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Mashed potato wrestling?! Where?!

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Mashed potato wrestling, as practiced out west. Bring it, South Dakota! We're ready for you.

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet
July 22, 2008
You know that we're in the midst of the Minneapolis Aquatennial, but did you know that Polka Days are coming up this weekend in New Ulm? What if you felt like watching a minnow race...or a turtle race? What are "Woodies on the Water," and why have they been celebrated in Duluth for ten years? Where, oh where, can a person find a good Swedish Coffee Party these days?

You may grumble about the potholes still remaining in your street, but once you take a gander at the Festival and Event Guide at the state-sponsored Explore Minnesota Tourism site, you won't be able to say that the folks down at the Capitol have completely squandered your tax dollars. The site's search filters are a little unwieldy and the numerous results are returned in alphabetical order—but that means that you're apt to stumble upon unexpected events. Maybe you could have guessed that Minnesota was home to a Finn Fest or two, but the hot metal pours and eggstravaganzas will take you by surprise.

Jay Gabler is assistant editor of the Daily Planet.

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News Day

NEWS DAY | MN health care votes and Michele Bachmann’s lei / MN Job Watch / Deer hunting, baiting, eating / Afghan cops, Taliban

By Mary Turck, News Day

Minnesota Democratic Reps. Tim Walz, Betty McCollum, Keith Ellison and Jim Oberstar voted in favor of the health care bill, while Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson and Republican Republican Reps. John Kline, Erik Paulsen and Michele Bachmann voted against it. Oberstar joined Peterson and the Republicans in voting to bar all abortion coverage from the bill. The abortion amendment, which passed, provides that people who receive federal insurance subsidies cannot buy insurance plans that include abortion coverage. MORE

• MN health care votes and Michele Bachmann's lei
• MN Job Watch Biotech firm leaving
• Harder being unemployed How times are worse than in 1983
• Deer hunting, baiting, eating MN gun season opener was Saturday
• War reports Aghan police "penetrated by Taliban," suicide bombing in PakistanMORE »

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THEATER | Hardcover Theater's rollicking "She: Immortal Witch Queen of a Lost World"

By Matthew A. Everett, TC Daily Planet

With a title like She: Immortal Witch Queen of a Lost World, you know what you’re getting yourself into, if the theater company is doing its job right.  Hardcover Theater is definitely doing its job.  She is a rollicking good pulpy adventure tale, straight out of the best tradition of old B-movies.MORE »

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• Trader Joe What's with the new kid on the Twin Cities grocery scene? Tell sheila@tcdailyplanet.net what you think / like / dislike / wonder about Trader Joe. 

• St. Paul school superintendent The semi-finalists will be named this week, and the finalists by next week - any questions for them? Tell editor@tcdailyplanet.

• What's your story? Is there a story you'd like to write? Or a story you think we should be covering? Email editor@tcdailyplanet.netMORE »