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Brother Ali, Britstock: Freeloader Friday

Gloria's Lobotomy by Rudy Fig​There's never a week in the Twin Cities without great free stuff to do. This week's hot happenings include an incredible lineup at the Pizza Luce Block Party (Brother Ali! Dessa! Pink Mink!), sugary sweet art by Rudy Fig and Jeff Warner over at the Gallery at Fox Tax, ... More >>

Koua Fong Lee sudden acceleration case makes NBC Nightly News

Koua Fong Lee always claimed he tried to brake but couldn't stop the Toyota's sudden accereration.​NBC Nightly News picked up Joe Fryer's story from KARE-11 and broadcast it to a national audience Friday.It's easy to see why: The footage of Koua Fong Lee with his wife, talking about how his childr ... More >>

Toyota Farm to Table Tour

Koua Fong Lee always claimed he tried to brake but couldn't stop the Toyota's sudden accereration.​NBC Nightly News picked up Joe Fryer's story from KARE-11 and broadcast it to a national audience Friday.It's easy to see why: The footage of Koua Fong Lee with his wife, talking about how his childr ... More >>

Toyota! The Runaway Musical Hit!

Koua Fong Lee always claimed he tried to brake but couldn't stop the Toyota's sudden accereration.​NBC Nightly News picked up Joe Fryer's story from KARE-11 and broadcast it to a national audience Friday.It's easy to see why: The footage of Koua Fong Lee with his wife, talking about how his childr ... More >>

Twin Cities theater: weekend rundown June 18-20

Michal DanielPutting our best men on it: Steven Epp and Bradley Greenwald in "Irma Vep"​​ The nirvana of the front-porch/back-deck, cool-drink-in-hand state of mind is certainly exerting its pull right now in these climes. But there's still plenty of time for culture (and you need something to t ... More >>

Theater Spotlight: Toyota!

Michal DanielPutting our best men on it: Steven Epp and Bradley Greenwald in "Irma Vep"​​ The nirvana of the front-porch/back-deck, cool-drink-in-hand state of mind is certainly exerting its pull right now in these climes. But there's still plenty of time for culture (and you need something to t ... More >>

Brave New Workshop's "Toyota!" unsafe at any speed

Comedy shouldn't put on the brakes: The Brave New Workshop​I'm heading over tonight to catch Toyota! The Runaway Musical Hit! at the Brave New Workshop (currently the record-holder for most exclamation points in a local show title). To get in the mood, I rang up the BNW's Katy McEwen and asked her ... More >>

The Crucifixion of Juarez

On the front line of the U.S. war on drugs, a Mexican city bleeds to death

De La Soul, Nike, and corporate everything

My favorite music right now is the new album by De La Soul, Are You In?: Nike Original Run--a new take on rap-rock-techno in 45 bracing minutes, with production by Detroit's Young RJ and Chicago duo Flosstradamus, with the latter mixing the results into one continuous track.This is also De La's fir ... More >>

Readers respond to "Guantánamo's Final Days"

My favorite music right now is the new album by De La Soul, Are You In?: Nike Original Run--a new take on rap-rock-techno in 45 bracing minutes, with production by Detroit's Young RJ and Chicago duo Flosstradamus, with the latter mixing the results into one continuous track.This is also De La's fir ... More >>

British Television Advertising Awards

My favorite music right now is the new album by De La Soul, Are You In?: Nike Original Run--a new take on rap-rock-techno in 45 bracing minutes, with production by Detroit's Young RJ and Chicago duo Flosstradamus, with the latter mixing the results into one continuous track.This is also De La's fir ... More >>

Will the Minn. delegation support the auto bailout?

General Motors, Ford and Chrysler (known as Detroit's Big Three) are begging Congress for a $25 billion government rescue as the auto industry spu ... More >>

Akon: Konvicted Liar

General Motors, Ford and Chrysler (known as Detroit's Big Three) are begging Congress for a $25 billion government rescue as the auto industry spu ... More >>

The Death of Father Kaiser

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

5/16 Morning Communiqué

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

Free Will Astrology

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the Minnesota-reared missionary—or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

Who Needs the Hassle? This Guy.

Al Milgrom celebrated his inaugural film festival by going to jail. It hasn't gotten any easier.

2/8 Morning Communiqué

Al Milgrom celebrated his inaugural film festival by going to jail. It hasn't gotten any easier.

The Straight Dope®

Al Milgrom celebrated his inaugural film festival by going to jail. It hasn't gotten any easier.

King Richard I

A conversation with DJ/Producer Richie Hawtin

Sprawl Of The Wild

Baxterization, beaten paths, and the great riparian land rush of northern Minnesota

Hot Android Action

Turning on to Digitata's blippity ballads

Fisher Hooks

Turning on to Digitata's blippity ballads

A Hummer Changes Everything

Test-driving the SUV for bad people

Into the Maw

Tonight he's gonna party like it's 19-oh-never-mind.

Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun

Audiences chew on a film-fest twofer: Central Standard's indie films and Sound Unseen's musical movies

The Canvasser

Community activist Cy Thao plans to tell the story of the Hmong people in a series of 50 paintings--and may one day speak for them in elected office

Better Days

They went through hell in Mogadishu. But for 17-year-old Mohamed Abdullahi and other Somali immigrants, in Minneapolis it's still an uphill climb.

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The field. The fire. The fight.

A massive police raid, dozens of arrests, and a fleet of bulldozers later, the call to stop Highway 55 turns into the longest-running urban occupation in state history

Life Sentences

Teaching Minnesota's student prisoners reveals the power of the pen

Ground Troops

From its South Minneapolis headquarters, the American Refugee Committee sorts out the logistics of relief

Steal this Ad

The revolution won't be televised--but it will be advertised

Silent Scream

A series of teen rapes shocks local Hmong parents into confronting a new culture: their children.

Hi-Dee-Ho NYC

Miss Richfield 1981 makes her debut in the Big Apple

Window Shopping

Miss Richfield 1981 makes her debut in the Big Apple

Party Poopers

It's Candidates vs. delegates: Who's milking who in the DFL endorsement process?

Officer Down

Typically, prosecutors would be all over a case involving someone suspected of trying to run down a cop

CULTURE TO GO

Typically, prosecutors would be all over a case involving someone suspected of trying to run down a cop