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  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Five songs that sound like screws tightening

    Sometimes pop and rock songs are at their best when the grooves are especially spiral-like or boa-constricted, when melodic ecstasy and sonic claustrophobia combine to create something amazing. This week, 5ingles explores that idea with five recent jams that aren't trying to make you listen passivel ... More >>

  • News

    April 25, 2012

    The Terrorists Next Door

    National security laws have transformed America's most vulnerable immigrants into terrorists

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    What restaurants are the Twin Cities missing?

    Kris DrakeNow that Subo's closed, we need a place for Filipino-style grilled snapper!​While Twin Cities restaurants offer an abundance of some global cuisines, they're missing some critical dishes--and entire regions. Here are five types of restaurants the Hot Dish finds sorely lacking, severa ... More >>

  • Music

    October 13, 2010

    Gorillaz, Temper Trap, Sufjan Stevens, and more

    Kris DrakeNow that Subo's closed, we need a place for Filipino-style grilled snapper!​While Twin Cities restaurants offer an abundance of some global cuisines, they're missing some critical dishes--and entire regions. Here are five types of restaurants the Hot Dish finds sorely lacking, severa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2010

    Nomeansno

    Kris DrakeNow that Subo's closed, we need a place for Filipino-style grilled snapper!​While Twin Cities restaurants offer an abundance of some global cuisines, they're missing some critical dishes--and entire regions. Here are five types of restaurants the Hot Dish finds sorely lacking, severa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2010

    2011 Saint Paul Almanac Release Party

    Kris DrakeNow that Subo's closed, we need a place for Filipino-style grilled snapper!​While Twin Cities restaurants offer an abundance of some global cuisines, they're missing some critical dishes--and entire regions. Here are five types of restaurants the Hot Dish finds sorely lacking, severa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    Bone Thugs-N-Harmony bringing 'E. 1999 Eternal' to the Mainroom

    ​Joining the ranks of many other artists who have done tours performing seminal works (Mission Of Burma, Devo, the Pixies, Sparks, Steely Dan, Rush, Voyager...), Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will be bringing their multi-platinum, career-defining E. 1999 Eternal to the Mainroom in September.

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Video: Chuck Suchy tonight at Ginkgo Coffeehouse

    The North Dakotan farmer and singer has been called "One of the great undiscovered treasures of contemporary American folk music."

  • Articles

    September 16, 2009

    Trapped Inside Burma

    The North Dakotan farmer and singer has been called "One of the great undiscovered treasures of contemporary American folk music."

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2009

    Trapped Inside Burma

    The North Dakotan farmer and singer has been called "One of the great undiscovered treasures of contemporary American folk music."

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2008

    Breakfast of Champions 8/8: Burmese Democracy

    The North Dakotan farmer and singer has been called "One of the great undiscovered treasures of contemporary American folk music."

  • Calendar

    August 6, 2008

    Karen of Burma

    The North Dakotan farmer and singer has been called "One of the great undiscovered treasures of contemporary American folk music."

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2008

    Dragon Festival

    The North Dakotan farmer and singer has been called "One of the great undiscovered treasures of contemporary American folk music."

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2008

    Tibetan Freedom Torch Relay

    The North Dakotan farmer and singer has been called "One of the great undiscovered treasures of contemporary American folk music."

  • News

    November 21, 2007

    Tutu Speaks

    The Nobel Laureate deemed too offensive by the University of St. Thomas offers his thoughts in an exclusive interview

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2007

    Breakfast of Champions: 11/14

    The Nobel Laureate deemed too offensive by the University of St. Thomas offers his thoughts in an exclusive interview

  • News

    November 14, 2007

    Final Refuge

    Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2007

    Final Refuge: Expanded Web Content

    Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2007

    Darfur: Documenting Genocide

    Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2007

    Camp Darfur

    Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2007

    Darfur: Documenting a Genocide

    Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2007

    7/3 Morning Communiqué

    Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

  • News

    January 31, 2007

    The New Voyageurs

    Wherein six Minnesotans brave the Mekong River, whirlpools, and dysentery in a leaky boat with a lawnmower engine held together by toothpaste and cardboard and live to tell about it

  • Music

    December 27, 2006

    2006—the Year the Superstar DJ Died

    Dinosaurs rule the dance floors no more

  • Columns

    June 14, 2006

    Free Will Astrology

    Dinosaurs rule the dance floors no more

  • Restaurants

    March 29, 2006

    March Madness

    Eat Street Malaysian Restaurant Peninsula is a perfect antidote to late-winter blahs

  • Arts

    December 7, 2005

    Off The Cliff

    Gremlin's 'On the Verge' stumbles through time

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2005

    Tetes Noires founder Polly Alexander dead at 47

    Gremlin's 'On the Verge' stumbles through time

  • Columns

    April 20, 2005

    Free Will Astrology

    Gremlin's 'On the Verge' stumbles through time

  • Arts

    December 10, 2003

    War Games

    Fighting Spielberg's battles from your bean bag

  • Music

    November 20, 2002

    Mission Impossible

    After a 19-year hiatus, punk legends Mission of Burma reach for their revolver again

  • Books

    November 20, 2002

    Road To Baghdad

    Polemicist Christopher Hitchens follows George Orwell into a political minefield

  • News

    July 17, 2002

    Body Vs. Soul

    This branch of the rainbow family includes women rebuilt as men, gals who were born guys (some of them lesbians in male bodies), cross-dressers, drag queens, and some folks who say gender no longer means much

  • Books

    May 15, 2002

    Viva Vin Weber

    A Minnesota tie to the ill-fated coup in Venezuela

  • Books

    April 10, 2002

    Andrew Marshall: The Trouser People

    A Minnesota tie to the ill-fated coup in Venezuela

  • News

    January 5, 2000

    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?

  • Arts

    January 13, 1999

    For the Record

    The music industry released 30,000 albums in 1998. You can live without 29,990 of them.

  • News

    May 20, 1998

    Tigers' Keepers

    A real-life fairy tale in which the wild beasts are hunted, the jungle is a plantation, and the knight in shining armor hails from Apple Valley.

  • News

    August 27, 1997

    Ghost in the Machine

    Eighteen Months in the Info-Quarry.

  • Restaurants

    April 24, 1996

    Elegant Is as Elegant Does

    Eighteen Months in the Info-Quarry.

  • Restaurants

    December 6, 1995

    Down-Home Gourmet

    Eighteen Months in the Info-Quarry.

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