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Earl Root memorial show and auction this Saturday

Photos courtesy of Nancy Root​With Northeast's Art-A-Whirl and the resurrection of the Lyn-Lake Street Festival in Minneapolis winding down Sunday night, the band Chooglin' took the stage at Sauce Soundbar to cap off what many considered the 'first weekend of summer' in the Twin Cities.Before a pa ... More >>

The Wet Spot: Sexy holiday shopping at The Cockpit Project

The holidays are here. Bring on the leather.

Junk Bonanza

Monday morning obsessions

Your Permanent Record

The Dead and The Wounded

Last spring three soldiers from northern Minnesota's Carlton County died in Iraq in one month's time

Bless The Beasts And The Road Kill

The Minnesota association of rogue taxidermists unearths an exquisite corpse

The Abominable SnowMN

Suck on this, Snoopy: A fiberglass Frosty threatens to storm our city streets

Mr. Shoah

David Cross and Bob Odenkirk perpetrate a comic genocide on good taste

The Names

In the author-signed-book trade, literature meets the ledger

Minnesota's Most Wanted

Off Beat

Screening New Heights

The ambitious Heights Theatre stretches to bring upscale cinema to an audience outside of Uptown

In a Heartbeat

How quickly life changed when our daughter's heart murmur wasn't innocent at all

The Secret Life of Beanies

Of tie-dyed bats, rabbi bears, and the elusive "7th generation" tag

Diamonds to Dust

Baseball owners are trading away the game's storied traditions for boxes of Beanie Babies

Hard Labor

Ex-cons and ex-housewives. The highly trained and the unskilled. The nice, the nasty, and the downright crazy. All kinds of people come to the day-labor hiring hall, but they all come for the same thing.