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   Jamie Kaler

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: October 1, 2008

   New Hampshire native Jamie Kaler isn't sure how he became a standup comic. He had a happy childhood, loving parents, and only the occasional run-in with a school bully. Of his...

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   archy and mehitabel, life in lower case

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: October 1, 2008

   Open Eye Figure Theatre took home an entirely well-deserved Ivey Award last week for its A Prelude to Faust, the sort of obsessively smart and bawdy work long associated with...

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   Sacbe

   By Andrea Swensson

   Published: October 1, 2008

   The brainchild of three brothers from Mexico City, Sacbé is an ever-evolving trio whose sound is as varied as the life experiences of each of its members. Pianist...

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   Weezer

   By Ray Cummings

   Published: October 1, 2008

   Weezer's like a rock cockroach; since the foursome's early-'90s inception, countless cultural nuclear holocausts have devastated the cultural landscape, yet the Rivers...

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   Jazz is NOW! NOWnet

   By Rick Mason

   Published: October 1, 2008

   Conceived as a forward-looking ensemble concentrating on the original compositions of its illustrious members, the NOWnet is a flexible group featuring some of the finest and...

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   Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78

   By Matthew Smith

   Published: October 1, 2008

   Forty or 50 years on, it's hard to imagine now the manic energy of the art world in the 1960s, or the way that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, in particular, blew the...

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   Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby

   By Jen Paulson

   Published: October 1, 2008

   Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby have released a new, self-titled album, featuring a cute little single called "Here Comes My Ship." In this already packed-to-the-gills night of...

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   Karen Sherman: Copperhead

   By Linda Shapiro

   Published: October 1, 2008

   Karen Sherman is an artist with both grit and guts, a shaker-upper of our sometimes complacent local dance scene. Traumatized women and the forces that mold them simmer at the...

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   Liz Phair

   By Pat O'Brien

   Published: October 1, 2008

   In 1993, she exploded onto the still-burgeoning alternative scene with Exile in Guyville, an album full of songs about sex, a woman's right to be a sexual object, and the...

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    Justin Nozuka; the Gabe Dixon Band

    By Rick Mason

    Published: October 1, 2008

    This bill pairs a couple of impressive newcomers to the pop mainstream. Nozuka, a 19-year-old guitarist/singer based in Toronto, has already established a presence on MTV and...

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    Ani DiFranco

    By Andrea Swensson

    Published: October 1, 2008

    More a movement than an actual person, Ani DiFranco is many things to many people: a spearhead of the modern feminist revolution, an unassuming cultural icon, an unwavering and...

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    Kathy Griffin

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: October 1, 2008

    Kathy Griffin is not afraid to burn bridges. She's smack-talked everyone from Tom Cruise and Scientology (was he crazy before or after his conversion?) to Madonna (her adopted...

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    Citizen Cope

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: October 1, 2008

    You might recognize Citizen Cope's tunes from a recent Pontiac commercial ("Son's Gonna Rise"), you might have heard him play between angsty teenage stares on a few CW shows...

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    Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships

    By Pat O'Brien

    Published: October 1, 2008

    If you expected Robert Pollard to ride quietly into the sunset after the dissolution of Guided By Voices in 2004, you were sorely mistaken. After more than two decades, one of...

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    A Prairie Home Companion Opener and Street Dance

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 1, 2008

    Like college football and raking leaves, A Prairie Home Companion, the ubiquitous radio variety show heard by millions of listeners each year, is a fall Saturday-afternoon...

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    Gophers vs. Indiana

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 1, 2008

    There are a lot of words one could use when describing the Gophers' 2007 football season: Horrible. Dismal. Pathetic. Nauseating. Bewildering. Shameful. Any word that conveys a...

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    MCBA FallCon Comic Book Celebration

    By Ward Rubrecht

    Published: October 1, 2008

    If you need any reassurance that comic books are bigger now than they've ever been, look no further than University of Minnesota professor Jim Kakalios's seminar class on the...

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    Groundbreaking Battle 2008

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: October 1, 2008

    The Minnesota Shubert Theater is still in extended rehab, but "innovate while you renovate" is executive director Kim Motes's mantra. So "Hip-Hop Dance: From the Streets to the...

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    Siobhain Butterworth

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 1, 2008

    Siobhain Butterworth, like all newspaper ombudsmen, has the pretty sweet job of telling everybody when her employer messes up. As the readers' editor at London's The Guardian,...

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    Compañia Flamenco José Porcel

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: October 1, 2008

    Seville is one of Spain's most important flamenco centers. Walk down its narrow, winding streets and you're liable to run into a flamenco specialty store filled with bright,...