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Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators at The Brick, 5/14/12

Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators With Brand New Sin and Hillbilly Herald The Brick, Minneapolis May 14, 2012 Monday night's Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators performance was the much-maligned Brick's first high-profile show since the unmitigated disaster that Jane ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty's ads are working so well he's not running them anymore

Moments like this will be missing from Iowa televison.​Tim Pawlenty's campaign ads have made us laugh, they've made us cry. They've confused us, they've scared the hell out of us, they've induced our seizures. Now, they're going away.In the clearest sign yet that the Pawlenty for President campaig ... More >>

R. Kelly's top 5 most ridiculous lyrics

​If somehow you're not familiar with R&B superstar R. Kelly, here's the basic rundown: 1) He has one of the most beautiful tenors in all of pop music, and 2) He's a sex addict. Probably. At the very least, Kelly has an unabashed fascination with erotic encounters of the freakiest variety, and ... More >>

Ronnie's Kids

Today, “amnesty” is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

The Wet Spot: Making the ultimate home sex tape

What do Patrick, R. Kelly and Dustin Diamond have in common? Way more than we wanted to know.

A 30-year-old history of pop music tops this week's pop culture picks

The Harder They Come

Almost anything goes in 'Shortbus'

Toronto '06: Shut Up and Shoot

'Death of a President' and other film fest trigger-pullers blow away dissent

Free Will Astrology

Artists of the Year

Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

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Free Will Astrology

Talk Of The Town

A trifecta of impending restaurant openings, and one departure

Kentucky Fried Horse

Leave your family. Throw away your money. And don't worry. You'll never regret having done it.

Suck Our Tailpipe

Shoot the Messenger in the Sexy Pontiac G6

My Face, Your Ass--or Your Legs, Arms, or Back

The Brian Kelly Army: It's not just a job, it's a tattoo

Dwindling Resources, Diminishing Expectations

Twin Cities teachers talk about how their schools and classrooms have changed

The Hospital of Last Resort

A budget squeeze at HCMC means diminished medical care for those who can't go anywhere else

The Foreigner

On the road to 20th century suffering with photographer Werner Bischof

Atari Teenage Riot

Over Space Invaders bloops, A.R.E. Weapons launch a new kids' crusade

A.R.E. Weapons: A.R.E. Weapons

Freedom Fries Are Not Enough

The Two Towers

Spike Lee's '25th Hour' rings in the new New York

2002 Through Food-Colored Glasses

Dear Dara's year-end wrap-up

Beauty and the Beast

Tim Burton's outsider art survives even the brute commercialism of Planet of the Apes

Saving Stanley Kubrick

With A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg tries to rescue the world's most elusive filmmaker from an unhappy ending

For Your Eyes Only

Tramps Like Us

Born to shun polite society, the Menstrual Tramps treat punk like a fishnet-stocking and pogo-dancing party

The Adventures of Kira Obolensky

The author of the Adventures of Herculina may have stumbled upon her career, but the results are anything but awkward

Lost In Space

How can you sample the Statue of Liberty? What is Wile E. Coyote standing on when he runs off a cliff? Solving the riddles of the universe with digital artist Paul Higham

An Encyclopedia of Little Abominations

Emily Carter's flirtation with drugs led her from Park Avenue to a bad marriage with the festering streets of New York's Alphabet City. Now, in a collection of stories, Carter recalls the ABCs of addiction--and spells out the terms of a new life in Minnea

Geek Squad

X-Men puts its superhero "muties" in charge of flattering the core audience

Big Hands, Warped Minds

The creators of the erstwhile Mystery Science Theater 3000 find a new home on the Web

Torch Song

A one-man, three-ring circus named Chris Wells takes his monumental muse on the road in Liberty!

The Fox Hunt

Rupert Murdoch's minions chase "reality" with a sympathy for law and order and an appetite for destruction

MERIDEL LESUEUR

Horses, catgut, and beer

The Bar at the Edge of the World

Four years ago Lee's Liquor Lounge was just another dying neighborhood bar. Then this guy Nate calls the owner, Louie, and the place turns into--well, no one is quite sure what. But there's nowhere else like it.

The Cabinet of Dr. Clinton

Plan 1999 From Outer Space

Independence Day restores order to the millennium.

If These Walls Could Talk

The history of an entire city echoes through the empty rooms at 3044 Third Avenue South.

My Nails, Myself