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Dan Shapiro: The Man, The Myth & The Open Mic

"Dan Shapiro's Rigged Open Mic". This simple act has saved the city from the mundane and offered laughter and incomprehensible joy to many-a-Chicagoan. Mason Johnson had this to say about the reading ... read more

Missing Milwaukee, Timeflies energetically returns to close Summerfest

Some of the first words out of Timeflies band member Caleb Shapiro's mouth on stage Sunday at Summerfest ... lively audience members. I saw a young man in front of me doing a dance that looked like a ... read more

‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack

I think we are staring into a 21 st century rendition of it. To doubt the hollowed-out myth of American innocence is a grave sin against the faith. It is now unpatriotic to question the Russia-gate na... read more

MLK Day Open Thread, Featuring Spike Lee & Larry Elder: Is America Still Racist?

Today is a national holiday honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. the murdered civil rights leader whom the FBI tried to get to commit suicide. Read Matt Welch on King's "contested yet univer... read more

Trump idea on regulating Google 'unfathomable'

"The broader threat to First Amendment freedoms comes when the most powerful man in the world repeatedly says that you can only trust him, not news organizations or the search engines that deliver the... read more

Will 2017 be the antivaccine year?

Worldwide, measles still kills around 100,000 children each year. The myth that vaccines like the one that prevents measles are connected to autism has persisted despite rock-solid proof to the contra... read more

Einstein, insanity and the war on drugs

“We urge…the country to commence an open and honest debate about marijuana prohibition,” the economists said in an open letter to President George W. Bush, congress, governors and state legislators. “ ... read more

Norman Painting, 1924 - 2009

They are a tribute to the man who made the part of Phil Archer very much his own ... and on 'the other side' of the mic. It was a generous gesture for someone like me to be given such a master class b... read more

Dave Smith Instruments Intros Pro 2 ‘Dream Synth’

“A primary goal was to make the Pro 2 as open-ended and flexible as possible,” says Smith. “The four control voltage ins and outs really open up a world of interfacing possibilities with other gear. Y... read more

The List: Art exhibits

Grampa's Amp, 10 p.m., Hub Bar & Grill; The Jones Gang, 10 p.m., Crosstown Lounge. Sunday: Ramblin' Fever, 5 to 9 p.m., American Legion Club, East Grand Forks. Tuesday: Pluckstruck, 8 to 10 p.m., Tabu... read more

The New York Times as Judge and Jury

We’ve seen it before: a newspaper and individual reporters get a story horribly wrong but instead of correcting it they double down to protect their reputations and credibility—which is all journalist... read more