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Kona beer enters Minnesota market, ends tour at Psycho Suzi's tonight

Kona Brewing Co., the largest craft brewery in Hawaii, is ending its four-city "liquid tour" of the Midwest tonight with a party at Psycho Suzi's Motor Lounge in northeast Minneapolis. The Hawaiian-themed road tour was intended to promote the Kailua Kona-based brand and announce its arrival on the M ... More >>

Bike Score drops Mpls's ranking to second, maps most and least bikeable spots in the city [IMAGES]

Back in May, Walk Score, the website that assigns walkability grades to addresses across the country, branched out into Bike Score. For that first phase, Bike Score looked at just ten cities and rated them between 0 and 100. Minneapolis topped the list with a 79, nine points higher than runner-up Po ... More >>

The Helio Sequence on negotiations, flash floods, and producing

The Helio Sequence may not be a household name, but they are a band to keep on your radar. The Portland, Oregon band is comprised of only two members, Brandon Summers on vocals and guitar and Benjamin Weikel on drums and keyboards, yet have the magnetism of a full band. Touring in support of their n ... More >>

More bike kudos: Outside mag names us one of the continent's top 10 cycling cities

Minneapolis has garnered top bike marks from Walk Score, League of American Bicyclists, Shermans Travel, and most prestigious (and controversial), Bicycling magazine.See Also:- Portland douses some Haterade on Mpls after regaining Bicycling.com's Best Bike City honor- Freedom From Pants: Patriotic n ... More >>

Night Moves share "Country Queen," announce Colored Emotions release show

See Also: Night Moves reveal Colored Emotions tracklist and release date Night Moves on hotel living, song facelifts, and the new 7-inch Local retro-rockers Night Moves have kept the Twin City music community (and the rest of the world) waiting patiently for their Domino Records release of their de ... More >>

CeCe McDonald supporters throw Molotov cocktail at Portland Wells Fargo

A group claiming solidarity with Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald, a transgender woman who recently pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in Hennepin County, is taking credit for an unlit Molotov cocktail found inside a Wells Fargo in Portland, Oregon last week. The bank manager found the homemade ... More >>

Bike Wars: Portland beats Minneapolis

But we're still healthy and sober

The Lower 48

Rogue Valley tour diary, vol. 6: Comfort zone

​Rogue Valley's tour diaries are written by frontman Chris Koza and edited by bandmate Peter Sieve. You can read their first, second, third, fourth, and fifth installments.Everyone slept in late the next morning, Portland was its grey, soaking wet, bone-chilling wintery self, but despite the unin ... More >>

Rogue Valley tour diary, Vol. 3

​Rogue Valley's tour diaries are written by frontman Chris Koza and edited by bandmate Peter Sieve. You can read their first installment here and second here.Most of us in the van slept on our two-our northbound drive from Cottage Grove to Portland, OR, where we would be spending the night. I ... More >>

Olivia Tremor Control coming to the Varsity on September 12

​Athens-based indie rock forerunners and psych-pop purveyors Olivia Tremor Control re-emerged last fall with their first track in over a decade, "North Term Reality," and it was enough to spark the interest of fans of the early-'90s experimental rock band and spurn more recording projects and a pr ... More >>

Twin Cities are fittest in America

Lake of the Isles runners plow through Snowmageddon.​The day the blizzard deflated the Metrodome, there were runners slogging their way around Lake of the Isles. The day the tornado ripped through north Minneapolis, there were cyclists zipping along the Greenway. Is it any wonder we took the ... More >>

Loretta Lynn: Happy 73rd (75th? 79th?) Birthday!

​She's been secretive about the year, but on April 14th 1932, or '36, or maybe '38, Loretta Webb was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, and grew up the daughter of a coal miner first in a rustic mountain home with no electricity or water, and later in a four-room house down in the holler.

Britney Spears and Enrique Iglesias coming to Xcel July 6

​This summer's arena calendar is already filling up, with Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and Journey coming to the Xcel, plus shows by Usher, Rihanna, Sade, and the aging pop version of Voltron, NKOTBSB, coming to the Target Center. To add to the spectacle, Britney Spears is throwing her hat in the rin ... More >>

Def Leppard and Heart coming to Minnesota State Fair

Photo by Nikki Miller​Time to enter into the musty depths of your closet and find that old acid-washed jean jacket and tattered rock tee (or just head to Hot Topic, I guess) -- you're going to have the perfect place to wear that stuff this summer. As if the State Fair weren't already the ideal sp ... More >>

Atmosphere announce 21-date 'Family Tour'

Photo by Dan Monick​With their seventh full-length album, The Family Sign, due out April 12, Atmosphere have announced a 21-date 'Family Tour' that will kick off April 20 in Colombus. The tour doesn't include any local dates just yet (the group will complete their five-date loop of the outer areas ... More >>

Mohamed Osman Mohamud bust wasn't entrapment by any legal definition

Image by Jenny Cestnik on FlickrBomb Target: the Christmas Tree at Pioneer Square in Portland​There's plenty of hot air online right now about this weekend's arrest of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the 19-year-old kid who got caught trying to detonate what he thought was a bomb at a Christmas tree lighti ... More >>

Twin Cities way more relaxed than the rest of America

Photo: MuladProof that Twin Citians know how to relax.​We do stress out over things here on the tundra. Look at the Vikings, for crying out loud. Or Michele Bachmann. And don't even get us started on the fact that we have yet another election recount with national import on our hands. But com ... More >>

The Dandy Warhols

"Dangerous By Design" ranks Minneapolis first in pedestrian safety

Photo: Andrew KelsallMinneapolis want you to walk​You want to die trying to cross the street? Move to Florida. At the very least, head south of the Mason-Dixon line. If you don't want to take your life in your hands while out for a stroll, just stay right here in Minneapolis. That's what the g ... More >>

National Poetry Slam 2010 day 3 wrap-up, day 4 recommendations

​The third day of prelims in the 2010 National Poetry Slam was even more bustling with energy than the previous two nights. City Pages camped out at Wild Tymes for the first bout between Denver, CO; Irving, TX; Manchester, NH; and Orlando, FL. The crowd was sparse towards the beginning--so much so ... More >>

The Lower 48

Minneapolis-St Paul rated cleanest metro by Travel & Leisure

It's a clean machine​"Maybe it's the eight miles of covered skyways that keeps trash off the streets and parks," writes Travel and Leisure magazine. "(Or maybe it's an out-of-sight, out-of-mind thing.) Regardless, America's Favorite Cities survey takers voted the Twin Cities as the country's c ... More >>

Nice Ride Minnesota gets some bike sharing mojo

Photo: 13 Of Clubs/FlickrWe are not on the fence when it comes to Twin Cities bicycling​Dear Street Films folks: What the heck do you mean, "surprising?" "In a surprising choice, the May edition of Bicycling Magazine named Minneapolis America's best city for biking. The city still trails Port ... More >>

Lookbook announce headlining show at First Avenue

Photo by Stacy SchwartzLookbook at the Bowie tribute night Rock for Pussy​While there's no sure-fire way to concretely measure a band's success, there are a few major stepping stones that seem to symbolize a local band's ascent: The first time they sell out a show, the first time their song is pla ... More >>

Minneapolis is America's best bike city

Photo: Mykl Roventine​So says the latest edition of Bicycling magazine, on newsstands now, but not yet online. Steve Friedman crowns One on One Bicycle Studio on North Washington "the epicenter of all things two-wheeled," and owner Gene Oberpriller as "the godfather of the Minneapolis bike sc ... More >>

New Land of Milk and Honey

The Builders and the Butchers

The world's longest wiener

Just in time for baseball season:The World's Longest Hot Dog. Extra added bonus: The World's Longest Hot Dog Bun. Hot diggity!

Death Bed Radio

"These are our talk hosts' last words, and they make each one count"

Atmosphere skips Minneapolis (gasp!) on new tour

Psssh. It's like THAT?

Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper

The Songs We Can't Escape

Blitzen Trapper

Q&A: Starfucker

Bikes vs. Cars

Plenty of Do-Gooders Here

Bicycle Master Plan Open House

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

New Chef Rising

Love Relocates a Great Chef to Minnesota and the Mall's Napa Valley Grille

Anarcho-Hobo Army Takes Downtown

7/4 Morning Communiqué

Scorched Earth

The Thermals react to life during wartime

Riot Redux

Swan Island emerge from recently charted waters

Dizzee Rascal tour dates

Ballad of Big Nothing

An Elegy for Elliott Smith, 1969-2003

Ma Cable?

In St. Paul and its suburbs, an unlikely coalition battles telecom giant AT&T

Last Train Out

Hobos have been hopping freights since the Civil War. Now a new generation of riders is hitting the tracks--stockbrokers, students, and the occasional serial killer.