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May 2007

Features

Code Check

Code Check

Genetic testing reveals a wealth of data about you and your family. But when it comes to your DNA, how much information is too much?

Bitter Pill

Bitter Pill

What if a drug designed to treat depression actually caused depression? It’s a question that has come to define one Minneapolis woman’s life.

Best Doctors for Women 2007

Best Doctors for Women 2007

Your guide to the Twin Cities’ best MDs for female patients—as chosen by their fellow physicians

True Grit

True Grit

Experience the real ways of the west at Knife River Ranch in North Dakota

Bar None

Bar None

Sometimes the best seat in the house is a stool

King of Comedy

King of Comedy

After 12 Fringe shows and dozens of local plays, Joseph Scrimshaw makes it big with Adventures in Mating

The Man Behind the Camera

The Man Behind the Camera

Music-video visionary Phil Harder makes the leap from MTV to the silver screen—and takes his eye-catching style with him

Maestra of Ceremonies

Maestra of Ceremonies

Rising Latina music star Maria Isa mixes hot beats with history

Special Delivery

Special Delivery

When priceless works leave the Walker Art Center to travel to other institutions around the globe, Heather Scanlan accompanies them—to protect and preserve

Columns

The Culture: Morel Majority

A morel education in southern Minnesota.

A Likely Story: Bring It On, Won't You?

Why my softball team will quite possibly defeat yours this year

1st Person Singular: Maternal Extinct

On Mother’s Day, a doting aunt examines her choice to go childless—and celebrates her ability to out-love those wire-and-terry-cloth monkeys

Sue Z: Sue Z Says

Cinco de Mayo restaurants, new bakeries and rotating chefs

Side Dish: Deep Blue

Spelunking in Faribault’s cheese caves

Side Dish: Rare Breed

John Hooper bets the ranch on a herd of yaks

Departments

Foreword: The Checkup

Mail: Your Letters

Comments from readers on the last issue of Minnesota Monthly

Talk: Tangled Up In Stats

Dylan Number Crunch, The Agenda & Valley Art

Talk: Burn, Baby, Burn

If Lee Frelich loves the Boundary Waters so much, why does he want to burn it down?

Talk: High School Confidential

Can you match these Minnesota yearbook pictures—and one out-of-stater—to the famous names?

Talk: Minute Critic

The Not So Big Life and Captain Yonder

Best Bets: The Arts

Minnesota Monthly's recommendations for cultural diversion in May 2007

Counter Culture: Martin + Osa

An expedition to Martin + Osa at the Mall of America.

The Look: Mother Love

Aprons are for amateurs. This year, find the perfect present for every mom.

Quick Bites: Rock Steady

Created by committee, Stone’s pleases crowds but doesn’t carve new territory

Quick Bites: Greek Unorthodox

Calypso Café fires up south Minneapolis’s next hot restaurant corner

Who: Keeper of Cures

From tonics to elixirs, pharmacy historian Bill Soderlund has time in a bottle