The power of self esteem is regularly and increasingly mocked in U.S. culture, perhaps one of the reasons the arts has an increasingly difficult time gaining a bigger foothold in the education system. Maybe Kenya knows something we should. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Arts and Culture
Last of the small-town radio stations, claim: rate shock for health care is good, diversity and the Walker Art Center audience, when winter comes and you’re homeless, and the great Minnesota hunting ammunition shortage of 2013. Read more →
Back in my day, it was J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” that got some parents all atwitter over the “pornography” available in the local school library. Today, it’s Rainbow Rowell’s “Eleanor & Park,” that has stirred a couple of Anoka County parents enough to earn Rowell a disinvite from the county’s school and library Read more →
“Older” woman walks into a drum shop and shows the kids how it’s done. Who is she? Read more →
The Wrenshall girls basketball team mirrors the experience of so many small towns in Minnesota, where diminishing populations challenge the future of high school sports. Read more →