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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Arts

Laughing when you want to cry

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 26, 2012, 11:04 AM Oct 26, 2012
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Tig Notaro’s now-famous stand-up routine after she found out she has cancer, forces us to consider how we press on through the times.

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The Twitter concerto

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2012, 1:44 PM Oct 24, 2012
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This might be one of the prettiest tweets ever.

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Flashing musicians

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 17, 2012, 1:15 PM Oct 17, 2012
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If the locked out Minnesota Orchestra musicians are looking for a way to generate a little public support and interest, two words: flash mob.

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You are editor: Taking sides at a concert

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 15, 2012, 4:09 PM Oct 15, 2012
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Locked-out musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra are holding a concert. If journalists attend, are they taking sides?

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A son’s musical gift

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 9, 2012, 3:43 PM Oct 9, 2012

Spencer Wirth-Davis, aka Big Cats, debuts a musical project inspired by his mother, who died after a battle with ovarian cancer.

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In the middle of a musical labor dispute

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 5, 2012, 12:19 PM Oct 5, 2012

You probably won’t be seeing much of the man who is, for many people, the public face of the Minnesota Orchestra.

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Art or vandalism?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 1, 2012, 1:03 PM Oct 1, 2012

This branded film certainly romanticizes the world of the graffiti artist.

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Kids playing music

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 20, 2012, 2:53 PM Sep 20, 2012

A neat video produced by the Walker West Music Academy, which provides today’s reassurance that, no, all the kids did not spend the summer indoors playing video games.

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Randy on racism

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 10:58 AM Sep 18, 2012
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Songwriter Randy Newman is calling out what he sees as racism in the presidential campaign.

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Kennedy honorees announced

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 1:41 PM Sep 12, 2012
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Buddy Guy is in. Finally.

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Dispatches from Deliverance

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2012, 11:52 AM Aug 16, 2012
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When is a movie not ‘just a movie?’

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End of the line for George Jones

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2012, 2:54 PM Aug 14, 2012

Who’s going to fill George Jones’ shoes?

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The art of the impossible

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 13, 2012, 2:08 PM Aug 13, 2012

George Dennehy, born with no arms, can play the guitar with his feet.

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David Rakoff’s defense of pessimism

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 10, 2012, 10:18 AM Aug 10, 2012

There wasn’t much about him that wasn’t funny, even the timing of the tumor that eventually killed him, which was discovered while he was writing a book defending pessimism and melancholoy, which made him my kind of guy.

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Remembering Mitch Hedberg

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 8, 2012, 2:32 PM Aug 8, 2012

It’s been seven years since Mitch Hedberg died. He may be the (intentionally) funniest person ever to come out of Saint Paul, Minnesota, until cocaine and heroin did him in. He was only 37.

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