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Local Frames: New videos from Cloud Cult, the Ocean Blue, Enemy Planes, and more

As the Twin Cities music scene grows, more and more artists are creating music that demands our attention. Combine the music with talented filmmakers locally and beyond, and you have a fruitful mix of distinct skills that generates more locally connected music videos than ever before. While it's im ... More >>

Keith Ellison books #GetOutToVoteMN rap concert at First Avenue

Brother Ali, Atmosphere's Slug, and Dessa top a huge lineup of local hip-hop talent signed on for a voting advocacy show at First Avenue later this month.The show is courtesy of Keith Ellison for Congress, and therefore it'll will be a platform for the local politician to get up and rap a bit himsel ... More >>

Kluwe on scab refs: NFL's reputation 'tarnishing faster than a sailor's virtue in a $2 whorehouse'

Vikings punter Chris Kluwe is rallying to the defense... of the Green Bay Packers?SEE ALSO:-- Packers screwed by replacement refs: 'NFL needs to come to GB and apologize for fucking us' [VIDEO]-- Vikings-49ers replacement ref fiasco: 'Frisco gets extra timeouts, phantom challenges [VIDEO]Such is the ... More >>

Brother Ali in His Own Words

Opening up about everything from new album Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color to politics and religion

Expatriate's Adam Nero on switching from hardcore to Americana, and a new EP

Adam Nero does not immediately come across as the type of guy who would get behind a guitar and play some folky, genuine Americana. He's a clean-shaven, bespectacled fellow, dressed down in a sweater and dark denim -- the look is a little more "off-duty lawyer" than "grungy, tobacco-rolling country ... More >>

Cindy Pugh, candidate for state Rep., compares Muslim women to garbage bags

Tea Party candidate for state representative Cindy Pugh uses her Facebook profile to defend Scott Walker, criticize Barack Obama and boast about her ongoing campaign to defeat incumbent state representative Steve Smith, a Republican from Mound. But she also used it recently to compare Muslim women ... 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 >>

Scott Walker's "David Koch" phone fail: GOP seeks to outlaw prank calls

Republicans don't want anyone getting "Koch'd" again.​Two Wisconsin Republicans insist up and down that their bill to outlaw prank phone calls has nothing to do with their governor being humiliated by a blogger posing as billionaire GOP financier David Koch.

Betty McCollum promises to fight Michele Bachmann's bridge

McCollum promises to stymie Bachmann.​We have a congressional border spat. DFL Rep. Betty McCollum wants to know why, if Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the federal government are all broke, GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann wants to build a $700 million bridge over the St. Croix River. Bachmann, who complain ... More >>

Scott Walker defends union busting, gutting public school spending

Walker defends his budget.​Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stood before Wisconsin lawmakers yesterday, defended his union busting tactics against public workers, and then announced he wanted to gouge $1.5 billion out of the state's public school and local government aid spending. If he keeps this ... More >>

Wisconsin unions: The movie [VIDEO OF THE DAY]

A Wisconsin public employee makes his case.​We've seen a lot of news coverage out of Madison these past few weeks, but this is different. It's calm. Filmmaker Paul Iannacchino stood back from the craziness that's engulfed the Capitol, put his camera on a tripod, and asked people protesting Go ... More >>

Scott Walker: Wisconsin has buyer's remorse

Maybe Wisconsinites are embarrassed by Scott Walker's epic phone fail.​Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker gives his big budget address today in Madison, where he's expected to defend not just trying to neuter public employee unions, but also slashing funding for public education and local ... More >>

Wisconsin senate Democrats getting homesick, Republican says

Sen. Scott Fitzgerald says some of the 14 Democrats want to come home.​As long as 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats stay on the lam, GOP Gov. Scott Walker can't push his controversial union busting bill through the Legislature. So he threatened again today to start laying off 1,500 public sector ... More >>

Glenn Beck dropped by Madison radio station WTDY

Devoid of "actual content."​Glenn Beck has been booted off the air by Madison radio station WTDY-AM because he slagged on the broadcaster's hometown, and because of a "lack of actual content." Beck usually occupied the 10 a.m. to noon slot at a station that features a lot of business coverage fro ... More >>

Madison union supporters plan Minneapolis demonstration Monday afternoon

The rally starts at 4 p.m. Monday.​More than 1,000 people turned out on Saturday in St. Paul to demonstrate solidarity with union workers in Madison, and now a march has been scheduled for 4 p.m. today in downtown Minneapolis. A rally will begin at 4 p.m. at the Hennepin County Government Cen ... More >>

Scott Walker nears triumph: Wisconsin Assembly passes union-busting bill [UPDATES]

Walker's close to getting his wish.​Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is one step closer to getting his union-busting bill, now that the GOP-controlled state Assembly snuck in an early-morning vote on the measure while Democrats were caught flat-footed. Now if only he could get those pesky state Senate ... More >>

Keith Ellison urges Barack Obama to visit Wisconsin

Laurence O'Donnell interviews Keith Ellison.​President Barack Obama shouldn't just voice his support for public employee unions, he "should come to Wisconsin and stand with the workers," if he knows what's good for him, Rep. Keith Ellison said last night on MSNBC. The president has already a ... More >>

Pawlenty Reloaded: 2 Pawlenty 2 Furious

Matt VisionquestMore movie magic from Mr. Minnesota.​Sequels are de rigueur for movies these days, so it should come as no surprise that Tim Pawlenty is back with another action-packed trailer.It was only a month ago that Tim Pawlenty, former Minnesota governor and likely future presidential candi ... More >>

Gov. Scott Walker's "damage control" is laughable: Comment Of The Day

Punk'd​Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is dispatching state troopers again today in his never-ending effort to hunt down Senate Democrats. But elsewhere he's a laughing stock for having been punk'd into revealing his plans for trying to bust his state's public employee unions. "The 'damage cont ... More >>

Madison police chief, mayor troubled by Scott Walker's comments

Madison Police Chief Noble Wray.​There's more bad news for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker after his embarrassing conversation with a phone prankster posing as a billionaire Republican donor. Walker was caught in a very Nixonian moment admitting he'd thought about placing undercover troublemakers ... More >>

Mark Dayton promises no union-busting laws [UPDATE]

Mark Dayton supports unions in Wisconsin.​Gov. Mark Dayton told about 1,000 pro-union demonstrators in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday that he'd block any attempt by Republican legislators to pass a union-busting bill similar to the one raising a ruckus in Wisconsin. That bill, being pushed by ... More >>

Keith Ellison denounces "dictator" Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker [UPDATE]

Ellison joins in the debate over union busting in Wisconsin.​Rep. Keith Ellison, co-chairman of the congressional progressive caucus, ripped into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker this morning, lambasting him as a dictator for his attempt to strip public workers of their collective bargaining rights ... More >>

Scott Walker phone fail: Wis. governor falls for prank call you wouldn't believe [AUDIO]

Scott Walker falls for a crank phone call that is so fake you wouldn't believe it.​Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has fallen for a prank phone call, and in the process spent 20 minutes revealing his secret union-busting plans to the opposition. The prank call was made by the alternative weekly ... More >>

Ian Murphy prank call to Gov. Scott Walker didn't break law cause Wis. is one-party state

Did Ian Murphy break the law with his prank call to Scott Walker?​Everyone is talking about the 20-minute phony phone call in which Scott Walker unwittingly reveals his master plan to a liberal newspaper editor posing as a conservative financier.The Buffalo Beast, an alternative weekly, posted the ... More >>

Jon Stewart pillories GOP "ritual sacrifice" of Wisconsin unions, then hammers Democrats

Jon Stewart: Equal opportunity sarcasm.​Democrats and union members in Wisconsin hoping for some love from the reliably liberal Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" got a rude awakening yesterday. Stewart first took a shot at the Republican cheeseheads who are trying to neuter public employee unio ... More >>

Wisconsin 14 won't get paychecks until they come home

Mark RiechersThe Democrats are still on the lam.​Wisconsin Republican state senators can't get their 14 Democratic counterparts to show up and vote on a union busting bill, so they're pushing through a new rule that ends direct deposit paychecks for members. If the senators on the lam want to ... More >>

Bachmann wants Obama to be more like Wisconsin governor, but Americans don't

Whose side is she on?​Rep. Michele Bachmann is appalled that President Barack Obama has sided with public employee unions in Wisconsin opposed to a union-busting bill being pushed by Gov. Scott Walker. And she complained today on Facebook that Obama ought to be more like Walker when it comes ... More >>

Wisconsin 14 missing senator photos: Have you seen these politicians?

Gov. Scott Walker: Senate Democrats are MIA.​Fourteen Wisconsin state senators are on the lam, hiding from police trying to return them to Madison for a vote on a union-busting bill that none of them support. They were last seen hunkered down in an Illinois motel. Anyone with information as to t ... More >>

Bachmann vs. Obama on Wisconsin unions

Michele Bachmann wants the president out of Wisconsin.​Rep. Michele Bachmann told Megyn Kelly on Fox News this afternoon that it was admirable of former president Ronald Reagan to insert himself into the air traffic controllers strike of 1981 - and fire all the strikers. But she said it was d ... More >>

Wisconsin police hunt down Democratic senators over union-busting bill [UPDATES]

Photo: Mark Riechers/FlickrDemocrats abandon ship in Madison.​Republican Gov. Scott Walker wants to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights, and he's threatened to call out the Wisconsin National Guard on public employee union members if they go on strike. And now, ... More >>

Wisconsin will call out National Guard against striking state workers

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wants the National Guard for political muscle.​ The Kent State shootings happened 40 years ago, but one state failed to learn the lesson not to call in the National Guard on unarmed protesters. That state is Wisconsin. There, Gov. Scott Walker has declared that he' ... More >>

Coleman proposes schedule and start date for election trial

Norm Coleman's campaign filed more court papers today in their election contest, proposing a set schedule for the court to follo ... More >>

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