "The death of 'alternative media' part two"

    Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

  • Arts

    October 5, 2005

    Sweet Sixteen

    Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen'

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2005

    Ice-Rod is back

    Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen'

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2005

    Gawker crashes Klosterman's party

    Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen'

  • Movies

    May 11, 2005

    Dig If You Will The Picture

    Filmmaker Agnès Varda reads a lot into her work

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Artists of the Year

    12 Rods, Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Quentin Tarantino, Garrison Keillor, MF Doom, Lawrence Lessig, Randi Rhodes...

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    Feeling Minnesota

    The 10 (or 28) best local albums of 2004

  • News

    November 24, 2004

    Picked to Click

    To those who have recently begun to rock, we salute you

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2004

    The Brian Wilson Debate at City Pages

    To those who have recently begun to rock, we salute you

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2004

    Get on the bus to the Minnesota Music Awards

    To those who have recently begun to rock, we salute you

  • News

    August 11, 2004

    Fringe Festival Reviews

    To those who have recently begun to rock, we salute you

  • Arts

    August 4, 2004

    We Were Wrong

    City Pages writers look back on 25 years of arts criticism, and the sentences that still make us cringe

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    The Soundtrack of Our Lives

    The Best Albums in the World Ever!! Okay, Maybe Just in This Town, Circa 2003

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Local Music Yearbook '03

    We Sang. We Danced. We Set things on Fire. And Sometime after the Bar Closed, We Wrote It All Down for You.

  • News

    December 10, 2003

    Meet The Bartenders

    We Sang. We Danced. We Set things on Fire. And Sometime after the Bar Closed, We Wrote It All Down for You.

  • Arts

    September 24, 2003

    Score

    Underground movies and rebel music hook up in the Sound Unseen Festival

  • News

    September 17, 2003

    Everybody Wins

    Polls and punditry for the best new bands in town

  • News

    June 11, 2003

    Comics Issue

    Polls and punditry for the best new bands in town

  • News

    April 2, 2003

    Where to Aim, When to Shoot

    Film as a weapon in a time of war: Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival coverage.

  • Arts

    March 26, 2003

    Don't Mess With Excess

    Film as a weapon in a time of war: Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival coverage.

  • Music

    December 25, 2002

    Have Yourself a Strange Little Christmas

    Snow in Africa, thieving Santa, and porn under the tree

  • Music

    December 18, 2002

    Personal Bests

    The Year's Local Favorites

  • Music

    December 18, 2002

    A Local Music Yearbook

    Two cities, twelve months, a million reasons to rock!

  • News

    September 18, 2002

    Picked to Click XII

    Hail the Conquering Heroes: Polls and Praise for This Year's Best New Artists

  • Arts

    September 18, 2002

    Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun

    Audiences chew on a film-fest twofer: Central Standard's indie films and Sound Unseen's musical movies

  • Arts

    August 7, 2002

    City of Sideshows

    Amid all the carnival barking of the fringe, we tell you which tent shows deserve your ten bucks

  • Music

    July 3, 2002

    Come On, Feel the Noise

    The music of Lightning Bolt and Erase Errata speaks volumes

  • News

    May 22, 2002

    The .14 Cent Solution

    New royalties proposed by the music industry threaten to kill independent Internet radio

  • Music

    April 10, 2002

    Dear Mr. Hawaii Dude

    Steve Barone discusses hair dye, eyeliner, cheese

  • Arts

    April 10, 2002

    Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

    The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival's Middle Week Has Hits, Sleepers, and Snoozers

  • News

    February 27, 2002

    24

    We sent a team of trained researchers and documentarians into the wilds of the Twin Cities in search of music in its native habitat. Here are the field notes from Friday, February 15--the day that would not end.

  • Arts

    February 13, 2002

    Love Songs, Nothing but Love Songs

    Musicians and critics discuss their favorite aural aphrodisiacs

  • Arts

    January 2, 2002

    The Year in Music

    The Sound of Music, 2001: Our Favorite Things

  • Arts

    September 26, 2001

    Sonic Outlaws

    The second annual edition of “Sound Unseen” highlights the subversive side of music making in the era of media consolidation.

  • News

    August 8, 2001

    "Don't Ever Say (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Onstage Again!"

    Audiences storm the stage. Actors suffer gastrointestinal distress. Backstage confessions of theater gone terribly, terribly wrong.

  • News

    July 25, 2001

    Purple Hazy

    In the past year, Prince has become a Jehovah's Witness, bitched about the record industry, canceled a national tour, and delayed the release of his new CD. But he doesn't want to talk about it.

  • News

    May 9, 2001

    Picked to Click

    The 11th Annual City Pages New Music Poll

  • News

    December 27, 2000

    Artists Of The Year

    From escapist entertainment to aesthetic ecstasy: Twenty-nine writers script valentines to twelve months of culture

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