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Target contract janitors go on strike, picket in downtown Minneapolis [PHOTOS]

Yesterday, janitors who clean Target stores announced a two-day strike motivated by what they regard as inadequate pay and benefits, especially in comparison with what janitors who clean Target's corporate headquarters receive.SEE ALSO: Black Friday strike at St. Paul Walmart: "If I lose my job it d ... More >>

In Minnesota, most Missed Connections happen at the grocery store [MAP]

Looking for love? Forget bars, gyms, and coffee shops, and head to... Cub Foods?SEE ALSO: The best Craigslist Missed Connections on election day 2012Dorothy Gambrell of Psychology Today put together a map looking at where the most Craigslist Missed Connections happen in each state, and here in Minne ... More >>

Wisconsin couch humper makes Colbert Report [VIDEO]

Gerald Streator, the Waukesha man who was busted making love to a loveseat last September, was the butt of a few jokes during the January 10 Colbert Report.SEE ALSO:-- Bryan Hathaway, Duluth-area dead deer sexer, allegedly assaults officer at Wal Mart-- Chris Kluwe on The Colbert Report [VIDEO] ... More >>

Promised Land fights fracking

Matt Damon and John Krasinski pit big business against small-town environmentalists in this hard-sell film

The Ten Best Country Albums of 2012

By Alan Scherstuhl This list of the year's best country albums is assembled with two important premises in mind: First: If the people who record and listen to these records consider them country, than they're damn well country. Purists who argue that country should still sound like '68, '76, '84 or ... More >>

Wisconsin man arrested for humping discarded curbside couch

Gerald Streator, 46, is married and lives with his wife. Yet on September 3, he was busted having carnal relations with a discarded curbside couch in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Draw your own conclusions.SEE ALSO:-- Bryan Hathaway, Duluth-area dead deer sexer, allegedly assaults officer at Wal Mart-- Brian ... More >>

Bhi Bhiman / Justin Robinson & the Mary Annettes

Dayton vetoes "smokin' hot" MNGOP-crafted tax cut bill

An exchange on the House floor Tuesday night succinctly captured the difference of opinion between MNGOP and DFL lawmakers about a tax bill vetoed this morning by Gov. Mark Dayton.House Taxes Committee Chairman Greg Davids, R-Preston, described the legislation as a "smokin' hot tax bill." In reply, ... More >>

Best Buy is America's 6th most hated company, says 24/7 Wall St.

Best Buy: More hated than Walmart? 24/7 Wall St. thinks so.​Best Buy has been receiving a lot of negative publicity lately, and that trend continued when 24/7 Wall St. published its list of the 10 most hated companies in America.Using an algorithm including factors like consumer satisfaction, cust ... More >>

Altered Esthetics shows work 'In Process'

​The latest show at Altered Esthetics takes viewers into the mysterious world of an artist's process. The exhibit displays works of all different styles and genres, and helps show how an artist makes decisions, giving an enlightening look at the journey that an individual piece goes through before ... More >>

No one is buying Michele Bachmann's book

Bore of pure fiction.​Michele Bachmann's new book has been on shelves for two weeks now, and that's apparently where it's staying. "Core of Conviction" is a 224-page memoir and political manifesto, filled with half-truths and 109 exclamation points. Bachmann's been on a book tour since its releas ... More >>

Bradlee Dean Interview, Part 2: Taxes, Michele Bachmann, and the Capitol Prayer Debacle

Bradlee Dean on Kurt Zellers: "He's a liar. He straight up lied."​In late May, pastor Bradley Dean Smith, the subject of this week's feature, launched himself into the public eye by delivering a controversial prayer on the floor of the Minnesota Legislature. Smith, better known as Bradlee Dean, ... More >>

Karl Bremer on Bradlee Dean, Michele Bachmann's pastor problem [Interview]

Courtesy Karl Bremer.Bremer has chronicled Bachmann and Dean on his blog, A Ripple In Stillwater.​For more than 10 years, blogger Karl Bremer has been doggedly chronicling the misadventures of Minnesota's craziest politician, Michele Bachmann. Now that Bachmann's presidential candidacy has earned ... More >>

Contest: Create Kemps's next ice cream flavor, get your picture on the carton

Wal-MartSee your face (and your flavor) here.​What do you and Joe Mauer have in common? Well, probably not a whole heck of a lot, but that could all change. The Twins All-Star catcher has flashed his pearly whites in commercials, on billboards, and even on ice cream cartons for local dairy giant K ... More >>

We Are the Willows tour diary, Vol. 9

​Howdy ya'll.  My name is Peter and I play music under the name We Are The Willows. Last fall I was on tour for 10 weeks and kept a diary of my travels on Gimme Noise. It's been about a hair or two over two months since I got home from my last tour and now I'm hittin' the ol' dusty trail agai ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty has the courage to barf in his new memoir

Tim Pawlenty: The Courage To Barf.​We always thought that Tim Pawlenty was a Walmart Republican. Turns out he's really a meat hook conservative unafraid to blow chow when the going gets rough.

Purple Sandpiper and BLVD Kitchen bring culinary ambition to suburbs

Big city not required for big taste

We Are the Willows tour diary, Vol. 5

​Driving into Boston is a real mess.  The streets change names all the time and change directions all the time.  So, just when you think you have it figured out, and you turn off a street to turn around, you end up in a whole other mess.  Luckily my dad Google-mapped the venue and g ... More >>

Teen stole 44 pairs of underwear because she didn't want to wear dirty ones

Photo by PinkMoose​When police asked a 15-year-old girl why she stole 44 pairs of underwear, her answer was pretty straightforward: "Do you expect me to wear dirty underwear?" Of course not. Those darn washing machines are such a pain, aren't they? We never realized undies were meant to be dispo ... More >>

Taylor Swift sells out Xcel

Photo by Steve Cohen​ SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT. I'm worried for li'l Taylor Swift. Her last American tour sold out all across the board. In fact, she sold out Staples Center and Madison Square Garden in less than two minutes. This tour? Also sold out sold out sold out. Appears the next show wit ... More >>

Technologies we should have by now: Where's our flying cars?

If scientists would stop researching obvious stuff like "Why do people like sex so much," we might already have these.

MNDaily reporter spends 19 hours on Metro Transit

It reads like pretty much the most depressing 19 hours of his life.

St. Paul man's horrible hockey hair leads to mulletlikeme.com

Jake Nyberg jumps into social experiment created by his tubular coif

Best Buy finally realizes vinyl is cool again

Apparently Best Buy just realized that people still love vinyl and they are going to try to capitalize on a trend that started long ago.

Prince to release three CDs through Target

A trio of new albums, two of his own and one by protege Bria Valente, will be released March 29.

Cargill holds its tongue

AC/DC

10/9 Morning Must Reads

More "anarchists" busted for RNC disruption plans

Todd Barry

Free Will Astrology

Iraq for Sale

The Farm That Doesn�t Exist

Critics say Target undercuts organic growers by pretending to be one of them

2/5 Morning Communiqué

Where the streets have no record stores

In-Flight Peanuts

Spotted: The human billboard

Drug wars

Free Will Astrology

Targeted for termination

7/27: Morning Communique

Friday morning papers

Forbes's 20 richest in the world

Six Dollars And Eighty Cents An Hour? Yippee.

A new book about working hard and getting nowhere

The New Austerity, Continued

City finance guru Patrick Born on the Minneapolis budget

Grandpa Goes to Grenada

America is no place for the old. Then there's Mexico.

Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike: Looks Like Velvet, Smells Like Pee

Money Where Your Mouth Is

Snug as a Bug in a Rug(rat)

One popular animated TV show is part of the holiday movie stocking stuffers

The Snapshots, the Cops, and the Lawsuit

Two Minneapolis men say a Walgreen photo clerk wrongly fingered them as child pornographers