Gwen Ifill co-anchors one of the smartest news programs in America that probably isn’t as well watched as it should be, but for those who value a calm and intelligent discussions about the day’s issue, she was a national treasure.
She died today at 61. Read more →
At first, it seemed like a mistake on Saturday’s (and Sunday’s) obituary page in the Star Tribune.
Two people, same picture. Some mistake. Read more →
Until the secret was revealed on Saturday, nobody knew who was behind perhaps the most popular feature in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In revealing it, we also learned that it is on borrowed time. Read more →
Like any 4th grade boy, Jalue Dorje enjoys soccer, swimming and Pokemon cards. But unlike most 9-year-olds, he is believed to be — and confirmed by the Dalai Lama himself — the reincarnation of an eminent senior lama who died nine years ago. Read more →
The best way to understand Dylan’s silence is to understand Sartre’s concept of ‘bad faith.’ Read more →
We have a little more information to share with you today on yesterday’s top story where police in Portland, Maine arrested a tree while cross a street. Asher Woodworth said he wanted you to rethink your expectations. Read more →
It might be a bit more difficult to be a good Catholic if you’ve dreamed of having your cremated remains scattered to the wind in some idyllic location. Read more →
Perhaps we’re going to have to go back and listen to more of Bob Dylan’s music because we think we might have done it wrong the first time around. Read more →
I’m filling in for Tom Weber at 11 a.m. today on MPR News (91.1 in the Twin Cities). Here are a couple of links I’ll be referring to during the broadcast on obituaries. This is the post I wrote about Stuart Schumacher and his wife, Melissa, who started an effort to help people write obituaries Read more →
No pressure, Boundary Waters, but the New York Times this afternoon is telling the nation you’re the cure for the political cesspool gripping the nation right now.
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The latest New York Times’ op-doc features Yankovic and The Gregory Brothers teaming up to try to make us feel better, just as the dance band on the Titanic did. Read more →
In preparation for Monday’s show on the art and culture of obituaries, I recommend today another example of a finely written obit that appeared in today’s Star Tribune. Read more →
Bloomberg Politics wins the Internet today for this video reassuring us — we think — that the coming election is not rigged.
One additional point it makes, however, is that it is, just not the way you think it is. Read more →
It’s gratifying to see some of the real geniuses of Minnesota Public Radio getting some attention in The Current’s just released behind-the-scenes video. Read more →
Might we suggest you take a break from the noise of news and spend 24 minutes watching the story of Joseph Feingold, who heard a classical radio station ask for used instruments and donated his.
He had played it as youngster in a Siberian labor camp, his mother and his youngest brother were both killed at Treblinka. Read more →
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