We don’t need skates!
It was bound to happen eventually, though delaying the arrival of snow a little longer would have been preferred. Yes, sometimes you want it to dump on you quickly so [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in Locker Room
Posted November 19, 2014in Food Dude
November — the best month for dining out
In the local food scene, November anticipates the holiday season with a bevy of special events. Nonprofits try to squeeze fundraisers in before people’s discretionary income is distracted by Christmas [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind Death Row Records founder Suge Knight, 49, was charged with robbery for stealing a celebrity photographer’s camera. He and his accomplice, Katt Williams, were accused of [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in The Sound
Being a woman
Any musician worth his or her salt — and several of them who aren’t — will say that the biggest thing an artist needs is continual growth. Minneapolis-based Caroline Smith, [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in Cover Story
Doing time in Des Moines
Editor’s note: The following includes excerpts from the diary of Steve Clemens, a self-described peace and justice activist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who was arrested for criminal trespass while condemning the [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in Sound Notes
Winter is indeed a season of change. Last month, JC Wilson announced that House of Bricks would book its last heavy metal show this November before undergoing a remodel, rebrand [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in News of the Weird
The other World Series In October, another premier world sports event reached its climax, with one team left standing, rewarded for months of grueling practices, to the cheers of adoring, [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in Duffy
Posted November 19, 2014in Sound Circuit
Going thermal
If you have been to a local music venue with any kind of regularity in the past couple years, or if you’ve made your way to the 80/35 festival in [...]
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Tales of two atrocities: political ads and language
Tale I: Next to the biblical “In the beginning…,” the best-recalled opening line in literature likely is, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” from [...]
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