June 2003 Issue

FEATURES

Little Strip Club on the Prairie

Dirty dancing in rural Minnesota. It's more popular and controversial than ever.

by Sarah Luck Pearson

Too quick on the draw

While the DFL fires blanks, did the GOP finally shoot themselves with the gun bill?

by Tom Bartel

Demolishing Modernism

An architectural murder mystery.

by Adam Minter

LETTERS & RED HANDED

Cadillac in the Sky

Toying with Iraq

Confidential to China: Spittoons!

from the Economy Class: Masked & Innocuous

Flying from Minneapolis to Shanghai: Yeah, probably the wrong direction.

by Adam Minter

Droves of Dennis Disciples

Minnesota in the Tank

Denning Is Dandy, but Manuel Is a Mensch

Giant Among Men

THE RAKISH ANGLE

Wild Kingdom

“A Small Half-Domesticated Polecat”

That’s the official definition of the ferret, and that’s just about right.

by Andy Steiner

Bullet Points

Everything you need to know about your new place on the food chain.

by Oliver Tuanis

Gastronomer

Eat Your Ouija

Psychic Ruth looks into The Rake’s immediate culinary future and orders—eggplant. Ish.

by Joe Pastoor

Casting Call

College Girls Gone Mild!

Would Minnesota’s beauties take it off for Hef? Uh…maybe.

by Emily Ayshford

Kids These Days

Speedy Recovery

You see a big-box concept store in bankruptcy. We see… indoor go-karts!

by John Tribbett

After a Fashion

“It’s A Wild!”

Minnesota’s amazing hockey team. We’re so proud of it! (Them?)

by Patrick Donnelly

Good Intentions

Guns ’n’ Alkyhol

Praise God and pass the ammo. And one more for the road!

by Hans Eisenbeis

SO LITTLE TIME...

Readings

Erica Jong

Ruminator Books, June 4

Theater

Triple Espresso

Music Box Theater, ongoing

CDs

Annie Lennox, Bare

Available June 10

Movies

Tokyo Underground: Takashi Miike’s Mad Bad World

Walker Art Center, June 4-6

Books

Larry McMurtry, The Wandering Hill

Available now

Art

Make It Real

Soap Factory, through June 21

DVDs