Remember when people made fun of foreign tourists for constantly viewing the world through their video cameras?
This tweet from a Christian pop duo aboard a Southwest Airlines flight today proves — again — that those tourists were ahead of their time. Read more →
The venerable Boston Symphony Orchestra has acknowledged that young people can’t sit through a concert without being connected to their iPads. Read more →
The giant snow sculpture in New Brighton has been completed. The Bartz Brothers build a sculpture on their front yard every winter. It looked like this a couple of days ago. The brothers invited people to guess what it would be. If you guessed “octopus” you made a good guess. People who visit this year’s Read more →
When should someone abandon the job he’s paid to do — documenting events, in this case — and put the camera down to pitch in to help? Read more →
I don’t really know where to begin in assessing this obituary of a woman in North Carolina who died last month at 94. There’s a little bit in there about the life of Wilma Black, but it seems much more aimed at her son.
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Art, especially art from wood, isn’t always meant to be forever.
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A gull, native to the Arctic, makes a mysterious appearance in Duluth and fans migrate to the the city to watch it. Read more →
Roger Hanson, the Big Lake, Minn., man who builds giant ice towers, is having a bit of a time in his second season in Superior, Wisc.
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Seinfeld fairly nails it when he notes that when the ’63 Stingray came out, America did things without having a reason to do it and a knowledge how.
That was back in the day when it could also have an occasional chuckle.
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It’s not every day that a Vatican entity longs for more evil in the world. Read more →
The more pages I read in Mary Norris’ book (Mary would insist I add an ‘s’ to that, but I refuse, in deference to the Taylor sisters), the more I want to ask the people who made up all of these rules of our language one question: Who hurt you? Read more →
It’s hard to imagine anyone will still want to be president once the new season of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee debuts. Read more →
We are required by law, apparently, to throw some Star Wars content at you.
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Ouch. How badly do you want to see Adele when she kicks off her tour this summer in St. Paul? On StubHub this morning, asking prices were starting at about $550 and running to $9,000. Each. Read more →
Photographer Arthur Nazaryan documents life in this photo essay. Read more →
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