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8/25 Morning Communiqué

A Beautiful Mind

Minnesota-born Paul Nelson was a '60s folk revival pioneer and a founding father of rock writing

The Spoiler

Consultant and candidate Hutchinson won't "shock the world"—but will he tip the race for gov?

Shore-to-shore salesmen

Allegory in the Making

Will the real MC Skat Kat please stand up?

A Real Rock 'n' Roll Radio Station... for Your Pledge of Just $10 a Month?

Paul Demko, Diablo Cody, and Dylan Hicks offer three takes on MPR's new baby

Local Music Yearbook '04

We crowd-surfed with R.T. We bar hopped on light rail. And between some of our precious last sucks on a cigarette at the club, we scribbled it all down on a cocktail napkin.

Don't Blame the Voters

The verdict on "values": It's a political advantage to have some

Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat

Still Smokin'

Dave Chappelle lights up the Orpheum stage; giggling ensues

Learning to Kill

What it takes to make it in funny business

Cover Girls

Go ahead and judge new poetry by its packaging

Crazy

The sad, strange case of Darren Odell and the sorry state of our insanity laws

Drink The Blue Monkey

Local smoothie maker Fresco eyes the big leagues

Damaged

Xcel Energy says hydroelectric power is clean and reliable. For the Pimicikamak Cree Nation, it constitutes an ecological, social, and moral catastrophe.

Mother Mary Blessed by Retail Chain

Copeland's orphanage to open at Supertarget

Out of the Box

Britney Spears's stardom intersects with something like freedom in 'Crossroads'

Buy Buy Love

American Pie 2 and My Generation find the youth of America ready to plunk down

Flat Pop

Lecherous teddy bears, chart-topping dummies, and hypersexed schoolgirls bubble up from the Walker's "Superflat" exhibit of Japanese art

Devil in the Flesh

Temptation Island and The Mole: Seven deadly sins of highly effective networks

Off Beat

Stuck in the Middle

Fox's most promising sitcom of the season offers a middle-class family comedy for the middle decades of the last century

Hamlet Machine

Michael Almereyda's contemporary Hamlet projects tragedy onto the screen of corporate culture

Haunted Haus

Fool's Paradise

Journey through the new Dark Ages of Shakopee Valley with the cowled, the corseted, and the coxcombed

Out of Characters

Same Steak, Different House

A Matter of Convenience

SuperAmerica is selling expansion at 40th & Lyndale. The neighbors aren't buying.

Home of the Free and the Brave

U.K. + TV = LOVE + $

Prime Product Placement: Reebok smells like Thorsten Veblen in a spot from the British Television Advertising Awards at Walker Art Center.

(Un)Holy Ones

Do This for the Remembrance of Me: Bob Flanagan in Sick.

BOOKS: Killer Instinct

MUSIC: Negativland

Everybody Wins

Ground Zero

Wedged between Target Center, the freeway, and the garbage incinerator, Currie Avenue is the terminal station for the city's unwanted.

Shock Treatment

It doesn't really matter whether he overtakes KQ and Tom Barnard. Either way, Howard Stern wins. And local radio loses.

Peeling the Onion

USA Today, Tomorrow the World: Inside the only humor publication that matters

So Much More Than a Game

Nike's dissection of "The Jordan Moment"

BALLOT BALLEYHOO

Last night, while the nation trembled in anticipation of momentous changes,

Twister

Twister wisely jumps the gun on the summer blockbuster season.

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