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Michele Bachmann falls from grace

From top GOP contender to bottom of the barrel

Spotlight on Milkweed Editions: An Evening of Travel, Politics, and Prose

From top GOP contender to bottom of the barrel

University of Minnesota students not as good at sex as they used to be

Maybe you shouldn't have sex in this place, and with these people.​The University of Minnesota has taken a dramatic drop in sex practices from last year, according to a national study on student sexual health. All of those people who graduated last spring may take a moment to pat themselves on the ... More >>

Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 1

Photos by Mark Mallman​The demo recording of "Let it Be" starts with Paul McCartney talking to the sound engineer. He says "This is going to knock you out, boy," and then proceeds to perform one of rock's greatest ballads. Those few snide words before he starts always reminds me of what the roa ... More >>

U of Iowa apologizes for tweet calling Michele Bachmann a cougar

Michele Bachmann might be a cougar, but you didn't hear it from Iowa.​Michele Bachmann is finally involved in a gaffe that isn't her fault.Earlier today, a University of Iowa staffer made a sly allusion to how foxy the future president is, in a rather regrettable reference to a cougar that had rec ... More >>

Scott DeMuth, animal rights activist, sentenced to prison

Scott DeMuth is going to prison.​Scott DeMuth set the ferrets free. Now he's going to prison. An Iowa judge has sentenced the 23-year-old University of Minnesota graduate student to six months behind bars for busting into a Howard Lake ferret breeding business in 2006 and setting 200 of the c ... More >>

Scott DeMuth pleads guilty to setting free the ferrets

Image from WikimediaFerrets: some people go to jail for them​Scott DeMuth, the Minneapolis man accused of breaking into a ferret farm in Howard Lake, Minnesota, in 2006 and setting the little weasel-like animals free, pleaded guilty late yesterday. In return, the 23-year-old DeMuth, a member of t ... More >>

Carrie Feldman, animal rights activist, released from Iowa prison

The Minneapolis native was jailed in November because she wouldn't testify about a break-in at an animal lab at the University of Iowa. Now she's out.

Biber's teen sex charge leaves colleagues "confused and disturbed"

Minneapolis business attorney Aaron Biber is due to be arraigned in Hennepin County court today on charges that he had sex with a 14-year-old boy.

Iowa's legalization of gay marriage: awesome, but not surprising

Gay rights proponents across the country are thrilled--and more than a little surprised--that a state epitomizing "fly-over country" would uphold gay marriage. Here's why the astonishment is unwarranted...

What's wrong with Iowa?

Always bet on black: Oddsmakers pick Obama 3 to 1

Breakfast of Champions: 11/9

War Torn

As a young radical, Norm Coleman protested the Vietnam War. Now his support for the Iraq quagmire may swallow his political career.

Season of the Witch

Put on the robe, light up the firepit. We're having a pagan ritual tonight.

Savage Love

Put on the robe, light up the firepit. We're having a pagan ritual tonight.

Lights Out 2005

MC Sims faces another year of Doomtree fanatics, political unrest, and construction work

Home Improvements

A few years ago, Ann Bauer was living with her parents, too broke to copy her manuscript. Now, the single mother of three is poised for literary success.

Leaves of Ass

Why won't anyone finish publishing Walt Whitman's letters?

Why Is Sloth a Mortal Sin?

Was Charles Macomb Flandrau the father of modern Minnesota letters--or just a literary layabout?

Asia Rising

Minnesota Dance looks east--and not to New York

Techies

Voyaging Into the Secret Universe of Enterprising Backstage Artists

A Narrow Escape

Voyaging Into the Secret Universe of Enterprising Backstage Artists

Title Fight

University of Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson's to-do list this season: win big ten championship. Win national title. Put stranglehold on the growth of women's athletics.

Cyanide Pact

The Minneapolis river terminal agrees to clean up its poison salt piles

The Middle Of Somewhere

With American Movie, director Chris Smith finds the heart of cinema in the unlikely environs of Milwaukee

A Fine Day for Pressing Pulp

Cave Paper rides the renaissance of fine-arts papermaking

Is He Nuts?

Turncoat. Chickenshit. Radical. Minnesota's senior senator has been called a lot of things. But president?

Late Bloomer

Writer Cherry Muhanji joins Vulva Riot to celebrate their fifth anniversary

Fly Away Home

Having survived Cambodia's killing fields, poet U Sam Oeur writes as a witness to the "Kingdom of Hell"

Out With Clout

In corporations and churches, in classrooms and capital corridors, these 100 Queers have contributed to the "Good Life" in Minnesota.

Catherine Webster, editor: Over This Soil: An Anthology of World Farm Poems

In corporations and churches, in classrooms and capital corridors, these 100 Queers have contributed to the "Good Life" in Minnesota.

Back To Me

In corporations and churches, in classrooms and capital corridors, these 100 Queers have contributed to the "Good Life" in Minnesota.

Let Them Eat Shit

Minnesota beef producers can begin using radiation to kill bacteria and extend the shelf life of everything from hamburger to filet mignon. But a number of scientists, scrappy idealists, and small farmers still say it's not a good idea.

Norm's Conquest

Some people compare Norm Coleman to Ronald Reagan. They have a point.

Love! Valour! Courage?

Park Square players: Executive director Stephen Lockwood and artistic director Richard Cook.

UFF DUH! Minnesota is as Minnesota Does

The 1997 Tongue-on-the-Flagpole Awards