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Edina High School is Minnesota's best according to Newsweek, but that ain't saying much

'One-fifty-four! One-fifty-four!'That's not exactly the stuff of legends, but it represents the national ranking of Edina High, Minnesota's top high school according to Newsweek's new list of America's best 1,000 public high schools.This year's list focuses on "schools that have proven to be the mos ... More >>

Bemidji public TV upset about profanity in Newsweek

​Newsweek's decision to include more profanity in the magazine is creating a bit of a shit-show. In recent years, public broadcasters have helped the beleaguered magazine increase its circulation by offering subscriptions in exchange for donations. But some broadcasters are now rethinking their re ... 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 >>

Newsweek releases Michele Bachmann photo outtakes in attempt to prove she looks that crazy all the time

Michele Bachmann Newsweek photo outtakes​Newsweek today released a series of pictures featuring Michele Bachmann with crazy eyes in various locales, in an apparent attempt to prove that she looks that crazy all the time.The weekly mag has been taking heat this week for its bizarre cover image, whi ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's crazy eyes throughout world history [SLIDESHOW]

Michele "Mona Lisa" Bachmann: Eye, eye, eye. ​Michele Bachmann's bugged-eye Newsweek cover is captivating America. In fact, not one single person has yet been able to open the magazine and actually read the story, and the photographer who took the photos has probably entered some kind of treatment ... More >>

Michele Bachmann Newsweek cover: Queen of Rage [IMAGE]

Michele Bachmann on Newsweek​Michele Bachmann has truly made the big-time: She is featured on the cover of the  August 15 Newsweek.Of course, this may not be how she would have liked her close-up.The photo of Bachmann makes her look like some sort of manic street preacher. And the headline, " ... More >>

Newsweek: 9 Minnesota high schools among best in U.S.

Newsweek says Edina High School is the best in the state. Last year, the honor went to Minneapolis Southwest.​Nine Minnesota high schools have been named to Newsweek's list of the best high schools in the country this year, but none of them are in Minneapolis or St. Paul. We bring that up only be ... More >>

Marcus Bachmann, Mary Pawlenty named "First Mates" by Newsweek

Marcus Bachmann, looking quite deferential.​The Iowa caucuses are still three months away, we're about to enter the summer doldrums when nobody gives a damn about politics, and yet here we are with the nation's two largest newsweeklies foisting pablum on us in the form of softball "profiles" o ... More >>

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 >>

Barack Obama polls highest with Minnesotans in a year

Minnesotans kinda, sorta like this guy.​Just a hair more than half of Minnesotans approved of Barack Obama's job as president as of last week, according to a new Star Tribune poll. That's the highest poll rating Obama's seen in Minnesota in more than a year.

NAACP tells parents to abandon Minneapolis schools

​Angry over district a plan to close North High School, Minneapolis NAACP president Booker Hodges has called on city parents to abandon their public school system. But in North Minneapolis, the kids have already left: North has been targeted for closure in part because there aren't enough stu ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's a mama grizzly to Newsweek

Maybe Christine O'Donnell can teach Michele Bachmann a little witchcraft.​Newsweek has decided that Minnesota's Crazy Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is on a par with Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell and Nikki Haley when it comes to red-jacket wearing, right-wing loons. Makes sense, since she ... More >>

Newsweek takes Al Franken seriously

Image via FacebookA serious constitutionalist, or "the knee-jerk liberal everyone thought he would be?"​Al Franken's doodling and dozing at Elena Kagan's Supreme Court confirmation hearings last week created some web buzz and the usual criticisms of Senator Smalley. But when it came time for F ... More >>

Newsweek calls Southwest High School the best in Minnesota

​Never mind the crowded classrooms, the ancient facilities and the general lack of college campus-like opulence compared to its palatial suburban rivals: Southwest High School in Minneapolis is the best high school in Minnesota, according to Newsweek. Take that, cake eaters! The very best in ... More >>

Newsweek's Bachmann tweeter throws some punches

​Newsweek's Andrew Romano landed a weird assignment from his Newsweek editors last week: Fly to Minnesota, follow Michele Bachmann around as she campaigns for re-election in her district, and tweet about it. Weird not because it involved Bachmann, per se, but because Newsweek is a place one ... More >>

Newsweek's excellent Michele Bachmann adventure, Day 2

​Newsweek's Andrew Romano keeps up the tweets while traipsing around District 6 during Michele Bachmann's campaign stops masquerading as "jobs forums." "Seriously. These forums are very anti: anti-reg, anti-tax, anti-bailout. No fixes," he writes at the end of Day 1. "What will #Bachmann and ... More >>

Michele Bachmann fact-checked by Newsweek tweeter

​Newsweek's Andrew Romano is following Rep. Michele Bachmann around District 6 today as she hosts campaign stops she's calling "jobs forums," and for two days afterward. He's tweeting as he goes: "And so it begins - w/ a 6am flight. For the next 3 days I'll be following #MicheleBachmann and t ... More >>

Pawlenty keeps pitching right, headlines anti-abortion gala

The governor recently told Newsweek that it might be hard to be a presidential candidate in 2012 because nobody knows who he is.

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.

Tim Pawlenty makes Newsweek's "most intriguing" list

Pawlenty even jokes about the oddness of his inclusion.

Tim "nobody knows who I am" Pawlenty praises Sarah Palin

On running for president: "I have a PAC I set up. I'll just see. Nobody knows who I am."

"I'm a lovable little fuzz ball!" quote by Michele Bachmann makes Newsweek

Crazy Congresswoman Michele Bachmann offered that self-description in a recent MinnPost profile.

Lobbyists won't hesitate to break in Franken

Al Franken, who will likely be sworn in as Minnesota senator next week, has all eyes on him, even those pesky lobbyists who see him as potentially naive and impressionable.

28 Minn. schools make Newsweek's list of top public high schools

Check the list to see if your high school made the cut.

Newsweek covers Tony Kushner in Minnesota

The famed writer of Angels in America is sharing his spotlight.

March 11, 2009: Bob Mould & Brother Ali

Stream new Bob Mould, Dan Auerbach played the Current, Tapes 'n Tapes in DC & reactions to Brother Ali's new EP

Newsweek mentions L.A.'s "Golden Gopher" bar

Sadly, it is just a diversion on the way to the main course: Kogi, the world's first "viral restaurant."

Michele Bachmann makes Newsweek's dignity index

She puts the "L" in crazy.

Ex-Minnesota Somalis suspected of terrorism; Pawlenty goes for three-peat

Blotter brings you all the weird news that's fit to print

Minn. Somalis cancel public statement on disappearing youth

Imams, community leaders, and parents of Somali youth who have disappeared in recent months planned a press conference in response to recent media coverage. But disagreements led the organizers to cancel the event.

Newsweek: Were Minnesota Somalis recruited for jihad?

Al Franken must unleash "the full Norwegian"

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Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel keep City Pages afloat

We never thought a random update post on ... More >>

Viking dong makes Newsweek's quotes page

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Peter Max

Always bet on black: Oddsmakers pick Obama 3 to 1

4/26: Morning Communique

I Love the 80s: Did the U.S. train Iraq's death squads?

12/12: Morning Communique

Gagging Dr. Dean

Why does Howard Dean's own party consider him the most dangerous character in Washington?

6/10: Morning Communique

Who Is Kerry Edwards, and What Is He Running For?

Q: Are the Democrats really as stupid as they look?
A: No one is really as stupid as the Democrats look.

Dear Dara

Well-reasoned rants on mayonnaise, plagiarism, and the hoped-for demise of the pretend seaside

Touch Me, I'm Sick

Bubble Boy's comedy is not infectious

Shoot 'Em All!

Apocalypse Now Redux extends an epic allegory of American megalomania into the 21st Century

Jiggled, Not Stirred

In his 19th licensed escapade, Agent 007 appears reliably randy but rather tired

All Kiss and No Tell

Conspiracy Nation

Even the paranoid have real enemies.

Cinephilia, Eyestrain, Vertigo

This year's New York Film Festival kept movie buffs reeling.