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    June 22, 2017
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    Album review: Roger Waters' first LP in 25 years finds him as agitated as ever
    We're at the point in history, now, where the rock gods are leaving us. Everybody has an expiration date, but the simple truth is that the icons...
    features/a&e19 hours 59 min ago
    Theater review: 'What She Said' offers diverse women's voices
    Selected from over 200 submissions, the seven one-act plays that comprise the first annual "What She Said" festival at the Underground offer stories that are — in order — cute, touching, intense, insane, unbelievably absurd, the opposite of boring, and an absolute comic...
    features/a&eJune 22, 2017 - 1:01am
    June 15, 2017
    Album review: Classic jazz is the order of the day on "Masquerade"
    What was going through this writer's head upon placing the latest album ("Masquerade") by The Gentlemen's Anti-Temperance League in the CD player:...
    features/a&eJune 15, 2017 - 6:37am
    June 8, 2017
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    ALBUM REVIEW: Ian Alexy tries a new sound on for size on "Deserters"
    A radical change in style can work really well for some people and terribly for others. There's just no way of knowing how it's gonna fly until...
    features/a&eJune 8, 2017 - 3:55am
    June 7, 2017
    Sofia Boutella stars in "The Mummy," in Duluth theaters Friday. (Universal Pictures)
    Movie review: 'The Mummy' can't quite wrap things up
    There is so much riding on "The Mummy," far more than its skeletal shoulders should have to withstand. The studio behind the summer horror-adventure...
    features/a&eJune 7, 2017 - 12:01pm
    June 1, 2017
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    ALBUM REVIEW: 50th anniversary reissue of 'Sgt. Pepper's' presents vivid new mixes
    It's one of those records that occupies its own space in the history of pop music. It exists, in some way, outside of time, outside of category....
    features/a&eJune 1, 2017 - 3:15am
    May 31, 2017
    "Time Stands Still" is now showing at the Duluth Playhouse through June 11. Photo by Duluth Playhouse
    Theater review: 'Time Stands Still' tackles the limitations of time to heal wounds
    In "Time Stands Still," the timely drama that opened Thursday at the Playhouse, photojournalist Sarah Goodwin (Cheryl Skafte) and writer James...
    features/a&eMay 31, 2017 - 11:49pm
    Gal Gadot stars in "Wonder Woman," which opens Friday in Duluth. (Clay Enos/DC Comics)
    Movie review: Gal Gadot is a wonder in 'Wonder Woman'
    features/a&eMay 31, 2017 - 8:58am
    May 25, 2017
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    ALBUM REVIEW: 'Singles' soundtrack reissue comes in wake of Chris Cornell's passing
    features/a&eMay 25, 2017 - 3:02am
    May 18, 2017
    Theater review: The wit's the thing in 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
    For years I've wanted somebody to put on Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." With the production that opens May 18 at the Underground, we finally get to see the wittiest play in the English language in Duluth. John Worthing (Jason Scorich) has come to town to propose...
    features/a&eMay 18, 2017 - 8:53am
    ALBUM REVIEW: New EPs from Minnesota acts illustrate that short can be sweet
    Time to once again get into the bite-sized morsels. This week, we're looking into quickies from former Duluthian Mary Bue and MR DR, which also...
    features/a&eMay 18, 2017 - 4:20am
    May 13, 2017
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    Theater review: Adults might laugh more than kids at 'Stinky Cheese Man'
    The Theatre for Young Audience's production of "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales," which opened Saturday afternoon at the...
    featuresMay 13, 2017 - 3:58pm
    May 11, 2017
    ALBUM REVIEW: Reissue of Elliott Smith breakout album a reminder of his genius
    By now, it's de rigueur for influential albums to get anniversary reissues. It's an easy way to force music fans into buying the same album...
    features/a&eMay 11, 2017 - 3:28am
    May 10, 2017
    Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn in the film "Snatched," which opens Friday in Duluth. TNS
    Movie review: 'Snatched' is a huge disappointment
    The promising young writer Katie Dippold, who wrote "The Heat" and "Ghostbusters," strikes out with her third feature, "Snatched." This mother-daughter...
    features/a&eMay 10, 2017 - 1:19pm
    May 4, 2017
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    ALBUM REVIEW: Ray Davies mines his past on 'Americana'
    When he was a young man, Ray Davies wrote like an old man. In his early 20s, he had already started penning odes to the way things were as the...
    features/a&eMay 4, 2017 - 4:00am
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