Bob Collins
There’s no chance winning the Nobel Prize for literature is going to change Bob Dylan. Read more →
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Bob Dylan probably doesn’t need the money that comes with winning a Nobel Prize and it’s a good thing. Like everything else, it doesn’t stretch as far as it once did, according to CNBC. Read more →
Will Lager
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Even if you don’t agree with the award, you’ve got to celebrate the fact that in the middle of this cesspool of a political campaign, we’re having a debate about worthy literature.
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The Star Tribune reports that a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press has received a $35,000 grant from the Knight Art Challenge of St. Paul to stage a ballet on Harriet Island during the February 2018 Winter Carnival and and the Super Bowl. Read more →
The kids in Alvin Junior High School in Texas learned the lesson we all have to learn sooner or later and made the best of it. Read more →
We’re rather eating up the opportunity to hear behind-the-scenes stories afforded by the new book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The book is published by a division of CBS, so CBS News has gotten two days of exclusive interviews out of the deal.
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Today’s Duluth News Tribune story on the death of Don Pasek, 88, is an additional reminder of what we’ve lost in the chain-store world. Locality and community identities. Pasek was the last remaining independent pharmacist in Duluth when he retired seven years ago. Independent pharmacies have been swept away by the Walgreens, Targets, and CVS’s Read more →
Moschino? More like NOschino, at least at Nordstrom. Read more →
It’s hardly a new phenomenon that people will look at a fashion and not go with their instinct. Better to fit in than to say “that’s absolutely stupid.” It’s been that way since the emperor went for a stroll in his invisible suit. Read more →
2016 has created an immense vacuum in the arts with the deaths of some of music’s most iconic individuals. The names of those who’ve died reveal the incredible breadth of artistic endeavor across the species. Read more →
Weeks after NPR decided to give up on the notion that its online audience can intelligently discuss the day’s news via comments, the New York Times, which generally has a comment section worth reading, is trying another approach to elevate the scene. Read more →
Here’s your daily dose of bittersweetness. Michael Reagan, an artist in Edmonds, Washington, could probably be making bigger bucks as an artist. But making bigger bucks isn’t his passion right now. Drawing the images of every service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan is. He got a fair amount of publicity in the last decade Read more →
That was apparently quite the stunning halftime show at the new Vikings stadium last evening when the Minnesota Orchestra played as the entertainment. Read more →
We kind of have a ‘thing’ for promotional videos for cities in Minnesota, so we’re watching a new one for Hopkins. Read more →