Bob CollinsImprov Everywhere had quite a challenge. Create a phony press conference and then ask silly questions when someone stepped to the microphones.
It didn’t look any more foolish than the real thing.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
This or That
Your assignment is to go search the far reaches of the Internet and find something that doesn’t leave the rest of us feeling the way we felt too often this week.
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The attack on Wednesday evening by Star Tribune gossip columnist C.J. — she never uses her real name — on KARE 11 journalist Jana Shortal because of her clothing while reporting the Wetterling story seems an indecency all its own. Read more →
We celebrate good lives. We rarely consider good deaths. In Saskatchewan, Jim Jeffery, 95, had a good death, as described by the CBC.
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We talk often in this category — The Art of the Obituary — about portraying and defining our lives outside of the jobs we hold. Nineteen year olds don’t have the big jobs that permeate many obituaries. And it didn’t matter a bit in relaying a life well lived. Not a bit. Read more →
What do you get the stepfather who has everything? Adoption papers.
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The only thing missing from an otherwise perfect day in Minnesota was another story from the official police chief of NewsCut, Kenyon’s Lee Sjolander.
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Cato Berntsen Larsen, 20, did what any friend would do when his pal dropped his phone in the outhouse. He jumped in to get it. Read more →
There are times when it seems as though the world is in flames. These are the times when we must remember that humankind occasionally stops to cheer on people who show up for the World Bog Snorkeling Championships held in the Waen Rhydd peat bog in Llanwrtyd Wells over the weekend. Read more →
Maybe being a bicyclist in our cities doesn’t have to be a life-or-death challenge at intersections. Read more →
With summer ebbing (spoiler alert: summer is ebbing), let’s live vicariously. Post your photo of your best moment of summer 2016 and the story behind it. Read more →
It it hadn’t been for schoolkids picking milkweeds, a lot of sailors wouldn’t have lived long enough to tell their stories of surviving ship sinkings in World War II.
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Not everyone deserves a microphone or an audience. And unless news organizations are willing to demand a standard of civility, they’re right to do what they are basically doing: pulling the plug on their audience.
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If the brake pedal is on the left in our cars — spoiler alert: it is — then why do we brake with our right foot?
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Maybe “Hat Trick” just wanted a better view of the Highway 53 bridge construction outside Virginia, Minn. But it was an ill-advised trip. (Spoiler: happy ending). Read more →