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Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

1,000 Words: Tolerance and respect

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 27, 2018, 8:26 AM Jun 27, 2018
13

In a stand against bigotry, rabbis and imams rode bikes together in Berlin. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Singing concessions? More, please

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 27, 2018, 7:01 AM Jun 27, 2018
3

Can we please let this aspect of last night catch on? Politicians should always concede by playing Springsteen.
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Arts & Culture

Woolworth’s building reborn in downtown St. Paul

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 26, 2018, 2:17 PM Jun 26, 2018
32

Navigating the new with the old is a design challenge but the newest addition to the St. Paul streetscape has faithfully lived up to it. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Grumpy’s bar goes down swinging

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 26, 2018, 10:55 AM Jun 26, 2018
75

In a Facebook post today, Grumpy’s blamed food trucks, property taxes, old buildings and people from the suburbs.. Read more →

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Rosalie Vascellaro, one half of ‘The Grannies’, dies at 94.

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 26, 2018, 10:13 AM Jun 26, 2018
0

Rosalie Vascellaro’s and Doris Rosen’s ongoing bit on WCCO a few years ago was the sort of thing that made you want to call your mom. Read more →

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Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name stripped from children’s literary award

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 25, 2018, 9:32 AM Jun 25, 2018
6

The Washington Post says a library association voted Saturday to remove her name because of this passage in the opening chapter of “Little House on the Prairie.” Read more →

Arts & Culture

The world’s ugliest dog is one of us

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 25, 2018, 9:01 AM Jun 25, 2018
4

Who’s an ugly dog? Not you, Zsa Zsa. No, you aren’t. Oh, no, you aren’t.
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Driving in cars, singing Beatles songs, and waiting for this moment to arrive

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2018, 3:13 PM Jun 22, 2018
12

Let’s end the week on a nice note. Literally. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Are music festivals running out of steam?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2018, 1:31 PM Jun 22, 2018
9

In the first decade of this century, music festivals exploded. Announce a date and an outdoor venue, throw some artists in and, voila! Success. Those days are over. Read more →

Arts & Culture · War

Auschwitz, in color

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2018, 11:03 AM Jun 22, 2018
20

There was nothing like the Holocaust, which is why a project that made its debut this month on the internet is so important.
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Arts & Culture · Science · Weather

It’s the longest day of the year. Let’s burn a piano

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 21, 2018, 10:28 AM Jun 21, 2018
10

The summer solstice provides us with another opportunity to consider the half-full/half-empty nature of the cosmos. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Rochester man proves T-shirts are not trivial

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 18, 2018, 1:21 PM Jun 18, 2018
2

Today marks the 365th consecutive day that John Sievers has worn a different T-shirt, capping his year-long effort to draw attention to his community. Read more →

Arts & Culture

1,000 Words: Half full or half empty?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 15, 2018, 1:09 PM Jun 15, 2018
29

If there are only two blogs, have you finished second or finished last?

Arts & Culture

Target pulls ‘baby daddy’ card

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 14, 2018, 8:39 AM Jun 14, 2018
12

Takeisha Saunders of Dallas wants you to understand what the term ‘baby daddy’ refers to in her culture, because the people who do the buying for Target don’t.
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Arts & Culture · Education

Greenbush, Minn.? That’s a robot town

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 13, 2018, 11:27 AM Jun 13, 2018
8

What if someone paid attention to the brainpower — in this case the high school robotics competition and its ability to capture the hearts of a small town? Someone has. In Greenbush, Minn., populationn 719.
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