Bob CollinsBrian Rosenberg announced today he’s leaving as president of Macalester College a year from now. Over the next year, there will likely be well considered assessments of Rosenberg’s contributions to the local culture.
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Arts & Culture
The difference between my generation and Tyra Gibeau’s is that when I was in high school, few people thought the cool kids were the ‘band kids.’ That’s all changed now and all for the good.
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There’s nothing but irony in the BBC’s video about a Minneapolis kid who has become a sensation in China because people there don’t like to say what they really think. Read more →
‘We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside. He took a hammer to the windshield,’ Michael Rich, a pediatrician and director of the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital. Read more →
You would think the most famous person in Vining would be Karen Nyberg, who had two missions aboard the International Space Station.
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One reason the Legacy Amendment is important: You can’t make money anymore being local. There aren’t enough local businesses left to fund it.
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It’s the sort of thing that could have put Park Rapids on the map, but the Planning Commission learned this week that artist and developer Arch Simonson has pulled the plug on the project, basically because people love gigantic loons so much they could get hit by a car.
Beer is a religion in these parts so maybe Del Hall, of the Cincinnati Halls, is onto something. Read more →
There’s not much a community can do with abandoned, concrete silos, the kind that dot Minneapolis’ Hiawatha Avenue and the Prospect Park area. Or is there?
Mankato has the right idea. An artist is going to treat them like the canvas they are and make art. Read more →
Dmitri Moua, 16, just wanted to dance but it took him making a federal case out of it to get him to try out for a girls competitive high school dance team in Roseville. There are no boys teams and the Minnesota State High School League dictates the rules and said “no” to Moua and Zachary Greenwald, a dancer in Hopkins. Read more →
There is, perhaps, a debate to be had on the matter of artistic expression and racist symbols in history, but it’s inarguable that if a school district puts on a play featuring students in KKK robes, it should see the backlash coming from miles away. A Sioux Falls school didn’t. Read more →
Jana Shortal, of KARE 11, is already a legend in these parts but she got a big boost on a national level today when the YouTube channel, Great Big Story, called attention to her style.
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More than a half million people sent photos of their babies in this year’s bid to be the Gerber baby.
Only one made it. Read more →
Jonah Larson, 11, of La Crosse, Wis., has all the orders he can handle now that the La Crosse Tribune made him an international star because of his love of crocheting. Read more →
We’re more than a little interested in whether the unnamed person in the Robbinsdale Cooper High School Class of ’71 ever amounted to anything now that she’s come forward with her overdue copy of Poetry and the Age. Read more →