Bob Collins
This is one of those days when a guy playing a piano at an airport in Prague is the faint string of civilization we’re grasping for.
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Arts & Culture
Especially in his frenetic appearances on late-night TV, it was difficult watching Robin Williams. Anyone who has battled depression or had a loved one tortured by it knew that his genius came from a dark place. Read more →
An old train car goes on a high tech mission. Read more →
August is the most underrated month on the calendar, resigned to being only known as the end of summer. Read more →
NPR’s Melissa Block is looking for a stranger who was passing through Minneapolis in late July 2013.
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Some years ago, a monkey got ahold of David Slater’s camera and took one of the best selfies in the history of monkeys taking selfies. Who owns the copyright if the monkey took the picture? It’s shaping up as one of the most fascinating copyright debates in recent years. The monkey can’t own the copyright Read more →
The University of Minnesota reportedly is joining an attempt to prevent the Vikings from using the word Redskins in promotional advertising for its Nov. 2 game at TCF Bank Stadium. Read more →
The Atlantic gives new life to the story of a Mormon born a boy but becoming a girl. Read more →
You think being a farmer is easy? It’s not. First, you have to learn to play the trombone.
Duluth never puts on a bad face. (h/t: Brandon Stahl)
The men of Minneapolis — some of them, anyway — are getting international attention for their Neanderthal ways. A Minneapolis woman — identified as 28-year-old Lindsey — has been filming men who catcall. It’s not pretty. “I am genuinely interested in what place this is coming from,” she tells Buzzfeed. She created Cards Against Harassment, Read more →
If there can’t be a nightspot honoring Bob Dylan on the Iron Range, can anything survive on the Iron Range? Aaron J. Brown writes on his Minnesota Brown blog today that a crowdstarter campaign has kicked off to reopen Zimmy’s, the Hibbing night spot and restaurant that closed abruptly last spring. In truth, this campaign Read more →
Louise “WeeZee” Miner of Bloomington was legally blind but she said she always could tell what a horse was doing at the Minnesota State Fair horse ring, where she passed out the ribbons. Read more →
As usual, Performance Today host Fred Child provides today’s vicarious escape from the monotony of the cubicle farm. Just not the way he usually does. Child took his flight while on break at the Aspen Music Festival this week. (h/t: Brad Althoff)
Whenever Minnesota examines its Minnesota Niceness, we are prompted to make popcorn, prop our feet up and watch the unfolding entertainment. We’d invite the neighbors over for the fun but we’ve never met them since they moved in two or three years ago. But that’s a story for another day. The Star Tribune kicked off Read more →