Bob CollinsHow long would civil order last if there were actually a significant disaster in the U.S.? Read more →
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Arts & Culture
As long as radio survives, many Americans will get to enjoy a favorite pastime of media — critiquing voices coming out of their transistor.
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There’s little more tiring than the cliched ‘bet’ between politicians in cities involved in postseason play in sports.
But librarians? That’s an entirely different story. They understand the art of a rivalry.
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Unless you understand the happiness derived from low expectations, you’re probably not going to like it, Minnesota. But the rest of us? We long to return to the brand of our youth, sip flavored water, eat a cardboard doughnut and proclaim to you that it’s heaven. Read more →
There isn’t a lot of deep thinking in Back to the Future, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to think about, including the deepest: our inability to understand the relativity of time.
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Will Lager
The latest trailer for the upcoming Star Wars evokes resonates in a manner I have not felt since I was in the presence of a childhood VHS cassette. Read more →
It’s only Monday but we already have a clubhouse leader in the “I didn’t see that coming” competition. It stems from last week’s Star Tribune feature on the senior dancers at Lynx and Timberwolves games. The women of a certain age might be the most beloved half-time and game-break act in the Twin Cities. Today, Read more →
The Star Tribune reports the Twin City Model Railroad Museum has been told by landlords to pack up the trains and get out.
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Mary Norris’ job at the New Yorker includes pulling out the two spaces that some people leave after a period, leaving one, an issue that tears newsrooms and offices apart.
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Showtime’s ‘Homeland’ has long been criticized for Islamophobic stereotypes. ‘In just a few steps, the show has neatly stitched together all the current bogeymen of U.S. foreign policy,’ filmmaker Laura Durkay said last year as the show got more and more critical acclaim from the Hollywood press.
Now, a group of street artists, including a former Minnesota college student, has exacted some revenge. Read more →
Vincent will close at the end of the year after a 14-year run.
Chef Vincent Francoual says he wants to try something new. Read more →
If white men are really interested in supporting diversity in the public space, the very best thing they can do to achieve it, is sit down and be quiet. Read more →
If you don’t have cable TV, the baseball postseason doesn’t exist. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the arm of the sport that controls its media presence, has locked down online access. Even as it advertises its At Bat app to view the playoff games, it’s blacked out many of the games, presumably to protect the rights of the cable TV networks who have purchased them. Read more →
Is there anything better than raising a giant pumpkin with a crane and then letting it drop to watch it smash to pieces? Read more →
What kind of country have we become when we can’t even throw gourds anymore? Read more →