Bob CollinsIt’s too early to declare terrestrial radio dead. Nonetheless, these feel like days when we’re watching an old pal in cultural hospice.
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Arts & Culture
Stoners are stealing the 420 street signs because it’s a reference to cannabis culture, and April 20 has become an unnamed cannabis holiday.
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Times have changed and people no longer are as restricted about the information they’re able to receive.
The minister is questioning whether the BBC still needs to be a global service. Read more →
How to stop the chaos of bar closing time in Minneapolis? Maybe it’s music, the Star Tribune says. Read more →
In Fargo, the First Amendment is running up against the creepiness of a man taking photos of women and children at city parks. Read more →
The myth surrounding Bob Dylan says that he was booed at the Newport Folk Festival 50 years ago this month when he plugged in an electric guitar to play three songs.
A new book says it’s not true, at least the way the story is told. Read more →
The ‘Sugardale barn’ on I-35 north of Northfield is no more. It is now blue. Read more →
Donald Gould, who acknowledges being a drunk and an addict, had hoped some Internet attention would allow him to reunite with his son after 15 years. It didn’t end well.
It has.
TV news stations have tried to make the story a warm and fuzzy, but it’s not. Not yet. Read more →
Theater-goers, what on earth is wrong with you? You buy tickets to a show, and then you spend part of it on your phone texting.
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While everyone was focused on South Carolina’s vote last night on flying the Confederate flag on state property, another controversy over racial/ethnic displays was playing out at a museum in Boston.
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You can’t beat a song around the world to start a day. Playing for Change is a movement to connect the world through music. And why not? Nothing else seems to be working.
The video released this week honors the Grateful Dead’s final concert.
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When pianos were placed around St. Paul a few years ago as a public arts project, organizers never got a response like the similar project in Sarasota, Florida.
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Sonia Manzano never got the same credit for helping raise your children that other characters on Sesame Street did.
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Douglas Legler’s obituary in today’s Fargo Forum is shorter than his name, the paper notes.
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Last week, as I’m sure you know by now, President Barack Obama broke into song at the funeral of Clementa Pinckney, killed in the attack on a Charleston, S.C., church. It was Amazing Grace, a song with a significant history of its own. MPR colleague Tesfa Wondemagegnehu today forwarded this essay from a friend he Read more →