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   Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter

   By Chris DeLine

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter are anything but strangers to one another. Both were members of the sketch comedy show The State, which found a home on MTV in the...

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   Vaudeville Extravaganza!

   By Sarah Sawyer

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Mikael the Mime (a.k.a. Mikael Rudolph) typically ends his show by stating, "Laughter is good medicine." Here's a heaping spoonful of proof: Some very sought-after colleagues...

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   Miguel Zenón

   By Rick Mason

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Miguel Zenón is an outstanding young alto saxophonist and composer whose consistently intriguing work bristles with exciting variations of broad jazz history, bits of...

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   Rodrigo Y Gabriela

   By Ward Rubrecht

   Published: October 14, 2009

   When I say that Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero's shredding will melt your face, bear two things in mind. First, said shredding consists of inconceivably fast classical...

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   Paul Tough

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Changing the future of thousands of kids growing up in poverty in Harlem is a fairly hefty goal for one man. Besides the cyclical nature of poverty, in order to even begin...

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   Mindy Smith

   By Rick Mason

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Singer-songwriter Mindy Smith mines an indefinite middle ground of country, pop, and folk, anchored by a pretty soprano voice that ranges from a fragile vulnerability to a more...

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   Rain Machine

   By Peter S. Scholtes

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Though not the only singer or guitarist in TV on the Radio, robustly bearded Kyp Malone is the Brooklyn band's most iconic member, and his strengths—eerie falsetto, flair...

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   Maria Muldaur's Garden of Joy Jug Band

   By Rick Mason

   Published: October 14, 2009

   When Maria Muldaur leapt into the general consciousness in 1973 with her debut album, which included the sultry, chart-climbing charmer "Midnight at the Oasis," she seemed to...

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   Meshell Ndegeocello

   By Rick Mason

   Published: October 14, 2009

   As sinisterly ambiguous as its title, the primary theme of Meshell Ndegeocello's brand new album, Devil's Halo, is the treachery of love, which in her nearly unremittingly grim...

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    The Full Monty

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: October 14, 2009

    The 1997 film The Full Monty tracked a group of unemployed British men who hatched a zany scheme to rid themselves of their garments onstage in an effort to cobble together a...

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    Ruined

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Lynne Nottage's latest play grabbed a greedy passel of awards in 2009 (Pulitzer, Obie, Drama Desk), so it arrives still smoking at Mixed Blood. Ruined tells the story of Mama...

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    Eric Dregni

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: October 14, 2009

    It's been a while since we've seen a new book by the prolific Minnesota renaissance man Eric Dregni. The assistant professor at Concordia College has written or co-authored...

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    Ghostland Observatory

    By Ian Traas

    Published: October 14, 2009

    As a band, hailing from Austin, Texas, means coming up in a hotbed of musical activity that makes artistic evolution possible in the same way that a deep-sea volcano nurtures...

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    Kurt Vile & the Violators

    By Peter S. Scholtes

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Not shockingly new, just blazingly beautiful, Kurt Vile's take on post-Velvets/Stooges pop sounds like Robert Pollard dreaming the Clean: His four-dozen-odd tracks released...

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    Ballet of the Dolls: Pas de Quatre

    By Linda Shapiro

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Choreographer Myron Johnson deconstructs, debriefs, and decants four ballets made famous by the Ballet Russe in the early 20th century. You could say that if the Ballet Russe...

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    Andrew Zimmern

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: October 14, 2009

    He's drunk blood while in Uganda, he's consumed a roasted bat, and he's even had an Incan witch doctor beat him with a live guinea pig. No, Andrew Zimmern is not a vampire or a...

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    David Sedaris

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Of the many things one might expect to see on someone's bio, "award-winning humorist" is probably not one of them. Yet David Sedaris's résumé is loaded with...

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    Amy Millan

    By Ian Traas

    Published: October 14, 2009

    As a part of modern supergroup Broken Social Scene and the female lead in pop heartbreakers Stars, Amy Millan has plenty to do, so it's all the more remarkable that she finds...

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    Captured! By Robots

    By Bryan Miller

    Published: October 14, 2009

    JBOT, the humanoid formerly known as Jay Vance, has had a tough run of it lately. Two years ago, the last time he was scheduled to play the Twin Cities, a snowstorm closed a...

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    Ruthie Foster

    By Rick Mason

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Graced with sensational, classic soul pipes and a smoldering intensity, this Texas native more than lived up to the title of her 2007 breakthrough, The Phenomenal Ruthie...