Pulse of the Twin Cities
March 16 – March 22, 2005
Volume 8, Issue 50
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“Your Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper”
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Freedom on the March Two Years of War, Occupation and Opposition
by Alan Dale
http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1710
The weekend of March 19-20 will mark the second anniversary since the U.S. military invasion of Iraq. According to a study by public health researchers, up to 100,000 Iraqis have died and over 1,500 U.S. troops have died. Every Bush Administration pretext for waging war against Iraq, from weapons of mass destruction to ties with terrorism, have been exposed as lies. The war and occupation of Iraq have cost the citizens of the U.S. over $200 billion. The cost in 2006 is estimated to be at least $70 billion more.
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Students fight homelessness <article.php?sid=1709&PHPSESSID=591df152744c832929a059b4ffd4f092>*Teens brave freezing temperatures in Capitol Hill campout*/
by* Lydia Howell */
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1709
*Reading a Star Tribune article about the usually invisible “working poor,” Krystal Klein was stunned to find out that a janitor working at her college was homeless. *The Hamline University senior knew she had to take action.
“I realized that someone I knew could be homeless, and that really woke me up,” she said, adding that the news of the homeless janitor created “buzz” on campus, igniting other students’ concern.
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Letters to the Editor: Never miss it...Norm...Mercury ‘In Case You Missed It’ a highlight of my week
http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1706
I’ve started looking forward every week to the “In Case You Missed It,” and I find it one of the most entertaining and mind-blowing things being published in the Twin Cities.
Every time I read it, my first impulse is to think, “Is this a joke?” and yet it’s not. Frankly, I wouldn’t believe most of it, or would just assume it comes from some wacky Internet conspiracy theorists, except that each article comes with places where you can see it and prove it to yourself.
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The Bush Bubble by Jim Hightower
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1703
Do you think George W has ever even visited the real world—or has he spent his entire life in the bubble of special privilege to which he was born and in the political bubble maintained so carefully by his White House handlers?
Take the economy, which he keeps telling us is fantastic. Even in the rare case when economic reality confronts him, George doesn't get it. He recently flew to Omaha for one of his made-for-TV “conversations” with the people—although “the people” allowed in are always a hand-picked rent-a-choir for his political message-of-the-day.
------------------------------------------------------------ Gorgeous & New by Natasha Walter
http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1702
Do you like the idea of a comfortable home enhanced by abundant art? If so, you’ll like what Image Dump Exhibitions has to offer. Strolling down 6th Street NE, the gallery home may seem to be nothing out of the ordinary, but walk inside and you’re treated to inviting rooms bejeweled with paintings, drawings and prints by Keegan Wenkman and Ted Quinn in a show entitled Gorgeous and New.
------------------------------------------------------------ Fog: Apocalypse now by Holly Day
http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1700
“I don’t know if I’m a great lover of new technologies,” says Fog front man and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Broder. “I mean, they’re there. I’ll use whatever’s at my disposal that I happen to think sounds good. When you get into electronic music and things like that, there’s always a danger that the music becomes too reliant on new technology, and the music sometimes can feel empty in that way, where the music just becomes a matter of keeping up with the latest products, and if you don’t have them included in your music, you’re somehow behind the times. I’m very hesitant to get into that kind of thing. But that said, you know, it’s really cool to be able to make a whole album on your home computer,” he adds, laughing.
------------------------------------------------------------ The Worn Out Shoes: Isolation rock by Rob van Alstyne
http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1699
Things get weirder out in the country. Free from society’s watchful eye, people’s eccentric tendencies are left to grow unchecked, their behavior and style taking cues from the surrounding wilderness rather than the latest episode of the “O.C.”
Donny Moon knows this truth better than most. In a former life, in the city of Minneapolis, Moon was Phil Parhamovich, running mate of legendary local pop outfit the Hang Ups and musical partner with HU guitarist Jeff Kearns in the light pop leaning band the Waves. A few years back Parhamovich made the move to an isolated patch of rural Wisconsin … and things started get interesting.
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‘round the dial: The truth about Disney / CD reviews by Tom Hallett
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1698
Hey, hey, ‘Dial-heads! Another week of howlin’ terrestrial havoc and cosmic, pre-Apocalyptic omens gone by—and man, was it ever a doozy!! It can’t just be coincidence that in that very same week our good buddies at the Disney (ABC-TV-Radio/Cap Cities/etc., etc., etc.) Corporation announced their upcoming 50th anniversary plans for this summer, a giant, mysterious fireball “...streaked through the night sky over the Pacific Northwest...” That’s according to actual, real, government-approved news sources, too, folks.
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