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PHOTO COURTESY MARTIN CROOK

Forecast: many Michaels

by Tony Libera
Published October 7, 2009
Comedians Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black bring their antics to Pantages Theater.
PHOTO COURTESY PRETTY KIDS COLLECTIVE

Local CD round-up: The Idle Hands and Lookbook

by Jay Boller
Published October 7, 2009
New LP's from a group of dandy rockers and a duo of electro-poppers.
Bookworms peruse piles and piles of palatable books!
PHOTO COURTESY RAIN TAXI

“I cannot live without book [festivals]”- Thomas Jefferson

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published October 7, 2009
The Twin Cities Book Festival brings together a community of bookworms

Red Eye Thug Life

by John Sand
Published October 7, 2009
“The Thugs,” an office-set murder mystery, plays off of character stereotypes to cultivate a quick-paced, witty show.
PHOTO COURTESY BRYAN JOHNSON

Interview: Isaac Hanson, of HANSON

by Jay Boller
Published September 30, 2009
The guitarist, father and “MMMBop” scribe chatted with A&E prior to Hanson’s Oct. 3 show at First Ave.
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Interview: Zombie Season

by Mark Brenden
Published September 30, 2009
A&E sat down mano-a-zombie with the band's frontman to discuss music, psychology, journalism and David Bowie.
Spectators inside Haegue Yang’s “Yearning Melancholy Red” immediately become both a critic of the elaborate maze of blinds and a hidden limb of the work.
PHOTO COURTESY WALKER ART CENTER

Haegue Yang is a new kind of insider

by John Sand
Published September 30, 2009
Yang’s installation at the Walker explores the life inside of lifeless objects.
South American Bajofondo streams together funky new age hip-hop with sensuous Spanish rap. PHOTO COURTESY THE CEDAR

Uprooting the Scene

by John Sand
Published September 24, 2009
The Cedar explores the new roots of our increasingly diverse city with an international music fest.
The shading on Tim Sundquist's award winning dead baby tattoo is most intricate. PHOTO BY TOM JOHNSON, DAILY

The freak and chic of tattoo culture

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published September 23, 2009
A&E’s intrepid reporter fields the needles and skulls to check out the Minneapolis Tattoo Arts Convention.
PHOTO COURTESY MONKEYWRENCH

Pearl Jam Do the de-evolution

by Mark Brenden
Published September 20, 2009
The newest release from the last '90s grunge band standing is an "even flow" of jaded punk jams.

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