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Week of May 10, 2012
- Girls Got Rhythm: The girls CAN help it
- Girls Got Rhythm: Behind the eyeliner
- Art: Rocks in the Garden
- Alexis on the Sexes: Pina colada?
- The Crawl: Prescription for Burch: more cow
- Shopping + fashion: Death becomes you
- Fashion: Full bloom
- Local music: Double Dylan
- Sports + rec: Fish in the city
- Music: Keys to success
- Performance spotlights: Paul F. Tompkins, Norm Macdonald and 'Soul Project'
- Bar & restaruant deals 5/10: Kingfield for a dime
- Bars/clubs: Devil's Advocate
- Work: Ginger Jane
- Movies: 'Dark Shadows' a dud
- Weekend spotlights: Decentralized Dance Party and St. Paul Craftstravaganza
- Music: Slash's paradise
- Movie spotlights: 'Darling Companion' and 'Surviving Progress'
- Movie spotlight: 'God Bless America'
- Fashion: Beauty school and Bamboo tees
- Q&A: Kristin Van Loon
- Art spotlight: 'Eye of the Beholder'
Week of May 3, 2012
- Creme de la cream
- Fashion: Local Artist Jewelry Mart
- Choppy waters at the Oceanaire
- Performance: Degrees of 'Doubt'
- Sports: Building blocks for the Vikings
- Bar & restaurant deals 5/3: Cheapo de Mayo
- Local music: Pennyroyal going 'places'
- Bars/clubs: Republic of taps, and more nightlife news
- Art spotlights: Traffic Zone Artists Open Studios and 'Undr Mpls'
- Work: Fashion visionary
- Movies: Superpowerful 'Avengers'
- Shopping + fashion: Triangulated
- Performance spotlights: Baron Vaughn and Ballet of the Dolls
- Art: What's in store for Whittier
- The Crawl: Florence becomes Flo Bot at the State
- Movie spotlight: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'
- Weekend events: Cinco de Mayo and MayDay Parade & Festival
- Tech: Head-turning phones
- Movies: Cold war, hot moves in 'Hipsters'
- Fashion: Sweet emotion
- Q&A: Matthew Jacobs
- Movie spotlight: 'The Hunter'
- Alexis on the Sexes: Love shack
Week of April 26, 2012
- Going with the Flo
- Food + drink: We'd tap that
- Art spotlights: St. Paul Art Crawl and Whittier Artists in Storefronts
- Alexis on the Sexes: Be my baby
- Shopping + fashion: The short shift
- Movies: 'I do,' delayed in 'The Five-Year Engagement'
- Performance spotlights: Bo Burnham and 'Steampunk Delusions'
- Fashion: Haute-House Garden
- Fashion: Shared vision
- Work: Big Quarters work it out
- Bar & restaurant deals 4/26: Best of the film fest
- Performance spotlight: Storycraft with Kevin Kling
- The Crawl: Vague political graffiti rocks the Garden
- Restaurants: Seasoned sense at Saffron
- Tech: Fitness goes mobile
- Performance: 'Latina' lessons
- Movie spotlight: 'The Island President'
- Movies: Live and learn in 'Monsieur Lazhar'
- Movie spotlights: 'The Salt of Life'
- Movie spotlight: 'Safe'
- MSPIFF 2012: Rest of the fest
- Sports + rec: 'Muggle quidditch' is growing fast at the U of M
- Q&A: Alex Nutter
- Movies: Nevermore 'Raven', please
- Movies: Ahoy, misfit mateys in 'The Pirates'
- Movies + music: Documentary follows Andrew Bird's 'Fever Year' on tour
Week of April 19, 2012
- Spring fashion 2012: The new bohemian
- Spring fashion 2012: Galileo, magnifico
- MSPIFF 2012: Travel by film
- Fashon: So, so sassy
- Spring fashion 2012: Peach parfait
- Q&A: Barbara Paz
- Bars/clubs: Speakeasy 2.0
- Weekend spotlights: Gastro Non-Grata, Sol Bock Revival and Great Twin Cities Poetry Read
- Performance spotlights: Bobcat Goldthwait, Adam Carolla and 'Captial Crimes'
- Fashion: 'Fashion & Interiors' and Freedom From Doubt
- Bar & restaurant deals 4/19: Last days of college
- Movie spotlights: 'The Bad News Bears' and 'Slap Shot'
- Work: Fair-trade fashion
- Spring fashion 2012: Scaramouche, Scaramouche
- Spring fashion 2012: Credits
- Shopping + fashion: It's in the bag
- Spring fashion 2012: Knit to print
- Movie spotlights: 'We Have a Pope,' 'Marley' and 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'
- Ask the restaurant critic
- Sports + rec: What's the buzz on the Swarm?
- The Crawl: 4onthefloor turns on giant Lite-Brite at First Ave
- Art spotlights: 'Isohyet; Isopleth' and 'Second Hand Emotion'
- Movies: Good girls in 'Damsels'
- Alexis on the Sexes: Block it
- Local music: Day of records
Week of April 12, 2012
- Howler or bust
- Fashion: Makeshift Accessories trunk show
- Art: Kitsch me
- Movie spotlight: 'The Kid With a Bike'
- Movies: 'Cabin in the Woods' is a fiendishly fun thriller
- Video games: 'Xenblade' a game changer
- The Crawl: The inside story on River's Edge
- MSPIFF 2012: All over the map
- Alexis on the Sexes: Good thing?
- Shopping + fashion: Flower power
- Local music: Brain Tumors
- Performance spotlights: Toy Theatre After Dark and 'Where We're Born'
- Sports + rec: Chin music
- Movie spotlights: 'Bully' and 'The Lady'
- Bar & restaurant deals 4/12: Game day specials
- Music: Loads of fun.
- Food + drink: 'Drink is extinct'
- Restaurants: Heavy Table's official scorecard for the new Target Field menu
- Performance: A 'Spring Awakening'
- Weekend spotlights: FashionBall, Envision: Artopia and Minne Maker Faire
- Fashion: Taking flight
- Art spotlight: Artcrank
- Restaurants: New fare at Target Field
- Q&A: Naythen Gaut
Week of April 5, 2012
- Music: Trampled by Turtles live from Duluth
- Food + drink: Late-night sweet tooth
- The Crawl: For the last time, it's just Nick and Eddie, not 'Nick and Eddie's'
- Movies: 'The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye'
- Fashion: Zou Bisou Bisou
- Work: One man's trash
- Performance spotlights: Demetri Martin and Judah Friedlander
- Music: The traditionalists
- Q&A: Serene Enloe
- Movie spotlight: 'Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie'
- Art: Time, space & tech
- Movies: 'American Reunion'
- Alexis on the Sexes: Dateless
- Fashion: Ship&Shape spring collection
- Restaurants: Bibimbap for lunch
- Tech: Battling chaos in "Resident Evil"
- Sports + rec: She's dynamite
- Events spotlight: Spring Ale Fest and more
- Bar & restaurant deals: Savings by any name
- Shopping + fashion: Pretty pastels
- Restaurants: Got it down pat
- Art spotlights: 'Parables of Mutation' and 'Los Cuatros Ases'
- Music: Heavy Endurance
Week of March 29, 2012
- The souls of 'Wits'
- Art: Paint in the machine
- Movies: 'Goon' is checked out
- This weekend: 'The Playful Peacock Show' and Rockstar Storytellers: Fools!
- Bar & restaurant deals 3/29: 3 for Four
- Bars/clubs: St. Paul's Coffee News Cafe revamps its menu to attract diners
- Shopping + fashion: Blame it on the rain
- Fashion: Rock 'n' Roll Hair Show a Go-Go
- Restaurants: Talk foodie to me
- Sports + rec: Spring, summer adult sports leagues are filling up fast
- Tech: Four fab tablets
- Q&A: Clement Shimizu
- Tim Meadows returns to radio for 'Wits'
- Movies: 'Mirror, Mirror'
- Movies: 'The Raid' is relentless
- Fashion: Beach bodies
- Music: The Old 97's' Rhett Miller comes to town for 'Wits' opener
- Art spotlights: Sharon Louden and Dyani White Hawk
- Performance spotlights: John Hodgman, 'Nerdist Podcast Live!' and 'Hip Hop?'
- Alexis on the Sexes: Sex fatigue
- The Crawl: Smack Shack launching a restaurant
- List of Lists 2012: Complete Rules
- Movie spotlights: 'Footnote' and 'Spirits of St. Paul'
Week of March 22, 2012
- Mad for vintage
- Fashion: Perfect 10s
- Music: Jonny Corndawg
- Restaurants: Zen Box Izakaya looks to the East
- Performance spotlights: Houston Ballet, 'Not Guilty!' and ARENA Bikini
- Shopping + fashion: Are you still mad?
- Work: Rethinking recycling
- Weekend spotlight: Minnesota Beard-Off
- Local music: South by MN
- Bar & restaurant deals 3/22: Discount dining
- Alexis on the Sexes: Turned off
- Sports + rec: Bocce bar
- Restaurants: La Cocina de Ana
- The Crawl: The Brick lays the Egg on opening night
- Movie spotlights: 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' and 'Being Flynn'
- Movies: Against the odds in 'The Hunger Games'
- Q&A: Tricia Khutoretsky
- Performance: Making 'Hay'
- Fashion: Pierrepont Hicks ties at Walker
- Art spotlights: 'Frank' and 'The Miscreants of Tiny Town'
Week of March 15, 2012
- Beyond the bloody
- Bar & restaurant deals 3/15: Serve me, I'm Irish
- Alexis on the Sexes: Don't love me
- Movie spotlight: 'The Forgiveness of Blood'
- Video games: Critical 'Mass'
- Fashion: Annie Larson at Askov Finlayson
- Movies: Man of the 'Casa'
- The Crawl: 'Hunger Games' hype hits MOA
- Food + drink: Green beer revival
- Movie spotlight: 'Seeking Justice'
- Movies: Sweet 'Home' gets laughs just right
- Shopping + fashion: Put a bird on it
- This weekend: World's Largest Gathering of Ninja Turtles
- Work: Frozen yogurt freedom
- Local music: The Brick opens
- Restaurants: Let 'em frybread
- Art spotlights: '365D: Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days of a Woman'
- Fashion: Are you leather?
- Sports + rec: The Twin Cities Auto Show
- Movies: Comic and hunk meet on 'Jump Street'
- Food + drink: St. Paddy's rules
- Performance: Flying Foot Forum's love connection
- Performance spotlights: 'Hay Fever' and 'Edith Can Shoot Thing and Hit Them'
- Movies: A win-win situation in 'Undefeated'
- Q&A: Sarah Edwards
Week of March 8, 2012
- Anger management
- Alexis on the Sexes: Ex sympathy
- The Crawl: Prissy Clerks win at Vita.mn's Are You Local? bash
- Fashion: Blow-dry bars blow up
- Shopping + fashion: Dance dance to the radio
- Fashion: Lasting looks
- Restaurants: An artful flair at Mezzanine
- Restaurants: Going full Boar
- Performance: Angry birds
- Movies: '21 Jump Street' not-so-odd couple
- This weekend: MarsCon and The Imbibes of March
- Music: Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott balances the boys in her trio
- Movies: Mama drama in 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'
- Movies: Going underground 'In Darkness'
- Tech: Players' playoff
- Art: Nature's flurry
- Movie spotlights: 'Addiction Incorporated' and 'Silent House'
- Movie spotlight: 'I Want My Name Back'
- Sports + rec: MVBs: most valuble blogs
- Movies: 'John Carter' a martian mess
- Movies: Part-time parenthood in 'Friends With Kids'
- Bar + restaurants deals 3/8: Bargain burgers
- Work: Like riding a bicycle
- Performance spotlights: 'The Story of My Life' and 'We, the Others'
- Art spotlights: 'Black and White' and Rosalux 10th Anniversary
- Food + drink: Raw passion at Pashen
Week of March 1, 2012
- Vita.mn's 2012 Are You Local?
- The Crawl: Primebar coming to old Il Gatto/Figlio space
- Local music: Adam Levy before & 'After'
- Food + drink: From Bach to Bock
- Restaurants: Taste of the good life at La Belle Vie
- Video games: Super 'Soul' fighter
- Shopping + fashion: Ship shape
- Art: 'Lifelike' is more than skin deep
- Movies: Power play in 'Coriolanus'
- Movies: 'Project' a bomb
- @work: Into the woods
- Sports: The Vikes start over
- Weekend spotlights: Literary Death Match and Dessa
- Fasion: Best week ever
- Alexis on the Sexes: Kiss my buss
- Fashion: Tatters half-off sale and Arrow, now open!
- Movies: 'W.E.' a crown failure
- Are You Local? 2012: Marquis talent
- Performance spotlights: Wheel Sexy Cabaret, Brian Regan and Arena Dances
- Performance: Love is 'Blind'
- Are You Local? 2012: The Japhies' art-free rock
- Movie spotlight: 'The Seventh Seal'
- Restaurants: Mexican roulette at Rosa Mexicano
- Are You Local? 2012: Honorable mentions
- Movie spotlights: 'Crazy Horse' and 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia'
- Are You Local? 2012: Babe reborn with Prissy Clerks
- Art spotlights: Sharon Louden and 'Art(ists) on the Verge'
- Q&A: Ella Chrenka
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