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1999 Best of Keyword Search:
FROM THE CITY GRITTY
BEST WINNER
The Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa
They were asking for it--Bud Grant, Howard Hanson, and their latest ally, Jesse "My natural heritage is DuPont fishing" Ventura. They were begging to have their faces rubbed in it, to be insulted and humiliated, to get a dose of their own medicine: Lining them up on the Capitol steps would have been nice, and forcing them to take turns reading the Supreme Court decision while Mille Lacs schoolchildren critiqued their pronunciation of "sovereignty." But no. No gloating was heard from the Mille Lacs tribal offices when the Supreme Court ruled for the band in the landmark treaty-rights case March 24; not even the smallest of snickers. Weeks before, tribal chairwoman Marge Anderson wrote a letter to band members: "Do not be boastful," in case of a win, she asked. "Respect the very real anguish that many of our non-Indian neighbors may feel in the event that the Court sides with the Band. Reach out to them in peace and in friendship...." Peace, schmeace. Can you imagine how Jesse, Bud, and Howard would have handled that one?
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Introduction
Hard to believe, but it's been a whole year since we last strapped on our searchlights and scoured the hometown haunts for every local superlative we could find.
And boy, did we find what we were looking for! In this, the biggest issue in City Pages history, you'll find more than 350 of our favorites. There are the usual suspects like Best Hot Dog and Best Politician (or are those one and the same?), along with more obscure treasures like Best Place to See a Strip Show at 9:00 a.m. We've got your Local Boy and Girl Made Good, and we also present for your perusal an entire mini-section of paeans to our newly elected governor--not to mention a dissertation on the Best Golf Course on Which to Have a Dadaesque Experience.
Speaking of Dadaesque experiences, we received nearly a thousand responses to our annual Readers' Poll, wherein you were asked to weigh in with your own choices. Though you opted to honor McDonald's for its French fries (again), our overworked crew of ballot counters was somewhat gratified to see that you used more imagination when it came to the Best Movie Theater category, wherein you swept aside the megamall cineplexes in favor of the Suburban World. (Then you went schizo, picking your very own head of state in the Local Boy Made Good, Politician, and Villain categories. Bully for you!)
Now, without further ado, we give you the 1999 installment of the ongoing battle for Twin Cities supremacy. The winners raise their fists in triumph while the also-rans roll with the punches till next year. As for you, dear rabble-rousing readers, consider this to be one from us, right in the kisser.
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Best Letters to the Editor concerning Best of the Twin Cities 1999
»BEST OF: TOO FAR OUT (Kim Orr, Ramsey)
»BEST OF: THE SEXUAL FAVORS CONSPIRACY (Dave Okar, host, Voices from the Well open mic at Kieran's Irish Pub)
»BEST OF: NICE THOUGHT, BUT A FEW SHEETS SHY OF A PACKAGE (Joni Wheeler, manager, Paper Source)
»BEST TIP OF THE TOQUE (Joni Sivanich, Minneapolis)
»BEST LOVE AFFAIR WITH A BAR (Jason L. Bakke, St. Paul)
»BEST ACCEPTANCE SPEECH WITH A DEFENSIVE SUBTEXT (Joe Dowling, artistic director, Guthrie Theater)
»BEST THANKS FOR THE MAMMARIES (Gary Miernicki, Minneapolis)
»BEST SELF-PROMOTION DISGUISED AS CONGRATULATIONS (Bob Protzman, host, Monday Evening Jazz)
»BEST CRITICISM DISGUISED AS A COMPLIMENT (Itamar Ronen, Minneapolis)
»BEST SINS OF OMISSION (Adrian Peek, Minneapolis)
»ELECTRONICA SEIZES THE MIC... (DJ ESP, Woody McBride, St. Paul)
»SO, LESLIE, YOU'RE SAYING DAVE WAS WRONG ABOUT THE SEXUAL FAVORS? (Leslie Ball, host, Balls)
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