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Ready, set — precinct caucuses on Tuesday

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

The Republican caucuses may be the biggest news story in Minnesota on February 7, but DFL and Green Party caucuses are on for that night, too. You can locate your precinct on the Secretary of State's website. If you're Republican, you'll be able to vote in a presidential straw poll.MORE »

SATURDAY PICK | 5th Annual Ice & Snow Festival, perhaps without either

By Morgan Halaska, TC Daily Planet

Balmy—Minnesotans can use this adjective to describe winter this season without the usual hint of sarcasm. But what does that mean for the 5th Annual Snow & Ice Festival today at Griggs Park in St. Paul? Well, nothing really. Because, regardless of the mild weather, the "making the most of winter" mindset must go on.MORE »

SUNDAY PICK | It's big, it's gay, it's Super Bowl Sunday!

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

With Madonna as the main attraction, among gays Super Bowl XLVI's halftime show might be the most hotly-anticipated since Carol Channing took the gridiron in 1970. That makes it an especially opportune year for the Uptown Cafeteria to host its annual Big Gay Super Bowl party; among the planned attractions are dueling drag queens, touchdown Jell-O shots, and a DJ. If that's not enough incentive to get Uncle Doug off the couch, you might mention that there's also an all-day happy hour.

Integration: What is it good for?

By Alleen Brown, TC Daily Planet

How do the FAIR schools in Crystal and downtown Minneapolis exemplify integration? It sounds like a simple question for a magnet school run by the West Metro Education Program – a collaboration between 10 suburban districts and Minneapolis Public Schools, whose purpose it is to encourage school integration and equity.MORE »

FRIDAY PICK | Happy birthday to the Big Wu

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

One of my dad's proudest achievements as a parent is having introduced my brother Joe to the jam band that Joe and his friends, as teenagers, followed across the Upper Midwest in our family's giant conversion van. (Bumper sticker: where the heck is the big wu?) Minnesota's answer to the Grateful Dead have been chooglin' for two decades now, and they'll celebrate that landmark on February 10 at the Cabooze with what they describe as "the type of music that wants to course through your veins." Expect a crowd full of well-tracked ditches.MORE »

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• NEWS DAY | Looking on the bright side in Minnesota
• THEATER | “1968: The Year that Rocked the World” at History Theatre is eye opening still
• FRIDAY PICK | Gary Busey plays Buddy Holly at the Parkway Theater


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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Attend your caucus on Tuesday Feb 7th
FREE SPEECH ZONE | The DFL Comedy Academy
FREE SPEECH ZONE | The issue is incompetence
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Newt Gingrich is "tired of the elite media". I am tired of Newt Gingrich!
FREE SPEECH ZONE | In teachers' contract negotiations, "collaboration" is no substitute for transformative leadership

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