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Minneapolis: City of right angles and glass

Bob Collins May 4, 2011, 1:49 PM May 4, 2011

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Artist renderings of major project proposals all seem to look the same.

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‘I see your pencil neck weasel and raise you a twit’

Bob Collins May 4, 2011, 12:10 PM May 4, 2011

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Not since Garrison Keillor and Jesse Ventura went at it has the world seen a politician vs. elitist artist fray like the one developing between Rep. Matt Dean and author Neil Gaiman.

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Live: The 2,000-mile walk

Bob Collins May 4, 2011, 11:21 AM May 4, 2011

Laura Wilkins is walking to visit her mother in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She’s in Tucson.

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A blow against ‘folk Nazism’

Bob Collins April 28, 2011, 10:32 AM Apr 28, 2011

Janis Ian performs tonight in St. Paul.

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Bob Dylan: Sellout?

Bob Collins April 11, 2011, 10:52 AM Apr 11, 2011

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Bob Dylan played Ho Chi Minh City last night, and left out the peace anthems that made him famous during the Vietnam War.

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When it comes to welcoming spring, we stink

Bob Collins March 23, 2011, 12:03 PM Mar 23, 2011

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We’re snowblind today when we should be having some sort of festival to blow the whiteness clean out of our retinas.

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Does classical music help plants grow?

Bob Collins March 23, 2011, 10:07 AM Mar 23, 2011

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The 33-member Royal Philharmonic Orchestra played a three-hour concert the other day. The audience was an auditorium full of plants to test the theory that classical music helps plants grow.

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Back in St. Paul, still in Japan

Bob Collins March 16, 2011, 2:12 PM Mar 16, 2011

A Twin Cities musician plans a composition honoring the people he left behind.

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The humor of Public Radio

Bob Collins February 26, 2011, 4:50 PM Feb 26, 2011

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An MPR reporter’s tribute to the music you get when put on hold.

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A year in the life of a beard

Bob Collins February 24, 2011, 11:14 AM Feb 24, 2011

A Carleton student documents his beard.

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One moment: The balloon goodbye

Bob Collins February 23, 2011, 12:15 PM Feb 23, 2011

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We interrupt the steady drumbeat of depressing news for this message: It’s not all bad out there.

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Venus and the art of publicity

Bob Collins February 23, 2011, 9:35 AM Feb 23, 2011

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There’s always some sort of billboard mystery in the Twin Cities.

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Debate: Should CPB be funded?

Bob Collins February 17, 2011, 1:06 PM Feb 17, 2011

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As Congress and the White House seek to reduce the federal deficit, one of the key areas that has come under the microscope is funding for public broadcasting.

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