Dylan will be on the cover of next months’ magazine but the AARP posted some excerpts of the interview today. Unsurprisingly, most of the interview is about the music.
But it takes a little used to getting use to Dylan talking about aging. Read more →
Marilyn Hagerty, the Grand Forks Herald reporter and food reviewer who has delighted us for years with her unpretentious reviews delivered without the insufferable snobbery of her big-city peers, has delivered again. Read more →
For sheer beauty, your next 365 days in Minnesota are covered, thanks to Jim Brandenburg, who has unveiled an ambitious project to document some of Minnesota’s beauty every day this year. Read more →
The greatest contribution to the nation has already been made. To promote its promotion, the White House has reassembled the surviving cast of the West Wing, which once counted Big Block of Cheese Day as one of its most popular episodes.
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Bernard Verlhac was buried in France today. He was one of the cartoonists killed in last week’s attack in Paris.
His casket was simple but adorned, perhaps, the only way a casket for a cartoonist should be adorned Read more →
If you didn’t know history well, you might be tempted to think that as our country ages, the U.S. Constitution gets weaker, not stronger.
The country has gotten comfortable with the notion that freedom can only be won with a gun.
It’s not quite true and the death of Al Bendich reminds us of that. More often that not, it comes from a lawyer who’ll stand up to power. Read more →
A twentysomething with no kids, no partner, and few adult obligations lost her mom. Then she had to figure out how to grieve like a grown-up, Washingtonian magazine says. Read more →
We have two choices as Minnesotans when it comes to winter: We can either surrender and hide under the covers, or embrace it.
The Bartz boys of New Brighton — Austin, Connor, and Trevor — have been making massive snow sculptures in their front yard (2777 16th Street NW) for the last few years and yesterday they completed the latest one, while showing the rest of us that we’re mostly doing winter wrong.
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Stillwater, Minn., which proudly lives in its past, is going to be a little less ’50s and ’60s to accommodate a lot more ’10s. Read more →
Comedy in the wake of tragedy presents a challenge to comedians. Read more →
What do we call us? ‘The thermally-challenged hell hole north of Iowa’ won’t fit on a license plate.
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For 23 years, the Great American Think-off in New York Mills, Minn., has helped thaw the collective brain of Minnesotans, paralyzed by the mind-numbing winters. Read more →
If there’s one thing the world didn’t need, it’s another reason to doubt the apparent best intentions of others, but thanks to a YouTube filmmaker, that’s what we’ve got. Read more →
You were doing medical school-level work back in the day when you watched Seinfeld. Read more →
Trust me, kids. You’re going to regret giving up the piano lessons.
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Bob Collins