‘I didn’t want to be a journalist so much as I wanted to be an NPR reporter.’
There’s a lot packed into a quote like that, which is why it should come as no surprise it belongs to Wade Goodwyn, the Texas reporter for NPR who has a cult-like following among public radio fans, me included. Read more →
Can we get a little bit of love for the Star Tribune today? Specifically, for reporter Liz Sawyer who has solved the mystery caused by this photo, uploaded to Facebook on Sunday by award-winning 17-year-old photographer Gabrielle Bremer of Barnum. Read more →
Deadspin’s Drew Magary wasn’t even writing about beer when he penned his Green Bay Packers preview a couple of weeks ago. The insult to the state’s hops just sort of fit right after calling Green Bay “a disgusting fraud.” Read more →
It was all smiles a couple of weeks ago in Mankato when a mural on a new flood wall was unveiled featuring images of fishes painted by several artists. Who could create controversy out of a flood wall?
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A good obit makes you sad you missed out on meeting a person. Here’s an example.
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On Saturday, artists and volunteers at the Weisman Art Museum Collective at the University of Minnesota are going to pick up trash along the Mississippi River. They will create some sort of installation to show how our everyday actions are affecting the river. In one section, someone has beat them to it. Read more →
I have shared my love for Mary Norris, aka “The Comma Queen”, a number of times in this space, and today shall pose no disruption to the proper order of the universe. Her latest video, on location at a beach, encompass all things wonderful about The New Yorker, for whom — or, perhaps, which — Read more →
There’s not a lot of great news in the fifth annual Oxford University Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism survey. The most favored sources of news for people are the media least likely to provide in-depth information and, in many cases, serious news.
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Rich Dworsky is remaining with the show now that Garrison Keillor has retired. He’ll be music director of an entirely new band, new host Chris Thile has announced, according to Current. Read more →
Bradley Bartlett-Roche is pretty well known around Boston. He plays for tips around Faneuil Hall as the ‘Piano Kid,’ partly because the ‘Piano Man’ was already taken by another artist, and partly because he’s a kid. He’s 13. Read more →
Eight giant ships of yore, their sails unfurled, are expected to glide underneath the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge Thursday afternoon during the “Parade of Sail” to kick off Tall Ships Duluth 2016. Read more →
We must decide for ourselves which state fair is better, but you have to admit that the outhouse races in Iowa are, as we say in Minnesota, ‘different’ Read more →
A cemetery is a destination venue, but perhaps there are better ways to attract people to them than dying and funerals.
That’s the most fascinating aspect of the brouhaha over plans for a hot rod show at a Roseville cemetery: its directors want people to come visit without having it be about dying. Read more →
Your daily dose of bittersweetness. Read more →
If you watched the coverage of the Olympics last night, you got a look at the first trailer for the movie Hidden Figures, which, unfortunately, doesn’t come out until January. Read more →
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