Bob CollinsIn Waltham, Mass., a Boston suburb, the summer reading list has substituted a podcast for a book. For the record, you can’t read a podcast. Read more →
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Arts & Culture
The Milwaukee Art Museum today is stoking the ongoing debate over what is art and what is vile trash. Read more →
Garrison Keillor has hinted at retirement from A Prairie Home Companion so many times that it’s a wonder there isn’t a nationwide grain-of-salt shortage.
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We people in Minnesota like to poke fun at our contemporaries to the east, but we have to admit that Wisconsin has a way about life that Minnesota doesn’t. Read more →
For the last few years, David Thorpe has wondered why some men ‘sound gay.’ I began asking people for their thoughts on the subject, and received a surprising range of answers. Read more →
You probably don’t recognize Don Featherstone’s name. But you will most likely recognize what he gave the world.
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Publisher Andrew Wallmeyer announced the MinnPost+ program, which will make some content available only to people who donate $60 or more a year. Read more →
Journalist Adam Ragusea acknowledges a poorly-kept secret: public media journalists — and journalists in general — lean left. Why pretend?
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Minneapolis author Steve Stratman is roiling the peaceful waters that typically surround the cycling scene in the Twin Cities.
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There aren’t many people left to whom thousands of other people turn to help process that which confounds us. Jon Stewart is the exception and he was at his best last evening on the subject of the killings in Charleston.
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In the big scheme of things, Kim Kardashian appearing last weekend on ‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!’ isn’t a huge deal. The show isn’t journalism, but public radio fans know a groundbreaking descent into garbage when they hear it.
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It’s been almost a decade since someone stole the ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in Wizard of Oz from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids and a search of an iron pit in Itasca County has come up empty. Read more →
Today’s news entertainment comes from watching journalists pretend to be upholding the public’s right to know in registering their displeasure that they weren’t invited to a free concert with Prince and Steve Wonder at the White House over the weekend Read more →
For most people, Rachel Dolezal’s race doesn’t matter. But she heads Spokane’s NAACP. She’s also a part-time professor in Eastern Washington University’s Africana Studies Program. Read more →
Wisconsin has always been a little bit ahead of its neighbor to the west when it comes to discouraging Native American mascots by sports teams. Read more →