Bob Collins
The image of Jesus has been seen in potato chips, banana peels, french toast and now the flames of Fargo. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Arts & Culture
A tweet of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s skit during the MinnPost fundraiser last week raced around the InterTubes, but, taken on a smartphone from the audience, the audio was difficult to hear.
MinnPost has now posted a produced version of the bit. Read more →
Eleven years after a history professor asked that the statue be removed, Winona State University has done so, moving it to an indoor location. Read more →
There haven’t been many cases of school music programs surviving cutbacks, despite the pleas from parents and educators that there’s learning value in the arts.
But the music program in Laporte, Minn., will play on. Read more →
It’s not popular with a lot of people, I suppose, to point out that teachers — and I will insist that in particular, third grade teachers — are angels on earth. But they are. Teachers put pieces of themselves in their students and then send them off to the world. Read more →
In the digital age, the goal is not so much to experience the art as it is to document that you were there. Read more →
Brenten Bartels and Troian Loken are four months into their work on their prom outfits. So far, they’ve used 125 rolls of duct tape. Read more →
In a perfect world, Michelle McNamara, the University of Minnesota journalism grad, would be alive today to see the perp walk man may do in California. She lived determined to see it, she committed the last years of her life to making it happen. Read more →
Wayne Porter, a blacksmith, says he didn’t plan on building a horse when he started the project; it was supposed to be a goat playing a saxophone. But the engineering required for musically-gifted goats turned the project into a horse instead. Read more →
It was just another day at Stillwater Area High School. Come in. Sit down. Get turned down for prom by a Hollywood star. Read more →
Personality, comedy, and the buttoned-down world of serious public radio were never really friends until Kasell proved you could be both a serious news person and funny. Read more →
Things are quiet — too quiet — in the schools of Laporte, Minn., (pop. 114). Read more →
The book was born from the work of a dozen women who had met at a women’s liberation conference at Emmanuel College in 1969, the Boston Globe’s Stephanie Ebbert writes today. It began as a 35 cent pamphlet but became one of the most influential books of the century.
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If there’s one TV show in history that has not held up well over the years, it’s ‘All in the Family’, perhaps the most groundbreaking television show of my generation. It, of course, confronted things — racism, for example — that TV steadfastly avoided.
There hasn’t been anything like it on TV since, really. Read more →
It took a newspaper article to let freedom ring at Minneapolis City Hall on Wednesday, the anniversary of the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read more →