Bob Dylan has been full of surprises in the last month. First with the interview in the AARP Magazine, and second, by merely speaking. For about 40 minutes at last night’s MusiCares Grammy dinner. It was as if he’s been saving up a lifetime of words for one night. His full speech is below the Read more →
This video, posted last evening, provides a nifty look at buttoned-up Minnesota Capitol at night. It was taken during Crashed ice. Read more →
The news this week that Harper Lee would release a sequel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ has now turned decidedly ugly.
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Take a carpenter, and a writer, and an electrician, and a plumber, and a professor, and a doctor, and engineers, and several dozens others like them and put them together and what do you have? A symphony orchestra. Read more →
There’s really nothing that music can’t do, as today’s inspiring video from the New York Times proves. Again.
Why can’t it get a little respect from a civilized society?
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Curiously, the Star Tribune’s use of the word ‘blasphemy’ has sparked its own debate on whether it is. Read more →
It’s not much of a secret that public radio is white — really white. The lack of diversity has hardly gone unnoticed locally or nationally. The origins go far deeper than race. Back when I was a young college student, my Boston accent was (mostly) beaten out of me in a voice and articulation class. Read more →
If you had teenage angst in the ’60s and ’70s — and who didn’t? — you probably spent time curled up with a Rod McKuen book of poetry or listening to some of his spoken word recordings. Read more →
A couple of things here. First, tuition at Harvard is $58,607 a year.
Second — and really, more important — remember all that chatter about how East Coast cities don’t know what to do in blizzards. Read more →
They’re digging out from three feet of snow in New England today. And a principal at a private school in Rhode Island is getting the attention he craved with another parody no-school announcement. Read more →
Back in the infancy of the Internet, the experts told us it would give the voiceless a voice, empowering people in a way we can’t imagine.
We blew the chance. Read more →
In matters of winter, we could take a lesson from dogs, and the people who headed to Two Harbors on Sunday for the John Beargrease race. Read more →
Every year safe pilots wince at the risk a pilot takes so that a newspaper can get the signature photo of Crashed Ice in Saint Paul. Read more →
Not since they dressed up llamas at the Minnesota State Fair have we seen a competition quite like the images from the Miss Universe costume competition today.
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If you want to learn about Minnesota, can you do any better than a fashion reporter for the Wall Street Journal who’s based out of Los Angeles?
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