Bob Collins
Looking back now, it should have been obvious that Claas Relotius was ginning up his stories for the German magazine Der Spiegel, stories for which he won award after award until he was fired on Wednesday.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Arts & Culture
We suppose it says something about the state of men that one of the men who made Naomi Fry’s list of good men in 2018 isn’t a man at all: it’s a thing of some sort. Read more →
KSTP reports a neighborhood group in Prospect Park has filed suit against a developer because a building that would be constructed would limit their view of and from the Prospect Park Water Tower, a.k.a. ‘the witch’s hat tower.’ Read more →
Who knew there was a pent-up demand for thumb-wrestling in Winona? River City Wrestling and Island City Brewing Company teamed up for the first annual thumb wrestling championship in the city on Saturday, known as the Thumbs Up Throw Down.
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Someone has lifted Baby Jesus from a nativity scene that’s been on display in St. Cloud since the end of World War II. Read more →
There’s nothing we like better than a good, old neighborly feud that results in an art installation. And by “art installation,” we mean a large sculpture of a hand with its middle finger extended. Read more →
Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner started the festival in his hometown four years ago. But summer music festivals are becoming musical tap rooms — there are too many of them now for even the good ones to survive. Read more →
Nothing can save a journalism career like a little attribution. And yet, every now and again, we hear the stories of journalists who lift the work of other journalists and pass it as their own.
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We are in the time of year when we organize annual lists of top stories. Time today issued its list of the 100 best photos of 2018. MPR News photojournalist Evan Frost made the impressive cut with this one. If you don’t know the story of the raccoon, we welcome you from your slumber. It’s Read more →
If you’ve never lived in small-town America, you’ve missed heroes at work — the people who got up before dawn and went into a tiny shack somewhere, read the school-lunch menus, the lost and found items, spinning some platters, and making people feel as if they’re listening to a neighbor, because they are. Read more →
It was a year ago that the Christmas season delivered a big present to Guilherme Assunção, who was filmed singing a Christmas carol while he worked in a grocery store in Massachusetts.
Whatever happened to him?
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It seemed like a nice little song at one time until more men got educated about things like consent. Now, it’s just creepy. Read more →
‘(We) made a vow to never pass up a photobooth,’ Betz Petersen tells KARE. ‘Like, as long as we were dating, it was just never pass up a photo booth.’ Read more →
Rob Summerbell has had a goal in life: trying to get you not to take life so seriously. Read more →
A performance by the Theater of Public Policy was shut down this month by Enbridge pipeline opponents. Both sides debated the appropriateness of silencing voices, with dueling op-eds in the Star Tribune. Read more →