Bob Collins
Is there legitimacy to the hurt feelings and online outrage against Mpls.St.Paul magazine, which is under fire for this cover?
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Arts & Culture
Rather than an art installation, the city got performance art, instead — a rootin’ tootin’ Midwesterner on display who didn’t let the wrath of winter get him down. Read more →
We could learn a lesson from Hindus when it comes to welcoming spring. Read more →
My dad was a salesman. He told groceries to grocery stores and, after an attempt at running his own grocery store failed, he sold insurance.
He was good at it; he was great at it, actually. ‘If you don’t see anybody, you can’t sell anybody,’ he told me in the early days of my own attempt to follow him into the business. Read more →
A kerfuffle in the world of classical music is testing the parameters of artistic freedom. Read more →
You had to know there was a great story behind these tweets yesterday from Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany of basketball-playing Prince. Read more →
The Three Stooges made comedy by poking fun at Hitler. Is ISIS/ISIL off limits?
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A video purports to show the destruction of a civilization. Read more →
Just four more days until Netflix uploads the third season of House of Cards, the Kevin Spacey series of political intrigue and lust for power.
Here. Entertain yourself while you wait with the story of Frank Underwolf wanting to take over the white house of bricks. Read more →
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Garrison Keillor is leaving hints that he’s about to hang it up.
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Let’s follow up on last month’s post asking when music in schools is going to get a little respect.
The answer in South Washington County, which sparked the post because it intended to cut music programs in elementary schools, is: tonite. Read more →
It’s only a matter of time before some enterprising public radio station gives away ‘I Am Lakshmi Singh’ hats during a pledge drive.
Tote bags? So very yesterday. Read more →
They held David Carr’s wake in New York last night. The New York Times columnist died from complications of lung cancer last week.
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Valentine’s Day can be tough on couples who’ve never said ‘I love you’ to each other. Read more →
Carr, a native of Hopkins, was 58. Ironically, his death made the front page of today’s New York Times, but not most Minnesota editions. Read more →