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Baby New Year’s Time Traveling Diaper Party

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 >>

Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 6

​Jared Diamond says the success of a given civilization is based on three things: "Guns, Germs, and Steel." What he means is, dont open your surf shop in Gary, Indiana, and dont dig for gold in your laundry hamper. If Diamond were to write a book on making it in the music industry, I highly doubt ... More >>

Plymouth residents freaking out over proposed mosque

Jeff Baumann said allowing the mosque would be "treason."​Last night, the Plymouth  Planning Commission held an open meeting to discuss a proposed mosque in the city. The meeting was supposed to be about land use and potential civil engineering questions, but instead opened the door for sever ... More >>

Keith Ellison breaks down in tears at Muslim hearings [VIDEO]

Ellison breaks down.​Rep. Keith Ellison spent weeks deriding the congressional hearings that opened today on radical Muslims, orchestrated by Rep. Peter King of New York, as little more than an attempt to spread fear and hatred of a religious minority. When it came his turn to testify and de ... More >>

Metallagher's New Year's Dyer's Eve

Ellison breaks down.​Rep. Keith Ellison spent weeks deriding the congressional hearings that opened today on radical Muslims, orchestrated by Rep. Peter King of New York, as little more than an attempt to spread fear and hatred of a religious minority. When it came his turn to testify and de ... More >>

Naked Cowboy to unseat Obama, defeat the Taliban, fight multiculturalism

Image courtesy of myspace.com/nycnakedcowboy​"Freedom-loving American" and the country's most famous skivvy-clad busker the Naked Cowboy has announced his 2012 bid for the Presidency.

Two tap dancing Sarah Palins to crash Weinfest

​(Le Cirque troupe members Buttercup and Katinka visit Times Square in NYC) Starting this Thursday, July 22, Black Forest Inn (1 E. 26th St., Minneapolis; 612.872.0812) will be hosting Weinfest, a 10-day festival celebrating wine with special tasting menus and live entertainment. Le Cirque Rouge C ... More >>

60 Minutes probes Somali terror ties in Minnesota

​60 Minutes yesterday featured an extensive probe into Minnesota's "Little Mogadishu" as a recruiting ground for fighters in the Somali civil war.After leading with the recently bungled Times Square bombing by an American citizen of Pakistani descent, CBS segued into a hard look at the case of 20 ... More >>

Garrison Keillor took in a Broadway show as Times Square was evacuated

What? Me worry?​"Prairie Home Companion" host and erstwhile St. Paul bookstore owner Garrison Keillor was nowhere near Lake Wobegon Saturday night. No sir, he was taking in a Broadway show near Times Square in New York City when the guy he cheerfully refers to as the "Incompetent Bomber" fai ... More >>

Film Highlight: Big Fan

What? Me worry?​"Prairie Home Companion" host and erstwhile St. Paul bookstore owner Garrison Keillor was nowhere near Lake Wobegon Saturday night. No sir, he was taking in a Broadway show near Times Square in New York City when the guy he cheerfully refers to as the "Incompetent Bomber" fai ... More >>

Fleet Foxes make beautiful sound at First Ave

The Seattle quintet played a breathtaking show last night.

John Lennon, Curtiss A, and walking the streets of New York City

Over the Weekend: 1/25-1/27

I Am LegendHas It

Poised

The Women of Sick of Sarah Stand Ready to Confront the Music Machine

Keep the Meter Running

The Women of Sick of Sarah Stand Ready to Confront the Music Machine

Freak, Out

Nicole Kidman makes an unconvincing Arbus in 'Fur'

Astoria Stayin' Alive

It's always Saturday night in 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints'

Blame Dick Clark

'TRL' feeds thin gruel to its audience; kids beg for more

What Would Jesus Buy?

The Reverend Billy brings his anti-consumerism theater to the MOA

Red Sauce Reverie

Southern Italian food goes over gangbusters in Southern Minneapolis

Various Artists: Radio India and The Conet Project

Southern Italian food goes over gangbusters in Southern Minneapolis

Do The Hustle

Broadway Books' library of larceny

Beyond Borders

Jim Sheridan turns on his heartlight for 'In America'

Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here's Neal Pollack

A snarky writer thinks he's America's greatest living punk

First Love

The legendary bands. The terrifying toilets. An oral history that goes so far behind the music it will leave you at a gun range beneath the stage.

Restaurant opening of the century, redux:

The legendary bands. The terrifying toilets. An oral history that goes so far behind the music it will leave you at a gun range beneath the stage.

Corpus Christi

The legendary bands. The terrifying toilets. An oral history that goes so far behind the music it will leave you at a gun range beneath the stage.

'Trane Travel

Jazz Tributes to Coltrane, Parker, and Hendrix

Kiss of the Spider-Man

Director Sam Raimi finds a superhero to love

Sonic Outlaws

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

Shmeer Job

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

Look, Sheryl: No Pictures!

A recommended reading list for people who live in big houses

The Beautiful Show

Making the Weinstein Gallery a success only starts with putting pretty pictures on the wall

Sound Check

Making the Weinstein Gallery a success only starts with putting pretty pictures on the wall

It's Giuliani Time

The new Shaft signs on to do the mayor's dirty work

Hamlet Machine

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

Success, on a Small Scale

While some monumental artists starve, Jason Barnett carves out a creative niche in the figurine business

The Year in Film

1999 brought a cinematic bounty to the art house and the multiplex alike

1923

1999 brought a cinematic bounty to the art house and the multiplex alike

National Essay Writing Contest Looks For What Kids Would Do To Make Their City Great

1999 brought a cinematic bounty to the art house and the multiplex alike

BOUNTY FOR MUTINY

Insurgency protector: ®™ark's unornamented Web site puts a price tag on agit-prop action

Paper Trail

How five loudmouth newsies built an information dynasty.

Kool Herc

Funky Dollar Bills: Herc and his manager talk marketing options

A Baedeker to the Twin Cities At Night

Funky Dollar Bills: Herc and his manager talk marketing options

Playing The Market

Funky Dollar Bills: Herc and his manager talk marketing options

LOST MINNIE-APPLE CORE FOUND!

Funky Dollar Bills: Herc and his manager talk marketing options

COUNTDOWN TO THE END

Funky Dollar Bills: Herc and his manager talk marketing options

A Life in Baseball

At 83, Angelo Giuliani is a talking book of Minnesota baseball lore.