Although this featured Moon's singing, much drumming was left to other artists, including Ringo Starr, session musicians Curly Smith and Jim Keltner and actor / musician Miguel Ferrer ( Twin Peaks and Crossing Jordan ).

Professional football in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area ( the " Twin Cities ") began with the Minneapolis Marines / Red Jackets, an NFL team that played intermittently in the 1920s – 30s.

Jesperson was the manager of Oar Folkjokeopus, a punk rock record store in Minneapolis, and had also founded Twin / Tone Records with a local recording engineer named Paul Stark.

With the agreement of Stark and the rest of the band, the Replacements signed to Twin / Tone Records in 1980.

After the Replacements signed to Twin / Tone, Westerberg began to write new songs, and soon had a whole album's worth of material.

Although not important at the time, Twin / Tone could not afford to release the album until August 1981.

Because they were suspicious of the music business in general, the Replacements had not signed a written contract with Twin / Tone Records.

the Replacements had a friendly rivalry with the band, which started when Twin / Tone chose the Replacements over Hüsker Dü, and Hüsker Dü landed an opening slot at a Johnny Thunders gig that the Replacements wanted.

Jesperson was convinced the song sounded like a hit, and pleaded to fellow Twin / Tone co-owners Stark and Hallman: " I will do anything to get this out.

With a batch of new songs, the Replacements entered a warehouse in Roseville, Minnesota to record their next album, with Twin / Tone co-owner Paul Stark engineering.

It consists of songs from both the Twin / Tone and Sire / Reprise records years and includes two new songs, " Pool & Dive " and " Message To The Boys ".

On April 22, 2008, Rhino released re-mastered deluxe editions of the bands four Twin / Tone albums with rare bonus tracks.

MPR's news and information service, originating from KNOW-FM ( 91. 1 FM ) in the Twin Cities, includes a mix of locally produced programs and national / international shows.

Originally titled Swamp Pussy, Spanking Machine was recorded with grunge producer Jack Endino at Seattle's Reciprocal Recording and released in April 1990 on Minneapolis ' Twin / Tone Records.

Scott County is a mixed rural / suburban county in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

* K105 / Twin Lakes Times-Grayson County's local FM radio station ( FM 104. 9 ) and daily web-based newspaper.

Girlfriend From Hell is a 1989 comedy / horror B-movie starring actor Dana Ashbrook of Twin Peaks fame, and Liane Curtis of Sixteen Candles, as well as several B-movies of the 1980s.

* K216FA 91. 1 FM Religious / Christian ( simulcast of Twin Falls KAWZ 89. 9 )

Brooklyn Park is a northwestern suburb of the Twin Cities Metropolitan area of Minneapolis / St.

* The KMSP TV Tower, owned by Fox O & O duopoly KMSP / WFTC ( Channels 9 / 29 ) stands high and is also utilized by the stations of Twin Cities Public Television ( KTCA / KTCI 2 / 17 ), and ten FM stations.

* Twin Tone Records ( audio and video )

The band recorded three albums with Twin / Tone Records and two with A & M Records to little commercial success.

Their 1984 debut album, Say What You Will ... Everything Can Happen was originally released on LP and cassette by local record label Twin / Tone as a nine song EP.

* Say What You Will, Clarence ... Karl Sold the Truck ( 1984 ) ( Twin / Tone )

* Made to Be Broken ( 1986 ) ( Twin / Tone )

* While You Were Out ( 1986 ) ( Twin / Tone )

Louris returned and the sum of the collected demos from 1986-1989 were brought together to create Blue Earth, released on the Minneapolis label Twin Tone in 1989.

In 1991, Dave Ayers, the president of Twin Tone, was on a phone call with A & R representative George Drakoulias from Def American while Blue Earth played in the background.

Other important studios in Minneapolis include the Dove studio, which released several cult classic psychedelic and garage rock recordings in the 1960s, Blackberry Way, founded by Paul Stark, who would later co-found the Twin / Tone record label.

Largely only known locally for new wave, The Suburbs were released under the local Twin / Tone Records label in 1978, and opened shows for Iggy Pop and The B-52's.

" Every A & R person in New York was present at CBs while The Replacements joyously flushed the set down the toilet, doing nothing but fractions of other people's songs ," said Peter Jesperson who recorded them for Twin / Tone.

American indie record labels SST Records, Twin / Tone Records, Touch and Go Records, and Dischord Records presided over the shift from the hardcore punk that then dominated the American underground scene to the more diverse styles of alternative rock that were emerging.

I'd send off these little notes to my favorite labels like SST and Twin Tone and ask, ' How do I do this?

* Model 50 Twin Bonanza Two-engine utility aircraft ; despite its name was not a development of the Bonanza

Under new management it was revitalized and saw a partial return to its original domestic role with the reintroduction of several domestic scheduled routes, because of the addition of two Shorts Skyvan SC7 aircraft, and a second Twin Otter DHC-6 aircraft.

Then, as from 1975, a Havilland Twin Otter of 16 places was used on the Mauritius-Rodrigues route.

Minoru Yamasaki ( December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986 ) was an American architect, best known for his design of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, buildings 1 and 2.

The name " Twins " was derived from the popular name of the region, the Twin Cities.

Griffith was determined not to alienate fans in either city by naming the team after one city or the other, so his desire was to name the team the " Twin Cities Twins ", however MLB objected.

However, the team was allowed to keep its original " TC " ( for Twin Cities ) insignia for its caps.

The search for the first head coach had the team court then-Northwestern University head coach Ara Parseghian, who according to Minneapolis Star writer Jim Klobuchar — the Vikings ' first beat reporter for that newspaper — visited team management in the Twin Cities under the condition that his visit was to be kept secret from his current employer.

For example, Konami was forced to remove all references to cigarettes in the 2000 Game Boy Color game Metal Gear Solid ( although the previous NES version of Metal Gear and the subsequent GameCube game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes both included such references, as did Wii title MadWorld ), and maiming and blood were removed from the Nintendo 64 port of Cruis ' n USA.

The first such gravitational lens to be discovered was the double-imaged quasar Q0957 + 561 ( or Twin Quasar ) in 1979 A grouping of two or more quasars can result from a chance alignment, physical proximity, actual close physical interaction, or effects of gravity bending the light of a single quasar into two or more images.

Twin Peaks was a primetime soap opera that poked fun at the genre.

A federal technical building an fire safety investigation of the collapses of the Twin Towers was conducted by the United States Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ).

The report concludes that the fireproofing on the Twin Towers ' steel infrastructures was blown off by the initial impact of the planes and that, if this had not occurred, the towers would likely have remained standing.

David Duchovny had appeared as a cross-dressing DEA agent in Twin Peaks, and the Mulder character was seen as a parallel to the show's FBI Agent Dale Cooper.

Twin Peaks pilot episode was first broadcast on April 8, 1990 on ABC, which led to another seven episodes being produced and a second season, which aired until June 10, 1991.

*" The Black Cat " was adapted and performed with " The Cask of Amontillado " as Poe, Times Two: Twin tales of mystery, murder ... and mortar -- a double-bill of short, one-man plays written and performed by Greg Oliver Bodine.

Barker was a Professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota during the period when David Arneson, Gary Gygax and a handful of others were developing the first role-playing games in the Twin Cities and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

The World Trade Center, built in the 1970s, was very plain and utilitarian in comparison ( the Twin Towers were often criticized as looking like two big boxes, despite their impressive height ).

Lewiston State Normal School, now Lewis-Clark State College, was established in 1893, as was another normal school or teacher education college, now defunct, in the south at Twin Falls.