Bob CollinsThe tribute last night to the inductees of the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame revealed a continuing split between the artists it honors and the institution. Read more →
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Archives for April 2016
For those of us of a certain age who grew up watching the likes of Jules Bergman and Frank McGee and Walter Cronkite covering space missions with plastic models to describe what was happening, today’s SpaceX launch was a reconfirmation that we live in interesting times. Read more →
The girl’s hockey coach at Stillwater High School has resigned for mysterious reasons but as is usually the case, particular with schools, the privacy cone of silence has dropped over the situation. Read more →
What does it look like when someone opens fire on you because you tooted your horn at them at a green light at a major Minneapolis intersection? It looks like this. Read more →
Bruce Springsteen announced on his website that Sunday’s concert in North Carolina is canceled because of a new law that fails to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories in an anti-discrimination law. Read more →
There’ve already been several rainouts and postponements because baseball insists on having northern teams playing at home, while teams in domed stadiums play each other, teams in southern California play each other, and while teams in Texas go on the road. Read more →
In the eyes of the law in Wisconsin, a dog has no emotional value.
An Onalaska couple has lost a bid for a larger award for the injuries to their dog, after arguing that the same law that inflates the market value of photographs and heirlooms should apply to family pets too. Read more →
An investigation into government spy planes shows Minneapolis is one of the handful of American cities getting overhead attention. Read more →
Ron Krassin put his quadcopter to good use yesterday, documenting the damage from the fire yesterday that destroyed the Tink Larson ballfield in Waseca. Read more →
Thanks to the migration patterns of previous centuries, people from Sweden aren’t the exotic species in Minnesota that they might be elsewhere.
But I couldn’t ignore the invitation of the Swedish Tourist Association to call a ‘random Swede,’ part of its campaign to get people to know the place. Read more →
An odd thing happened today when someone wore a T-shirt of a sports team featuring a racial caricature. It offended some people. Read more →
When they arrived last night in Kansas City, a few people greeted them, but the family’s sponsors didn’t announce the time of their arrival so even if Kansas City wanted to put on a big display of open arms, Kansas City couldn’t. Read more →
There’s certainly plenty to love in this video about a group of surfers on Lake Superior. The visuals are stunning. More impressive is the revelation that they’re not just chasing waves on a lake.
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In the category of ‘What’s Your Passion?’ we give you Mike Dennison, 37, of Stoneham, Mass., who invites us to consider the source of our various inspirations. Read more →
You’ve probably seen the occasional person standing on a freeway overpass waving an American flag or carrying a sign and waving at passing motorists. Is that free speech?
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