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Lifestyles of the Broke and Inebriatednew
After 7,000 gigs and 7,002 sacks of weed, Todd Snider finally arrives.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Dylan Hicks |
02-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Todd Snider
Mommy Fetish, Line Onenew
Do you want to know what I'm wearing? The hot pink bathrobe that was on sale at Target. Purple flannel pajama pants. Shearling slippers on my toasty toes. And a phone receiver in my hand, poised for dirty talk.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Suzy Olson (not her real name) |
02-09-2005 |
Sex
New Kid On The Blocnew
Martin Cruz Smith, to his credit, has taken note of the competition, and Wolves Eat Dogs is a lesson in persistence; its steeped cynicism conveys the quality of feeling of a veteran Sovietologist, older and deeper than the disillusion of idealistic young'uns who put in a vodka-drenched post-collegiate year.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jesse Berrett |
01-26-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Martin Cruz Smith, Wolves Eat Dogs
Everything You Know About Taxes is Wrongnew
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston, author of Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else, discusses the damage our reverse Robin Hood tax scheme is doing to 99 percent of Americans, and about the perils posed to democracy by the growing inequalities of the system.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
01-26-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Christmas of the Pod Peoplenew
The "record player" is now the size of an Altoids box, and what that means is that come Saturday, four million free spirits who very likely don't own a turntable will ignore the puritans who would dismiss the iPod as trendy or tinny.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jim Walsh |
12-23-2004 |
Science
Looking Back on Blue Christmasesnew
A new stepbrother expecting the hamster-massacreist, a brother transformed by Thorazine, an old girlfriend resurfacing as a roommate's date: City Pages writers remember some of their most miserable holidays.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Staff Writers |
12-23-2004 |
Recreation
Tags: schizophrenia, Christmas 2004
Put On That Sweater or Die!new
People afflicted with the rare allergy, cold urticaria, can break out in hives when subjected to cold air or even a scoop of ice cream. Several minutes of exposure to the cold could cause the victim's throat to swell shut.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Lindsey Thomas |
12-09-2004 |
Science
George W. Bush in His Own Wordsnew
The interesting thing about being president, Bush has said, is that he doesn't need to explain why he says things. Many of his inexplicable quotations are compiled here.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Corey Anderson |
11-01-2004 |
Politics
Readers Respond to Suspension of Daily Reporters Who Attended Concertnew
Newspaper management suspended two St. Paul Pioneer Press reporters who attended a Vote for Change concert, saying they violated newsroom policies on political activities. City Pages runs 12 letters to the editors on the action that the daily paper never published.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jim Walsh |
10-29-2004 |
Media
Special Agent Jane Turner vs. the FBInew
Before Coleen Rowley, there was another whistleblower who rose from the ranks of the Minneapolis FBI division. Retired agent Jane Turner describes the Bureau's good old boy management culture -- and how it goes about silencing its internal critics.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
10-07-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation, COINTELPRO, amber alert, fitness of duty, intimidation, Louis Freeh, of J. Edgar Hoover, of surveillance, Patty Wetterling, post-traumatic stress, Robert Mueller, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Tiffany crystal globe, World Trade Center artifacts, crime & justice
The Ghost of Bob Hope: Doing the Baghdad Boogienew
Rockabilly musician Rick Hollister never had to go to Vietnam, so he decided to give back a little by performing for troops in Iraq. He's seen more blood in Iowa, he says.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Paul Demko |
10-01-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Former Beach Boy Journeys to a Darker State of Mindnew
In his last major work, Brian Wilson invents the drama of escaping his dad and then even more melodramatically rehearses the helpless return to the dad; or a recapture by him.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Matthew Wilder |
10-01-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bush Brigade Prepares to Take Manhattannew
It's the terrorists the Republicans fear, of course. And, more pressingly, the people.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
08-27-2004 |
Commentary
Eighteen Thoughts Concerning the Hivesnew
Though the Hives open themselves up to style-over-substance gripes, there is real feeling amidst their artifice and formalism.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Dylan Hicks |
08-27-2004 |
Music
Small-Town Residents Come to Embrace Reporter's Troubling Insightsnew
After four teens were arrested for the bludgeoning death of a blind albino man in Cass Lake, Minn., Star Tribune reporter Larry Oakes returned to the town where he grew up to examine the youth crisis at the Leech Lake Reservation.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Mike Mosedale |
08-07-2004 |
Media
Tags: addiction, violence, journalism, media, Drugs, poverty, alcohol, Ojibwe, single-parent families, tribal leaders
