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University of Minnesota: We're number 68! We're number 68!

U of M: The M stands for "mediocre." ​The University of Minnesota really is one of the best schools in the country... if you get far enough down the list. The U came in No. 68 on the U.S. News and World Report's influential college rankings list, which was released yesterday. Coming in 68th in any ... More >>

NuVal empowers shoppers to choose more nutritious foods

Nu Val helps shoppers trade up to more nutritious choices.​We all know that food marketers like to stretch the truth, so we shouldn't be surprised that a cereal billed as Total nutrition scored only 29 points out of 100 on the new NuVal--nutritional value--system. A Yale doctor, with the hel ... More >>

Defending John Calhoun: Comment Of The Day

Is complaining about Calhoun's support for slavery just political correctness?​Two Athens State University, Ala., professors tell us the proposal to change Lake Calhoun's name -- so that it doesn't honor a man who called slavery "a positive good" -- is nothing but a bunch of politically correc ... More >>

Katherine Kersten's unhealthy fixation on Sasha Grey and Yale Sex Week

This is the face Katherine Kersten makes when she thinks about Sasha Grey having sex.​Subscribers who read the Star Tribune opinion section Sunday might well have wondered if they'd been delivered the Yale Daily News by mistake.In a lengthy, sex-phobic screed, resident Republican schoolmarm Kather ... More >>

Sean Smuda: 100 Creatives

RollerGirls pose with Sean Smuda. Photo by Emma Berg.​No. 99: Sean SmudaCity: POHO(Powderhorn)/Phillips Years spent living in MN: 2.7 x10It's impossible to be active in the Twin Cities arts community and not be aware of Sean Smuda. Over the years he has explored many mediums of expression, from ex ... More >>

Carleton, Macalester rated among nerdiest U.S. campuses

Carleton College, where nerds rule.​Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth eat your hearts out. Some of the biggest college brains in the country, who go to class just for the sheer delight of exercising their cerebral cortex, can be found at Carelton and Macalester colleges. Rating website Unigo arrive ... More >>

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

Carleton College, where nerds rule.​Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth eat your hearts out. Some of the biggest college brains in the country, who go to class just for the sheer delight of exercising their cerebral cortex, can be found at Carelton and Macalester colleges. Rating website Unigo arrive ... More >>

Bristol Palin, James O'Keefe, Jonathan Krohn: Young Republican Stars

The up and coming. The politically braindead. Meet the new Republikids.

Mischke show notes: Oct. 28, 2009

Join the conversation with T.D. Mischke on today's 'In The Stream' live from 2 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.

The Atlantic launches a food blog

The Atlantic now has an online foodie clearinghouse.

President Bush monument erected in Dinkytown front yard

Apparently there's one guy in Minnesota, Broc Blegen, who thought it was appropriate to honor G. Dubbs today and you can still check it out tonight.

Star Tribune's only hope: Endowment?

A smart dude from Yale seems to think so.

Graywolf Press author to read at Obama's Inauguration

Pauline Chen

East Side Story

Pakou Hang looks to unseat 12-year incumbent Dan Bostrom in St. Paul's most intriguing City Council race

Savage Love

Pakou Hang looks to unseat 12-year incumbent Dan Bostrom in St. Paul's most intriguing City Council race

RFK's daughter campaigns for American accountability with Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Pakou Hang looks to unseat 12-year incumbent Dan Bostrom in St. Paul's most intriguing City Council race

Free Will Astrology

Pakou Hang looks to unseat 12-year incumbent Dan Bostrom in St. Paul's most intriguing City Council race

Suck in Your Gut, Lazarus, and Smile for the Camera

Death becomes Angela Strassheim

5/19: Morning Communique

Death becomes Angela Strassheim

America's Next Top Artist: Who will be the next Alec Soth?

Death becomes Angela Strassheim

Of Parrots, Porn, and Death Metal

Multimedia artist Jay Heikes's trip from rocker manqué to the Whitney Biennial

Studying for an Mrs. Degree in 2005

Multimedia artist Jay Heikes's trip from rocker manqué to the Whitney Biennial

Spotlight: His Girl Friday

Headline writer succumbs to "Extra! Extra!" cliché in advertising "Front Page" preview

The Year in Theater

They laughed. They cried. They used the "F" word. They wore funny wigs... and we were there

Local Band Overcomes Gross Name

Bleeding Hickeys and the art of not sucking or biting

Obituaries

Former President George W. Bush Dead at 72

Marry or Burn

The White House's new anti-poverty program: Shotgun weddings

Troma's War

In his 30th year as the cinema's underdog schlockmeister, Lloyd Kaufman continues to do battle with Bush and bullshit

Laugh the Beloved Country

An African comedy of cattle prophecies and cell-phone chieftains

John Berryman Leapt Here

Mapping the literary landmarks of the Twin Cities

Have Score, Will Travel

New-music composer Jeffrey Brooks has paid for his education over a card game, survived for months off stolen tuna, and lived on an Amtrak train. So what's he doing raising two happy kids in a house in south Minneapolis?

A Tale of Two Markets

New-music composer Jeffrey Brooks has paid for his education over a card game, survived for months off stolen tuna, and lived on an Amtrak train. So what's he doing raising two happy kids in a house in south Minneapolis?

Bitter Pills

The AIDS drug Ziagen has brought healthy windfalls to the University of Minnesota and GlaxoSmithKline. But it isn't doing anything at all for the millions who are dying of the disease in Africa.

The North Woods Project

Native Minnesotan filmmaker Katie Koskenmaki turns Vermont into the scary "Minnesota" of "The Windigo"

Eros by Any Other Name

What we talk about when we talk about divorce, and panties, and vaginas

Cinema of Cynicism

In a 29-film series, Oak Street Cinema puts Hollywood's most complicated decade, the Seventies, onscreen

Pulling Strings

An unlikely production company called 3 Legged Race delves into the forsaken realm of puppetry, circus acts, and performance art

Playing Footsie With Paul Anka

An unlikely production company called 3 Legged Race delves into the forsaken realm of puppetry, circus acts, and performance art

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

An unlikely production company called 3 Legged Race delves into the forsaken realm of puppetry, circus acts, and performance art

A Fine Day for Pressing Pulp

Cave Paper rides the renaissance of fine-arts papermaking

Righting the Play

A series of workshops at the Playwrights' Center strips the dramatic process down to author, script, actor, and audience

From Mulder with Love

The X-Files '99: Is the universe out to get us or are we just having trouble getting it on?

SINCLAIR LEWIS

Exile on Main Street

1973 Comics

Exile on Main Street

Screwed, and Depressed About It

If the University of Minnesota is going to treat graduate school as a job, then teaching assistants say they deserve to be treated as well as employees.

Multiplicity

My Name is Joseph Beuys, and I'm an Artist: "3-Tonnen Edition" at the Walker Art Center.

Star Child

My Name is Joseph Beuys, and I'm an Artist: "3-Tonnen Edition" at the Walker Art Center.

Listening For God

Translator Stephen Mitchell on east and west, the psyche, and the divine.

Drug of Choice

Why Washington can't give up the drug war.