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April 2007 Issue

FEATURES

Marathon Man

Marathon Man

The ascension of a front office force
by Brad Zellar
Country Girl

Country Girl

A Somali woman’s odyssey
by Fozia Mussa and Jon Lurie, photograph by Dawn Villella

FICTION

The Debt

The Debt

by Dan May, Painting by J. M. Culver, Visceral Landscape #7, 2005

LETTERS & RED HANDED

Dynasty of Delinquents?

by Barb Brennan, Bloomington
Pig’s Eye Moves Downtown

Pig’s Eye Moves Downtown

Kieran's Letter of the Month
by Patrick Hill, St. Paul
China

China

This month's featured Red Handed Photo
by Brendan Flaherty and Sandra Yue

Notes and Corrections

More Questions for Kersten

by Dan Gausman, St. Paul

Boys Night

by Brian Turner, Sean Bernard and John Cosgrove

Still Counting …

by Ms. Wiley, Minneapolis

India

by Celeste Grant and Debra Heisick

THE RAKISH ANGLE

Cuddly Kierkegaardians

These Lawless Times

Cuddly Kierkegaardians

Sweet Søren’s homies throw down on the prairie.
by Dan Sinykin, illustration by mike carina / carinacreative.com
A Bedtime Preyer

Hidden Treasures

A Bedtime Preyer

“Bed Bugs and the Hospitality Industry Today”
by Brad Zellar, illustration by jesse yungner / childrens-illustrators.com/yungner

Investigations

Visiting Hours

Twenty Minutes of Cold Screen Time
by Laura Flynn
Revolutionary Dining

Mixing and Mingling

Revolutionary Dining

Changing the World One Course at a Time
by Laura Puckett, illustration by Charles Spitzack
Sex and Superheroes

Good Intentions

Sex and Superheroes

An Invincible Cure for the Winter Blues
by Tom Bartel
Little Town on the Corner

Local Hero

Little Town on the Corner

Welcome to Minnesota’s smallest city.
by Peter Schilling, illustration by Andrew Shannon

Postcard from New York

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Tom Bartel

STRAIGHT TALK

The Doctor is In

The Doctor is In

Sex, depression, and why we’re not very different from chimpanzees
by Jennifer Vogel, photo illustration by Lucas Saugen

HEAVY ROTATION

Jay Farrar’s Playlist

Jay Farrar’s Playlist

SO LITTLE TIME...

Jim Denomie & Andrea Carlson

Art

Jim Denomie & Andrea Carlson

Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, April 6–May 27
Grindhouse

Film

Grindhouse

Area Theaters, April 6
Illuminating Bolcom: William Bolcom Festival

Music

Illuminating Bolcom: William Bolcom Festival

Various venues, April 12–May 5
photo by Katryn Conlin for Vocal Essence

Theater

Blood Wedding

Ten Thousand Things at Minnesota Opera Center and Open Book, April 5–15
Or the White Whale

Theater

Or the White Whale

Southern Theater, April 12–22
photo by Eric Melzer
Carey Young & Lene Berg

Art

Carey Young & Lene Berg

Midway Contemporary Art, through May 5
E.L. Doctorow

Books

E.L. Doctorow

Ted Mann Concert Hall, April 11
Dérive

Theater

Dérive

Flaneur Productions at the Northwestern Casket Company building, April 5–14
Antibalas

Music

Antibalas

First Avenue, April 24

Film

The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival

Oak Street Cinema and Bell Auditorium, April 19–29
ANIMO: UK/Minneapolis

Theater

ANIMO: UK/Minneapolis

Improbable Theatre at Walker Art Center, April 19–21
photo by Keith Pattison, 2004
Art Reincarnated

Art

Art Reincarnated

Altered Esthetics, April 5–April 26
Galway Kinnell and Josephine Dickinson

Books

Galway Kinnell and Josephine Dickinson

Talking Volumes series, Fitzgerald Theater, April 12
Stella Ebner & Larry Hofmann

Art

Stella Ebner & Larry Hofmann

Groveland Gallery, through April 14
Dance Competition

Dance

Dance Competition

Inside the antic eclecticism of suburban studio culture
by Linda Shapiro, Photo by Frank Rowe / ffrowe@mail.com

Film

Bonkers

Childish Film Fest at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, Oak Street Cinema, April 22
The Hoax

Film

The Hoax

Area Theaters, April 6
David Lefkowitz: Tangle

Art

David Lefkowitz: Tangle

Thomas Barry Fine Arts, through April 14

Music

The Books

Walker Art Center, April 27
Laura Restrepo

Books

Laura Restrepo

Delirium; Available April 3
Christopher Buckley

Books

Christopher Buckley

MPR’s American Humorist Series, Fitzgerald Theater, April 18

RAKE APPEAL

Messing About in Boats

Object Lust

Messing About in Boats

Paddling through skim ice in my Perception Swifty
by Ann Klefstad, Photo courtesy Ann Klefstad
The Way We Wore

Fashion

The Way We Wore

What treasure hangs in the History Center’s giant closet?
photo by Sean Smuda / seansmuda.com
The Drawing and Withdrawing Room

Show & Tell

The Drawing and Withdrawing Room

Examining the contents of a couturiere’s sanctum
by Christy DeSmith, illustration by Hugh Bennewitz / hughbennewitz.com

GRAY MATTERS

The Sex Lives of Your Neighbors

The Sex Lives of Your Neighbors

Citizen journalists provide news you can use.
by Greg Beato
A Room of His Own

A Room of His Own

Men stake their claim on domestic space
by Jon Lurie

DOWN THE HATCH

Pleasure Sap

Food

Pleasure Sap

The gooey goodness of pure maple syrup
by Stephanie March
Flowers by Contrecoup

Wine

Flowers by Contrecoup

Fresh Sancerre from the Loire
by Oliver Nicholson

MOTLEY KRüSE

Putting My Ethics on Hold

Putting My Ethics on Hold

My Life as a Hustler on the Horn
by Colleen Kruse

LAMBERT TO THE SLAUGHTER

Enough Is Enough

Enough Is Enough

Tuning Out Radio’s Advertising Overload
by Brian Lambert

AND NOW THIS

2Pooped2Pop

2Pooped2Pop

Time-saving I.M. acronyms for the senior set