Bob CollinsJazz, the uniquely American art form, is dying in Duluth in one of the most unique locations: a strip club.
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The University of Washington and Washington State University played their big rivalry game Friday, but the UW band couldn’t make it to the game. One of the the three busses carrying the band overturned on a highway on the way to the game in Pullman and the band canceled the trip. Read more →
In Frisco, Texas a wise music teacher — as if there’s any other kind — has found the perfect way to keep parents and her students on the same page: an orchestra of parents.
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Wayne Porter’s gigantic horse, made out of old railroad tie plates, has successfully (and expensively, we figure) been moved from his blacksmith shop to his sculpture field along I-90 in Montrose, S.D. That’s a 130-mile trip.
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In the last few weeks, I’ve been going through some of the 15,000+ posts I’ve written on NewsCut and finding I don’t remember writing a fair number of them. This is the luxury afforded us as we age. Everything old is new again.
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Comedian Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live apologized for his stupid jokes just before election day when he criticized former Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw for his eye patch.
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‘I’m a saver,’ Alan Dragseth says. ‘I was building up an inventory of stuff but I never thought I’d start a museum.’ So he started a museum devoted to sugar beet farming. Read more →
In Vermont, as elsewhere, women have had a difficult time getting their voices heard. So now they’re using their bodies.
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Barry Levenson, a Massachusetts native, developed a love affair with mustard, and then a Wisconsin mustard museum, thanks to Bill Buckner’s inability to pick up a baseball in the 1986 World Series. Yes, it’s complicated. Read more →
In almost 45 years in the radio business, the answer to the most famous person I ever met has always been the first famous person I ever met. Read more →
The school chief in Shorewood, Wis., has pulled the plug on this year’s fall play at the local high school. The ‘N word” in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird’ was too hot to handle, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Read more →
Congratulate someone today who has learned English as a second language. Their accomplishment is massive. Read more →
Saga Vanecek, 8, who used to call Minneapolis home, had your typical day in Sweden one day over the summer. She went to the lake, took a dip, started throwing stones to see how far they’d skip, then pulled a 1,000-year-old sword with apparent Viking ancestry out of the lake. Read more →
Mary Winchenbach gets excited when she sees ‘a moose take a turd.’ Who doesn’t, Mary? Read more →
Garrison Keillor will remain persona non grata in Vermont after a book festival where he was scheduled to appear pulled the plug on a fundraiser. Read more →