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Arts & Culture

Let’s talk swearing

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 27, 2017, 8:45 AM Mar 27, 2017
26

We detect an odd theme in some news offerings this morning: Cursing and the science surrounding it. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Young Bob Dylan Wikimedia CommonsBob Dylan speaks. Sort of

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 23, 2017, 10:03 AM Mar 23, 2017
13
Young Bob Dylan Wikimedia Commons

Maybe it’s just as well he skipped the Nobel ceremony. He didn’t say much. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Dave Chappelle talks Prince

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2017, 12:34 PM Mar 20, 2017
1

Dave Chappelle doesn’t do many interviews. But with a three-part Netflix special, he broke his reticence to talk about Prince.

In an interview with CBS This Morning, Chappelle said his friendship with Prince had his beginnings when his sister went to a concert. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Chuck Berry should be on your radio

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2017, 11:14 AM Mar 20, 2017
19

Demographics aside, surely there must still be a place on the radio for his work. Read more →

Arts & Culture

The death of the newspaper columnist

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2017, 8:38 AM Mar 20, 2017
9

Jimmy Breslin, perhaps the most famous of the New York tabloid columnists, died on Sunday. He was 88. A legend. The nation’s newspapers don’t do legends anymore. Read more →

Arts & Culture

The power of the leprechaun

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 17, 2017, 8:33 AM Mar 17, 2017
0

StoryCorps’ Friday morning episode today provides some great advice: If you want results, dress like a leprechaun. Read more →

Arts & Culture

A win for the Oxford comma

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 15, 2017, 10:50 AM Mar 15, 2017
10

The Oxford comma — also known as a serial comma — will soon be extinct and a lot of people would like to make a federal case out of it.

Someone has.
Read more →

Arts & Culture

Women gave public radio its ‘sound’

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 15, 2017, 8:56 AM Mar 15, 2017
18

Deep in the recesses of the World Headquarters of NewsCut, there is a picture on a wall of the original employees of Minnesota Public Radio. Young Garrison Keillor, Michael Barone, and Gary Eichten standing with three others.

All of them were men. That’s the way radio was back then. Men. It wasn’t a place for diversity. Read more →

Arts & Culture

The Totenberg violin returns to the stage

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 14, 2017, 11:16 AM Mar 14, 2017
13

It’s unusual to read a story by NPR’s Nina Totenberg that doesn’t involve the U.S. Supreme Court; this one involves a violin.

But Totenberg has a personal connection to the violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1734. It was stolen from her father, virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, 38 years ago before it was recovered in 2015. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Speak no ill of Prince

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 13, 2017, 2:22 PM Mar 13, 2017
62

Thoughts and prayers this afternoon go out to the social media manager of Vice, who bit the bullet and posted this tweet today to promote an article. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Cancer claims Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 13, 2017, 1:27 PM Mar 13, 2017
2

Author Amy Krouse Rosenthal has died, a little more than a week after she tried to find a new spouse for her husband. Read more →

Arts & Culture · War

A photojournalist who changed the world retires

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 13, 2017, 8:58 AM Mar 13, 2017
6

Although they get credit in captions, photojournalists work in comparative obscurity. Read more →

Arts & Culture

On the power of words

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 10, 2017, 6:27 AM Mar 10, 2017
8

Today’s moment of sweetness comes from PBS NewsHour, whose “Brief but Spectacular” segments encapsule everything good about public TV.

Last evening’s segment featured writer Kelly Corrigan whose father got cancer around the time Corrigan was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Sixty-three years ago today, Murrow’s moment set a standard

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 9, 2017, 5:49 PM Mar 9, 2017
17

Sixty-three years ago tonight (Thursday), Edward R. Murrow set a standard which TV journalism has struggled to equal every day since.
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Arts & Culture

When license plates assault design sensibilities

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 9, 2017, 9:37 AM Mar 9, 2017
28

We learned something fascinating today in the Grand Forks Herald story about a new license plate for North Dakota: There is a contest for the nation’s best license plate. Read more →

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