Occupy Wall Street

Rock the Garden 2013 lineup

The 2013 Rock the Garden lineup is out there. The Current and the Walker Art Center have unveiled a grouping of bands that hopefully will not raise the ire of too many local op-ed writers, and two the big names for the spectacle are staples of the station, Metric and Silversun Pickups.The event take ... More >>

John Lennon tribute, Public Enemy, and more

Public Enemy

Two Minnesotans 'hack' Amazon's wedding registry to create successful Sandy relief effort

In the midst of the damage and chaos left in Hurricane Sandy's wake, two native Minnesotans found an ingenious way of establishing a little bit of order: a wedding registry.Recent transplants to New York via Minneapolis, John Heggestuen and Alex Nordenson were looking for a way to volunteer their ti ... More >>

Dan Deacon at the Cedar, 11/3/12

Dan Deacon With Height With Friends, Chester Endersby Gwazda, and Alan Resnick The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis November 3, 2012 The typically sedate Cedar Cultural Center played host to an untamed dance party on Saturday night, as Dan Deacon brought his unorthodox electronic sounds and bound ... More >>

Dan Deacon on life in America, Occupy Wall Street, and the music industry

Dan Deacon is in the middle of nowhere. When he answers his phone, his tour bus is somewhere between Cheyenne and Denver -- a long, flat stretch of road surrounded by endless miles of brown fields. Off in the distance, the Rocky Mountains loom large, but here closer to the Wyoming-Colorado border, t ... More >>

Occupy Minnesota fights the banks

Organization builds a tight-knit national community while preventing foreclosures

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Laurie Anderson

Occupy Homes MN staging debt protest on one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

SEE ALSO:-- Occupy Homes celebrates new victories with party and conference-- Occupy Homes can't defend Cruz family home from third eviction attempt-- Occupy Homes activist Nick Espinosa helps save his mom's Mpls home from foreclosure-- Occupy Wall Street's Anniversary: The Greatest Photos One year ... More >>

Paul Ryan's Rage Against the Machine love is destined to be unrequited

See Also:Rage Against The Machine: The Battle of Minneapolis, part deuxBrother Ali to join Tom Morello at rally to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott WalkerDeep within a recent New York Times profile we discover that Mitt Romney's running mate Paul Ryan is a Rage Against the Machine fan. While the Wisconsi ... More >>

The Dark Knight Rises: Full of action but missing the fun

The latest Batman spectacle seems self-important and overstuffed

Dan Feidt, producer of DRE drug scandal video, talks about Occupy, police, and the war on drugs

Dan Feidt is the journalist and producer primarily responsible for MK Occupy Minnesota, the video making the explosive allegation that Minnesota officers have offered Peavey Plaza protesters drugs as an enticement for participation in the State Patrol's now-suspended Drug Recognition Expert program. ... More >>

Brother Ali on Occupy Homes and the foreclosure crisis

Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment and is one of our 20 Best Minnesota Musicians. His latest album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, will be released in August. Here are portions of an interview discussing the Occupy Homes movement, which Ali wil ... More >>

Brother Ali: My fans are kicking the sh*t out of me over Trayvon Martin

Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment. His latest album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, will be released in August. Here are portions of an interview following the One Million Hoodies March for Trayvon Martin held March 29 at the University of Minn ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Jeff Magnum, Lenny Kravitz, and more

Jeff Mangum

Man on a Ledge goes thud

Sam Worthington flops in center role

Doomtree's No Kings spurs week-long rap party at First Avenue

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Joseph Arthur talks about getting an R.E.M. breakup text from Michael Stipe and protesting on Wall Street

​Joseph Arthur is a low-key type of guy, having gone vastly unnoticed and living humbly as the existence of a shy folk-star; one whom everyone's heard of, but nobody really knows.

Occupy MN website hacked

OccupyMN.org died briefly on the table.​Occupy MN devotees awoke this morning to find the group's website OccupyMN.org was down. All that was left was a blank iPage with the words "This site has been suspended." According to Occupy MN spokeswoman April Lukes-Streich that's because some malicious ... More >>

Occupy MN: Vikings punter Chris Kluwe voices solidarity with 99 percent

Chris Kluwe appreciates porn stars, political protest.​Chris Kluwe is the Vikings' lovably off-the-wall punter, who is best known for his love of World of Warcraft and his bass playing for local metal band Tripping Icarus. When he puts on the pads and helmet, he's also a pretty good punter.But now ... More >>

Jeremy Messersmith, Hastings 3000 join in the Occupy movement

Photo by Nick Vlcek​As Occupy Wallstreet and our own local version, OccupyMN, wear on, more and more Minnesota musicians are asserting themselves as vocal members of the 99%. Over the past few weeks, artists ranging from hip-hop acts Toki Wright, Sean Anonymous, and Guante to R&B maven Mayda t ... More >>

Margin Call movie review

Tone-deaf portrayal of 2008 financial crisis

US Bank announces record profits

US Bank has enough money to buy five stars -- and a small planet.​Hey, all you Occupy Wall Street and Occupy MN kids, can you keep it down for a minute? US Bank is trying to count its money, and you're distracting them.Exhibiting the best worst timing of this young decade, US Bank reported its thi ... More >>

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, out of Iranian prison, join Occupy Movement

Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal: Free, and protesting.​Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal spent more than two years locked up in Iran, a country with some of the most restrictive free speech rights in the world. Now that they're back in the United States, Bauer and Fattal are flexing their First A ... More >>

Michele Bachmann, on phone call with Donald Trump, accidentally endorses Occupy Wall Street

Michele Bachmann, Donald Trump: Press star-three and reach for the stars.​Michele Bachmann held her surprise-party tele-townhall with Donald Trump last night, allowing the two of them to show off their finest skills. Trump, as is well known, is probably the hardest blowing blowhard in American pol ... More >>

Rick Ross health scares, a big change in the Sonic Youth dynamic: A look at the week that was

​Hey! Yo! What's up? The Week That Was is back. Sure, we've been away for a good long while, but too much crazy shit's gone down this week. Enjoy!

Occupy MN will defy sheriff's orders, set up tent camp on Saturday

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these occupiers.​Occupy MN organizers announced this morning that contrary to the agreement they had with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department, they will begin erecting tents and shelters tomorrow afternoon in the Government Plaza. This ... More >>

Occupy MN: How to buy a solidarity pizza for protesters

​Mike Fry has been eagerly anticipating the kick-off of Occupy MN -- the Occupy Wall Street solidarity protest in the downtown Government Plaza -- for some time now. There's just one problem. He's the executive director of Animal Ark and when at work, needs to not smell and look like someone who ... More >>

Occupy MN and TakeAction Minnesota storms Wells Fargo [UPDATE]

​This week, Minneapolis will be witness to a confluence of local protest entities, starting today at 11 a.m., when organizers from TakeAction Minnesota will converge at the Government Plaza and try to woo Occupy MN participants into following them in a march to the Wells Fargo Center. It probabl ... More >>

Kanye West crashes Occupy Wall Street, says nothing, still makes headlines

​Kanye West has never been one to let a big, zeitgeist-y moment pass without seizing and babbling narcisistically through it. So it comes as something of a shock that at the Occupy Wall Street protests the other day, he let hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons do all of his talking for him, which in rap ... More >>

Jesse Ventura joins kick-off of Occupy MN [VIDEO]

​The occupation of the Hennepin County Government Center Plaza has begun and one of the first people on the scene was former Governor Jesse Ventura. Amid the earliest few dozen occupiers setting up their tables and camps, Ventura held court amid a gaggle of media and fans to make a brief statemen ... More >>

Occupy MN protesters march to the Fed [VIDEO]

​As their numbers increased in the Hennepin County Government Center Plaza this afternoon, more and more chatter rose among the Occupy MN crowd about marching to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The Fed was the originally planned occupation destination, but organizers worried that arrests ... More >>

Occupy MN gets law enforcement OK for occupation of Government Plaza

​In a series of meetings held over the past couple of days, Occupy MN organizers have received tentative approval for their plans to camp out in the Hennepin County Government Center plaza starting tomorrow at 9 a.m. The plaza is public property, but organizers still met with the Hennepin County ... More >>

Beastie Boys will fight for your right to wear Chuck Taylors

​Are you a stone Beastie Boys fanatic? Did you unironically have "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn" tattooed on your lower back? Do you need some shoes? Do you have $200 to spare? If all of the above things are true about you, then Ad-Rock, MCA, and Mike D have some news you might be interested in: they've ... More >>

Democracy Now! reporters win settlement for arrests during 2008 Republican convention

​That Nicole Salazar videotaped her arrest is both fortunate and unfortunate.It's fortunate because that same tape just helped Salazar, a producer for the Democracy Now! news show, and two other journalists win a settlement in their lawsuit against the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul for bad po ... More >>

Astronautalis at the Triple Rock, 10/3/11

Photos by Meredith Westin​Astronautalis October 3, 2011 Triple Rock, Minneapolis Andy Bothwell probably wakes up and breathes enigma. The talented rapper, known as Astronautalis, is two weeks into his six-week fall tour, which comes hot on the heels of the release of his fourth full-length al ... More >>

Courtney Love's memoir: 20 questions it should try to answer

​Late last week, word broke that Courtney Love is writing - or co-writing, or dictating, or bashing out in innumerable typo-strewn MySpace blog posts to be deciphered later, or whatever - her memoirs. 

Occupy Wall Street protest coming to Minneapolis

​Occupy Wall Street, the broad-based protest that unsettled New York and resulted in hundreds of arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend, is spreading to Minneapolis this week. The local version of the protest will officially start at 9 a.m. on Friday, when organizers plan to fill the Henn ... More >>