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Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture · Education

After 20 years, time’s up for old exhibits at Children’s Museum

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 5, 2016, 3:59 PM Aug 5, 2016
4

Can an exhibit at a museum be considered iconic? Perhaps it depends on how many kids grew up crawling over, under, and around it.

Using that definition of questionable science, three exhibits at Minnesota’s Children’s Museum, qualify as iconic. Read more →

Arts & Culture

The American freak show

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 3, 2016, 10:37 AM Aug 3, 2016
10

Particularly in an election year, we’re always looking for things that define who we are.

It’s an effort doomed to failure from the start — we can’t be defined — but we persist anyway. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Politics

Cooler heads defuse Pokemon showdown in Winona

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 2, 2016, 6:33 AM Aug 2, 2016
12

The City Council last night voted not to ban the game-playing in city parks, specifically around the veteran’s memorial next to a playground and band shell in the city. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Winona tests the freedom to play Pokemon

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2016, 7:40 AM Aug 1, 2016
94

People of Winona: Return to your lawns before someone gets hurt. The City Council in Winona is voting tonight to ban Pokemon playing in the city’s veteran’s park, which was built by selling pavers honoring veterans. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Adios, Car Talk

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2016, 10:28 AM Jul 27, 2016
46

The hit public radio show that lived longer than one of its hosts will be no more after next year, Current.org, the public media newspaper reports. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Art to reduce stress sparks religious debate in Delano

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2016, 8:43 AM Jul 27, 2016
23

An artist’s proposal to build a labyrinth in Delano as part of a public arts project is on hold for now after city leaders raised concern that it has religious overtones. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Obits: A clown passes on

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 25, 2016, 7:24 AM Jul 25, 2016
2

We don’t learn a lot about Dorothy Jetta Mueller in the paragraph, but we learn enough.
Read more →

Arts & Culture

R.I.P., VCR

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 21, 2016, 1:18 PM Jul 21, 2016
31

We come here today to bury the VCR and to announce the breaking news that VCRs are still being manufactured.

But only for another 10 days. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Politics

In Northfield, ‘noise’ is the sound of money

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2016, 7:24 AM Jul 20, 2016
3

One person’s noise is another person’s music and that fact has the politicians and police in Northfield a bit stuck on how residents and bar/restaurants can get along. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Pokemon: Nothing gets people so worked up like others having fun

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 19, 2016, 10:58 AM Jul 19, 2016
28

People of all ages, economic, and social spheres, and diverse backgrounds are ending up at the same places, interacting in whatever way Pokemon Go allows, helping each other along the way, and becoming friends.

What exactly is bad about that? Read more →

Arts & Culture · Sports

A Chance the Rapper tribute to Ali

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 14, 2016, 10:45 AM Jul 14, 2016
3

It’s usually a pretty beautiful moment when arts & culture and the world of sports collide.

Last night at ESPN’s ESPY awards, Chance the Rapper proved it again with the concluding moment: a tribute to Muhammad Ali. Read more →

Arts & Culture

An urban lighthouse to return to St. Paul

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 13, 2016, 9:36 AM Jul 13, 2016
7

There’s no real reason for the ‘1st’ sign other than its historical significance. First National Bank was absorbed into a series of mergers years ago. But we tend to fall in love with these sorts of things over time. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Viking ship headed to Duluth hits bureaucratic shoals

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 12, 2016, 1:59 PM Jul 12, 2016
20

It costs a ship $400 an hour for a pilot, and that’s why the Norwegian Viking Ship, Draken Harald Hårfagre, might not make it to Duluth’s Tall Ships Challenge 2016.
Read more →

Arts & Culture · Crime and Justice

On day of darkness, Snoop Dogg et al. provide a ray of light

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 8, 2016, 1:46 PM Jul 8, 2016
10

In Los Angeles today, men of color held a march to protest recent police killings and ‘reintroduce’ the community to the police. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Politics

Couple writes anti-Trump book, loses job

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 7, 2016, 2:31 PM Jul 7, 2016
9

From the sound of things, writers Brad and Amy Herzog had a pretty good thing going for nearly two decades, traveling the country and writing a blog as spokespeople for the RV Industry Association. Then they wrote a book critical of Donald Trump. Read more →

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