Bob Collins
We already knew that Marine on St. Croix might be Minnesota’s most wonderfully quirky Minnesota town, but Jana Shortal’s KARE 11 report last night on how it’s responded to a woman with cancer provides additional proof. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Arts & Culture
When the Minnesota Legislature convenes in Saint Paul next month, it’ll head for a showdown over whether businesses who don’t favor same-sex marriage should be required to do business with same-sex couples. How broad the legislation is isn’t entirely clear yet, since it hasn’t been filed. Read more →
A local non-profit in Seattle wants to compost dead people. Read more →
If the assassination of President Kennedy happened today, the Zapruder film would show people taking selfies. What is it with people? Terrorism and tourism are going hand in hand. Buzzfeed today notes that in Sydney, the scene outside the cafe where a gunman is holding an undetermined number of people, is almost as ugly as Read more →
Sophie Fellows, 9, was playing in a holiday concert in Vermont last week when she suddenly was overcome by a headache. She couldn’t finish the performance.
Sophie is in love with music and, in particular, the violin.
And her friends and music teacher are in love with her. Read more →
Remember that post I wrote this morning that with the Serial podcast we have to constantly recalibrate ourselves to remember that a real person died and other lives have been ruined, despite our entertainment with the subject?
Best Buy didn’t read it. Read more →
Is our obsession with photographing everything we see making flying less safe? Read more →
Another episode of Serial popped up in the podcast directory today. There’s only one left in the inaugural season of the podcast, which has redefined the standards by which all future podcasts are judged. Read more →
This is way better than dumping ice water on your head.
The Grand Forks Herald staff recently tried lutefisk the infamous Norwegian dish that makes any reasonable person wonder where Norwegieans went wrong, exactly. Read more →
Someone in America thinks Hallmark is secretly embracing Nazis and Hallmark is too skittish too just say, ‘”sometimes intersecting lines are simply intersecting lines.’ Read more →
President Obama took over Stephen Colbert’s job last night. Read more →
NPR’s national audience got a chance today to meet Nora Purmort, who has become well known in the Twin Cities now because of her chronicling of her and her husband’s life since his cancer diagnosis.
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Every now and again, Jon Stewart bites his lip and doesn’t try to be funny. Last night was one of those nights. Read more →
Not at all surprisingly, the obituary appearing in the Star Tribune today for Aaron Purmort, whose ‘crimefighting’ has been well documented on his wife’s blog, is nothing short of perfect.
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Eric Ringham
The short life of retail glory: a play in one act. Read more →