On its 2,000 mile length, the Mississippi River has only one live theater, at least it did until Grand Rapids fell out of love with the Grand Rapids Showboat. The city is swapping land with the Blandin Paper Company so the showboat lost its lease at Syndicate Park.
But you know how theater people are.
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It’s a cultural and political Rorschach test: When you look at the face of the actor Mandy Patinkin, whom do you see? Saul Berenson from “Homeland,” or Inigo Montoya from “The Princess Bride”? Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has been quoting the youthful Montoya on the campaign trail. Now the grown-up Saul has begun to object. Read more →
We are only allowed so many memorable moments in our relationship with the stuff that comes out of a radio, and there can only be one at the top of the list. Read more →
The deep budget cuts in the University of Wisconsin system have hit the band kids. It’s always the band kids. Read more →
At this time of the year, we pause for an annual tradition to bow our heads and consider what on earth is wrong with people who eat lutefisk? Read more →
The predictions that the This American Life spin-off would focus on the case of Bowe Bergdahl were correct. This year’s podcast, the first episode of which was posted overnight, shifts from ‘who did it’ to ‘why did he do it?’
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She doesn’t have the visibility in this neck of the woods as other public radio staples like Keillor or the Car Talk guys, but another pioneer of public radio — Diane Rehm — is about to call it quits. Read more →
Allstate is the latest company to feature same-sex marriage and parenting as part of its advertising strategy. Read more →
A blistering essay from the ex-wife of Scott Weiland on Monday was aimed straight at the heart of the music culture, music critics and fans who celebrate their drugged and inebriated heroes.
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A Navy vet who claims to be the first American to swim the entire length of the Mississippi River is wrong, a Minnesota man insists.
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In Kenyon, Minn., when a cop says ‘show me your hands,’ he wants to hear a story.
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This’ll teach former presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis to share a favorite recipe, let alone give out his home address. Read more →
Here’s the Saturday Night Live skit that we talked about on The Current’s Morning Show this morning. Read more →
The Washington Post says there’s gnashing of teeth at NPR because of a problem that’s been developing since it started on Feb. 26, 1970 — people are aging.
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Next week, NewsCut will observe its eighth birthday and I can’t think of a worse week for defining who we are as a people by the news we make.
So here. Take a break from it. Read more →
Bob Collins
Eric Ringham