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  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    The Munchies food awards include several local nominees

    The recipe-swap, dinner-inspiration, and food-porn website Tablespoon, recently announced nominees for the Munchies, their first ever People's Choice-style food and restaurant awards. They're  judged by an expert panel that includes hometown star Andrew Zimmern, and the nominees include well-kn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Rogue Valley tour diary, vol. 7: From saguaros to snowfall

    ​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, fifth, and sixth installments. Atalesca: 72 degrees.  Pismo Beach: 62 degrees. Ventura: 65 degrees. It was as perfect a day as one could expect ... More >>

  • Music

    February 8, 2012

    Critics' Picks: Starkey, the Darkness, the Best Love Is Free, and more

    ​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, fifth, and sixth installments. Atalesca: 72 degrees.  Pismo Beach: 62 degrees. Ventura: 65 degrees. It was as perfect a day as one could expect ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 8, 2012

    Playing for Change

    ​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, fifth, and sixth installments. Atalesca: 72 degrees.  Pismo Beach: 62 degrees. Ventura: 65 degrees. It was as perfect a day as one could expect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 10: The sea! The sea!

    ​The game is won on the field. Some bits of advice are impossible to follow to fruition. "The game is won on the field, Mallman." This is the kind of hodge-podge rhetoric that makes so much sense, you end up feeling like shit about yourself because you can never live up to it. Life is not won. If ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Rogue Valley tour diary, Vol. 1

    ​Rogue Valley is a Minneapolis-based theatrical folk-pop band who are currently on tour. On the road are drummer Luke Anderson, bassist Paul Engles, keyboardist Joey Kantor, guitar/vocalist Chris Koza and guitarist Peter Sieve. Their tour diaries are written by Koza and edited by Sieve. The road ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2011

    Jason Meyer and his get-rich gold scam

    Rochester man promised gold mines and made off with the cash

  • Arts

    March 24, 2010

    Strike-Slip (Theater spotlight)

    Rochester man promised gold mines and made off with the cash

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Elvis meets tacos, Fork the Fire, and dinner in Rochester

    ​I was in Anaheim for my day job this past weekend.  Our first meal was definitely forgettable, but the next night totally made up for it.  We hit up Azteca, an amazing Mexican restaurant that was, aside from the food, entirely devoted to Elvis Presley.  They were well known for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010
  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Baby Dee anounces new album, tour

    The mysterious singer songwriter will release an album in 2010 on Drag City, and will play the Cedar this April.

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett dead at 62

    Farrah Fawcett has passed away after a long cancer battle.

  • Restaurants

    August 6, 2008

    Why the Twin Cities is the best place to eat ice cream in the universe

    With this many choices of local, handcrafted treats, why go anywhere else?

  • Movies

    June 25, 2008

    Film Highlight: Queer Takes

    With this many choices of local, handcrafted treats, why go anywhere else?

  • Blogs

    December 25, 2007

    Five (times two) Songs About ... Christmas

    With this many choices of local, handcrafted treats, why go anywhere else?

  • Movies

    November 14, 2007

    Revelations

    Richard Kelly leaves nothing behind in his pop-packed apocalyptic pageant, Southland Tales

  • Movies

    June 20, 2007

    'Knocked Up' Player Hits Homer

    Writer-director Judd Apatow gets personal

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2006

    1/25: Morning Communique

    Writer-director Judd Apatow gets personal

  • Movies

    January 25, 2006

    Citizen Kane

    "Killer" is one of us in 'New York Doll'

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    Three Tracks, Echo, and a Bunch of Hungry Teenagers

    A short tour of some of the Twin Cities' historic recording studios

  • Arts

    July 14, 2004

    School of Funk

    Jimmy Jam was a DJ. Morris Day was a drummer. Prince was a kid with a huge afro. Before they changed popular music, Mom told them to turn that racket down.

  • Movies

    February 18, 2004

    It's All About Me!

    Asia Argento--daughter of Dario--does her daddy proud

  • Books

    December 10, 2003

    Down On Your Knees, Slave

    Submitting to the sadistic novels of Bruce Wagner

  • News

    April 2, 2003

    Where to Aim, When to Shoot

    Film as a weapon in a time of war: Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival coverage.

  • Arts

    September 26, 2001

    Sonic Outlaws

    The second annual edition of “Sound Unseen” highlights the subversive side of music making in the era of media consolidation.

  • Arts

    September 19, 2001

    The War of Art

    Independent filmmaker Kevin Zinniel and his Guerrilla Squad Productions are waging a fierce campaign to finish their second feature

  • Arts

    April 25, 2001

    Love vs. Country

    Independent filmmaker Kevin Zinniel and his Guerrilla Squad Productions are waging a fierce campaign to finish their second feature

  • News

    December 13, 2000

    Trial & Era

    When Sara Jane Olson goes to court in coming weeks, a Los Angeles jury will be asked to pass judgment on the most divisive time in recent American history.

  • Arts

    December 1, 1999

    This Rough Magic

    With bare-bones budgets and ambitious productions, Michelle Hensley takes theater off the stage and into the trenches

  • Music

    October 13, 1999

    Valley B-Boys

    L.A.'s Styles of Beyond make the suburbs safe for hip hop

  • News

    December 16, 1998

    Freeze Frame

    Forget Fargo and A Simple Plan: A quarter-century ago, The Heartbreak Kid had Minnesota down cold

  • News

    December 31, 1997

    Artists Of The Year

    We list the best of the best of 1997.

  • Art

    July 31, 1996

    Tongue Untied

    Poet Paul Beatty makes polyglot Americana with his debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle.

  • News

    June 5, 1996

    New technology is changing the way we hear music

    Poet Paul Beatty makes polyglot Americana with his debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle.

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