6/25 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

Check out dozens of photos from yesterday's Ashley Rukes GLBT Pride Parade in our gallery section.

Steve Monaco has posted this week's Monday Movie Quiz at Couch Pundit.

Japanese punkers Melt Banana had the Entry quaking last night. Read Christopher Matthew Jensen's review and view Daniel Corrigan's photos in our gallery section.

Peter Schilling Jr. recaps the Twins' victory over the Marlins, including some heavy hitting by Johan Santana, at Balls.

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THESE DAYS

The sugar found in fruit such as apples and oranges can be converted into a new type of low-carbon fuel for cars, according to scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [via Undernews]

Four percent of U.S. adults have never had sex in their lives, and the figure climbs to 12 percent in the case of Mexican-Americans, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

An Alaska man has pleaded guilty to selling more than 100 fur seal penises to a local gift shop that intended to sell the items as an aphrodisiac.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Steve McPherson reviews concerts, discusses local music, and interviews musicians at Signal Eats Noise.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"It was Iwo Jima to us when we took it. We'll recognize whatever the Japanese want to call it but we'll stick to Iwo Jima."

— Retired Marine Maj. Gen. Fred Haynes, commenting on Japan's renaming the island of Iwo Jima to its pre-World War II name, Iwo To, at the urging of its original inhabitants