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   Joan Griffith & Laura Caviani

   By Rick Mason

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Although cool autumn breezes may already be about on this last day of summer, Minnesota jazz musicians and educators Joan Griffith and Laura Caviani will keep things tropical...

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   Impaler's 25-Year Anniversary Show

   By Peter S. Scholtes

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Hard to imagine now, but when fake-blood-spurting Impaler debuted in full makeup at Goofy's Upper Deck in 1983, punk-metal crossover was still novel and controversial: Slayer...

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   Cataldo

   By Jen Paulson

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Cataldo frontman Eric Anderson is a Pacific Northwest native who recently graduated from Macalester and has already left us for Seattle. However, touring Signal Fire through...

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   Sian Alice Group

   By Ray Cummings

   Published: September 17, 2008

   59.59, the debut from England's Sian Alice Group, is a bit of a trap. When frontwoman Sian Ahern's lilting, beguiling voice is paired with the band's orchestrally captivating...

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   Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip

   By Erin Roof

   Published: September 17, 2008

   You should not like Scroobius Pip. In his video for "Thou Shalt Always Kill," he clasps close to his heart a vinyl edition of London Calling by the Clash and declares, "The...

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   McNally Smith River Rocks Music Festival: Ozomatli

   By Jessica Chapman

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Ozomatli is one of those bands you just have to see live. If you haven't seen them before, do not miss them this time around, especially because they've reunited—at least...

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   Neko Case

   By Jessica Chapman

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Neko Case's voice hits you like a strong river—cool, cleansing, and fresh. It courses right through you, buoys you, and after having its way with you, leaves you...

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   Lagwagon

   By Ray Cummings

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Hard to believe that Lagwagon's California brand of cookie-cutter skate-punk turns 18 this year, huh? Frontguy Joey Cape—he of the over-exaggerated enunciation and lame-o...

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   Barhopping: Tum Rup Thai

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Sometimes restaurants located just east of Hennepin Avenue get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. Non-Uptowners flock to Calhoun Square or the handful of other restaurants around...

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    MN Fall Fashion Week

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 17, 2008

    It's true that the Midwest isn't known as a bastion for cutting-edge fashion. Sure, most suburbs contain at least one strip mall featuring a clothing store owned by GAP. And...

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    Tenebrism

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Last fall, Jeremy Catterton from indie theater experimentalists Lamb Lays with Lion directed a stellar run of Fort Wilson Riot's rock opera Idigaragua. Now Catterton...

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    MN Fall Fashion Week: Thunderball

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Various Twin Cities locations, Wednesday through Sunday It's true that the Midwest isn't known as a bastion for cutting-edge fashion. Sure, most suburbs contain at least one...

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    MN Fall Fashion Week: Envision

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 17, 2008

    It's true that the Midwest isn't known as a bastion for cutting-edge fashion. Sure, most suburbs contain at least one strip mall featuring a clothing store owned by GAP. And...

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    MN Fall Fashion Week Cocktail Party

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Various Twin Cities locations, Wednesday through Sunday It's true that the Midwest isn't known as a bastion for cutting-edge fashion. Sure, most suburbs contain at least one...

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    She Rock Festival 2008

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 17, 2008

    She Rock Festival founder Debra G. admits that her motivations for establishing this two-day music fest were selfish. Unfamiliar with so many female performers in the Twin...

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    The 48th Street Slam

    By Ward Rubrecht

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Slam poetry is growing in the Twin Cities, as the poets' ranks swell with newcomers eager to learn the ropes and strut their own stuff. The local scene already has two...

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    Cokie Roberts

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Whether you love her moose-hunting, hockey-mom appeal, or hate her far-right, "don't you dare teach my children about birth control" politics, Sarah Palin is the fruit of the...

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    D.C.A. Hillman

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 17, 2008

    It is not uncommon to think of ancient Greco-Roman society as a precursor to modern Western civilization. Hailed as the cradle of democracy, ancient Greece and Rome are often...

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    Maria Muldaur

    By Rick Mason

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Since charming her way onto the charts with sly interpretations of nuggets like "Midnight at the Oasis" and Danny and Blue Lu Barker's lascivious "Don't You Feel My Leg," Maria...

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    $99 Art Sale

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 17, 2008

    All art, obviously, is entirely subjective, and the price for that art is similarly so. What exactly makes Woman III, an oil on canvas painting by abstract expressionist Willem...