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   Set the Smith

   By Peter S. Scholtes

   Published: October 15, 2008

   Set the Smith's voice is all relaxed, resonant edge, which made him a credible old-schooler on 2004's The Example Part One (Chill Records) despite his evident youth on the...

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   Mason Jennings

   By Andrea Swensson

   Published: October 15, 2008

   Mason Jennings, where hath thou gone? Things seemed so promising a couple of years ago when, after years of refusing major-label offers, Jennings finally caved in and signed to...

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   Crooked Fingers

   By Ted Longmore

   Published: October 15, 2008

   A decade into Crooked Fingers, frontman Eric Bachmann has gone from an angsty youth to a crooning adult. The band's new album, Forfeit/Fortune, is the latest in an...

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   TV on the Radio

   By Pat O'Brien

   Published: October 15, 2008

   Making post-punk infused ambient, moody noise sound sleek, not to mention listenable and, most importantly, vital, seems almost like a punch line to a bad joke. TV on the Radio...

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   Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

   By Pat O'Brien

   Published: October 15, 2008

   He kicked around in different D.C. hardcore (or harDCore, if that's how you want it) bands for years before striking out on his own—and what a solo career it has been....

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   Yonder Mountain String Band

   By Rick Mason

   Published: October 15, 2008

   Like many bands on the progressive wing of bluegrass, the Yonder Mountaineers like to push things at the same time as adhering to traditions. For the YMSB the latter includes...

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   Wire

   By Jonathan Garrett

   Published: October 15, 2008

   In the wake of the lackluster Manscape and The First Letter in the early '90s, many had no doubt already prepared a mental epitaph for Wire. But that was before the explosive...

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   Happy Hour at Jasmine 26

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: October 15, 2008

   The Eat Street region of Nicollet Avenue is not for those with short attention spans. Stroll up the street on any given night in search of a bar or restaurant and you will find...

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   City Pages' Iron Fork

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: October 15, 2008

   Thanks to shows like Iron Chef, with its color commentary approaching NFL-levels of gusto, or Hell's Kitchen, where Gordon Ramsey yells insults at cooks as if he were a high...

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    Zombie Pub Crawl IV

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: October 15, 2008

    We all want brains. However, if the word "brains" makes you hungry rather than prompting intellectual discourse, chances are you are a zombie. This Saturday, zombies will be...

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    Raise Your Glass, Heal the World

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 15, 2008

    If John McCain and Barack Obama can agree that torture is pretty much the worst thing ever, we all can agree on it. The Twin Cities-based Center for Victims of Torture aims to...

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    Brian Mark

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 15, 2008

    You know how some people say they see Jesus in dental X-rays, plaster, toast, and, well, pretty much any other surface? Brian Mark's art is kind of like that. Mark makes...

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    Amazons and Their Men

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: October 15, 2008

    The hall of mirrors is always firmly in place whenever an artist strives to create when her or his nation is at war. What hasn't been sorted out here in the homeland are the...

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    Sarah Vowell

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 15, 2008

    With her latest book, The Wordy Shipmates, author, NPR mainstay, and history buff Sarah Vowell attempts to make 17th-century Puritans amusing. And she succeeds. Vowell analyzes...

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    Making Music: Brother Ali

    By Nate Patrin

    Published: October 15, 2008

    Listening to Brother Ali's records, you'd be forgiven for automatically assuming that his lyrics were not so much written as they were ripped, barehanded, from the boiling...

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    CSI: The Experience

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 15, 2008

    Is getting up-close and personal with a dead body and finding how it got that way your kink? You're in luck. The traveling exhibit, "CSI: The Experience," opens today at the...

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    Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 15, 2008

    Late Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo is sort of like the pinball-ish game pachinko: While hugely popular in Japan and select other places on the map, he just never took off in...

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    Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: October 15, 2008

    Flamenco, the product of several cultural sources, from the Gypsies of Spain's Andalusia region to the Arab world, relies on a rich history, but it also continually evolves,...

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    So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2008

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: October 15, 2008

    Three cheers and then some to the So You Think You Can Dance creative team; their behind-the-scenes machinations made for a wrenching, involving 2008 season for contestants and...

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    Jackson Browne

    By Rick Mason

    Published: October 15, 2008

    A week after his 60th birthday, Jackson Browne arrives in town with a new album prominently displaying his gray-streaked goatee on the cover and a great title track...