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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Arts

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Embracing winter: The ice sculptures

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 27, 2011, 2:31 PM Jan 27, 2011

The heat is on a group of artist’s in St. Paul’s Rice Park. They’ve got until 9 Saturday morning to turn the blocks of ice into works of ice art.

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Milton Rogovin, 1909-2011

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 18, 2011, 12:59 PM Jan 18, 2011

He concentrated his imagery on the poor, whom he called ‘the forgotten ones.’

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Does poetry matter? Ask Haiti

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 5, 2011, 2:34 PM Jan 5, 2011

Kwame Dawes has been traveling to Haiti since the earthquake one year ago next Wednesday. He’s turned his findings into poetry.

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Another look at Twain

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2011, 3:51 PM Jan 4, 2011
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Should Huck Finn be sanitized?

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Painting Pawlenty

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2010, 2:49 PM Dec 22, 2010
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Can a Minnesota artist paint a proper portrait of the governor? Let’s find out.

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Friday morning downer

David CazaresDavid Cazares December 3, 2010, 9:06 AM Dec 3, 2010
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Bob Collins is asking questions today at SugaRush coffee shop, 712 University Avenue in St. Paul, until around noon. Stop in to say hello. In the meantime, and in honor of his Monday Morning Rouser, we present a Friday morning downer: Bill Callahan singing “Too Many Birds” at Waterloo Records in Austin, Texas. I find Read more →

When privacy destroys a reputation

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 20, 2010, 7:41 AM Nov 20, 2010
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Restrictions in the name of privacy have made it open season on Michael Larsen’s reputation.

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Things Tina Fey can’t say

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 16, 2010, 12:58 PM Nov 16, 2010
3

Cool. Yet another public broadcasting controversy.

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Does life imitate politics?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 2, 2010, 11:31 AM Nov 2, 2010
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What’s the best politics movie ever made?

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Time traveler in a Chaplin film?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2010, 3:14 PM Oct 28, 2010
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Is a person appearing to talk on a cellphone in a Chaplin film from the future?

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Scientists and engineers who dance

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 25, 2010, 11:47 AM Oct 25, 2010
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A video of a ‘flash mob’ at the U of M.

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The last recording?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2010, 3:44 PM Oct 20, 2010
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This may be one of the last recordings of rapper Mike Larsen.

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Music at the speed of light

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 19, 2010, 11:19 AM Oct 19, 2010
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The BBC reports today that a violinist has broken the record for the fastest playing of Flight of the Bumblebee.

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Perfectly Minnesota: Boundary Waters video

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 14, 2010, 11:11 AM Oct 14, 2010
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Why the Minnesota sensibility is a proper one.

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Do you know this man?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2010, 1:48 PM Oct 6, 2010
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An astronaut sues Dido over an album cover.

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