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   Balkan Beat Box

   By Rick Mason

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Israeli-born New Yorkers Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat have a lot up their sleeves—and under their hats and in their pockets and stuffed under the sofa. And whatever's down...

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   Zebulon Pike

   By Cecile Cloutier

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Minnesota's favorite self-described "instrumental prog-doom" band issues forth its biennial statement of potent and tectonic heaviness, Intranscience (Unfortunate Music). The...

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   Ghost in the Water

   By Jessica Chapman

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Twee alert: Husband/wife team Ghost in the Water is playing this Friday. Bands composed of couples are always pretty desperately irresistible, and the Minneapolis duo helps...

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   Cut Copy

   By Erin Roof

   Published: September 10, 2008

   If you took jazz dance classes in the early '90s, you will love Cut Copy. Or maybe you're a boy and your mom wouldn't let you take jazz class, but you had a secret crush on...

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   Walter Meego

   By Ray Cummings

   Published: September 10, 2008

   "I know yesterday's gone, and tomorrow, it'll never come" is about as deep and original as Chicago duo Walter Meego allow themselves to get, so it helps that profundity isn't...

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   Does It Offend You, Yeah?

   By Erin Roof

   Published: September 10, 2008

   As a good grammarian, punctuation gets me hot in the pants. I counted—and this band has not one, but two punctuation marks in its name. There's that comma to give you...

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   Ice Cube

   By Jen Paulson

   Published: September 10, 2008

   The first single off Ice Cube's new album Raw Footage, aptly titled "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It," encompasses a certain OG nostalgia and has good ol' O'Shea back with full-force...

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   Junk Bonanza

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: September 10, 2008

   They say that one man's trash is another man's treasure; anyone who has rummaged through the chaos of Ax-Man Surplus Store in St. Paul knows this to be true. This weekend...

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   Taste of Lake Street

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: September 10, 2008

   It's been a tough couple of years for the businesses along Lake Street. Constant construction, in an attempt to create turn lanes and widen that sidewalk about 12 inches, has...

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    Minneatures by PLASTICGOD

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 10, 2008

    The website for Plasticgod proclaims him to be "Your 21st Century Warhol." Whether that assertion is true remains to be seen, but regardless, the man behind Plasticgod does...

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    John Vogt: Paper Tiger

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 10, 2008

    The website for Plasticgod proclaims him to be "Your 21st Century Warhol." Whether that assertion is true remains to be seen, but regardless, the man behind Plasticgod does...

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    Bad Jazz: Tickled Pink

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: September 10, 2008

    When Bad Jazz looks back on its 25-year history, it does so with a sense of style. There's 1985's "Coffeehouse Bad Jazz," 1988's "Scary Bad Jazz," and 2004's "Fool's Paradise"...

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    Garrison Keillor

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 10, 2008

    It takes a natural storyteller to hold a nation's worth of public radio listeners' attention each week for 30-plus years. It takes an exceptionally talented storyteller to hold...

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    Art and Popular Culture

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 10, 2008

    Like a free bag of potato chips, pop culture is consumed by most of us without a second thought. On a daily basis, commercials, billboards, cartoons, and sitcoms flash before...

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    The Hidden World of Bears: Photography by Lynn Rogers

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 10, 2008

    Grizzly Adams has nothing on biologist Lynn Rogers. Rogers has been studying bears for 40 years, getting close to them, and apparently earning the animals' trust. At the...

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    Garrison Keillor

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 10, 2008

    It takes a natural storyteller to hold a nation's worth of public radio listeners' attention each week for 30-plus years. It takes an exceptionally talented storyteller to hold...

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    Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 10, 2008

    It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum,...

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    Mill City Museum's 5th Anniversary

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 10, 2008

    Long before the Mill City Museum began claiming to the world that it was the "best smelling museum ever created," the space it occupies was a mill rather than an homage to one....

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    Art Here: Get Out the Vote

    By Jackie Varriano

    Published: September 10, 2008

    Elephants and donkeys and Ron Paul, oh my! It's time to add another event to your election-year to-do list as the Minnesota Museum of American Art proudly presents "Get Out the...

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    Mike Birbiglia

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: September 10, 2008

    Mike Birbiglia is embarrassed to tell people that he has a blog. "People blog about anything, like, 'Today I went to JCPenny.' 'I'm like JCPenny, eh?' That's not a blog, that's...