Can an exhibit at a museum be considered iconic? Perhaps it depends on how many kids grew up crawling over, under, and around it.
Using that definition of questionable science, three exhibits at Minnesota’s Children’s Museum, qualify as iconic. Read more →
Particularly in an election year, we’re always looking for things that define who we are.
It’s an effort doomed to failure from the start — we can’t be defined — but we persist anyway. Read more →
The City Council last night voted not to ban the game-playing in city parks, specifically around the veteran’s memorial next to a playground and band shell in the city. Read more →
People of Winona: Return to your lawns before someone gets hurt. The City Council in Winona is voting tonight to ban Pokemon playing in the city’s veteran’s park, which was built by selling pavers honoring veterans. Read more →
The hit public radio show that lived longer than one of its hosts will be no more after next year, Current.org, the public media newspaper reports. Read more →
An artist’s proposal to build a labyrinth in Delano as part of a public arts project is on hold for now after city leaders raised concern that it has religious overtones. Read more →
We don’t learn a lot about Dorothy Jetta Mueller in the paragraph, but we learn enough.
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We come here today to bury the VCR and to announce the breaking news that VCRs are still being manufactured.
But only for another 10 days. Read more →
One person’s noise is another person’s music and that fact has the politicians and police in Northfield a bit stuck on how residents and bar/restaurants can get along. Read more →
People of all ages, economic, and social spheres, and diverse backgrounds are ending up at the same places, interacting in whatever way Pokemon Go allows, helping each other along the way, and becoming friends.
What exactly is bad about that? Read more →
It’s usually a pretty beautiful moment when arts & culture and the world of sports collide.
Last night at ESPN’s ESPY awards, Chance the Rapper proved it again with the concluding moment: a tribute to Muhammad Ali. Read more →
There’s no real reason for the ‘1st’ sign other than its historical significance. First National Bank was absorbed into a series of mergers years ago. But we tend to fall in love with these sorts of things over time. Read more →
It costs a ship $400 an hour for a pilot, and that’s why the Norwegian Viking Ship, Draken Harald Hårfagre, might not make it to Duluth’s Tall Ships Challenge 2016.
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In Los Angeles today, men of color held a march to protest recent police killings and ‘reintroduce’ the community to the police. Read more →
From the sound of things, writers Brad and Amy Herzog had a pretty good thing going for nearly two decades, traveling the country and writing a blog as spokespeople for the RV Industry Association. Then they wrote a book critical of Donald Trump. Read more →
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