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Preaching to the choir

Gospel Gossip has been receiving a lot of hype after releasing their debut album, "Sing into My Mouth" last year on local label Guilt Ridden Pop. They were asked to play First Avenue's best new bands of 2007 showcase and achieved good reviews in ...

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Behind the seams

Forever 21 is a college girl's one-stop dream shop for cute, cheap and fashion-forward dresses and outfits appropriate for nearly every imaginable occasion, from summer wedding to cocktail hour downtown. Its designs are on-trend and current...

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The balloons are flying

An inflated balloon is a strange thing. Air on the outside, air on the inside. As long as you've got your rubber and your air, you've got a pretty decent balloon. It's a vapid structure. Not much substance to a balloon; tie a string to its knotted end and ...

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'New Deal' renewed at Weisman

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt put people to work as part of his New Deal programs in the 1930s, he didn't just work with farmers and construction workers. Creative types were also employed: writers wrote state guide books, musicians played ...

music

You (possibly) listen to terrible music

Now that you've made it past the abrasive and shocking title of the article, you're thinking one thing: "Oh no, some pretentious indie-kid is going to barrage me with buzz-bands from atop his vapid pretention-horse." Well Sir or Madam, valid concern. If I...

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Summer music preview

We're about to enter what is called "May Term," a limbo land of self-destructive freetime where all one has to worry about is the hysterical weather and whether your crazy old babysitter can be used as a reference on your résumé. (Unless you are taking a...

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Here comes the sun

We here at A&E think the Gershwins said it best: "Summertime and the livin' is easy." Though Minnesota Mother Nature has been playing tricks on us and toying with our seasonal affective disorder, before we know it the chilly wind and rainstorms will ...

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Ex-junky Jr's new fix: Bad action movies

"Iron Man," the newest addition to the line of comic superhero films from Marvel, tails Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), a prodigy world-warfare weapon designer/celebrity man-whore, as he one day realizes that his weapons are being used as liaisons ...

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The thieving is still grand

"Grand Theft Auto 4: Liberty City" is like New York turned inside out. There are no Sarah Jessica Parkers scurrying past fruit stands in Manolo Blahniks, no beach parties in the Hamptons, no school bus tours of kids ferrying to the Statue of Liberty. The ...

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A delicious bite of liberation

Halloween candy used to be hidden under the mattress of prolific writer Elizabeth Berg, but her secret snacking never rivaled the escapade of the main character of her new book's title story. Her decision to eat her way through the day is the ...

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