Bob CollinsAt London’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday night, Eric Clapton did something he’s never done before: he covered a Prince song. Read more →
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It’s one thing to honor Prince; it’s another to make him part of a business model, John Shipley of the Pioneer Press says.
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Golf Digest blogger Joel Beall thinks Minnesota should move on from Prince, though from his column this week, it’s not entirely clear what we should move on to, given that it’s the only identity Minnesotans have. Read more →
Rarely has the lack of whimsy and personality in the Capital City been more obvious than last evening’s display of Prince’s purple Read more →
Dave Chappelle doesn’t do many interviews. But with a three-part Netflix special, he broke his reticence to talk about Prince.
In an interview with CBS This Morning, Chappelle said his friendship with Prince had his beginnings when his sister went to a concert. Read more →
Thoughts and prayers this afternoon go out to the social media manager of Vice, who bit the bullet and posted this tweet today to promote an article. Read more →
Being a Catholic, Cecilia Latorre, of Edmonton knows it’s sacrilegious of her to set up a little nativity scene in her home featuring Prince. ‘But it’s important to me,’ she tells the CBC.
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For the first time, a passenger on board Prince’s airplane is revealing what happened the night it needed to make an emergency landing in Moline, Ill., enroute to Minneapolis from Atlanta. Read more →
A Boston restaurant is getting a little attention today for solving the growing question surrounding mens and ladies bathrooms and who should be allowed to enter which one. Read more →
Accomplishments have been hard to find so far with the Minnesota Legislature but a law benefiting the estate of Prince is chugging along despite increasing warnings that it’s going too fast and with not enough inspection. Read more →
Gene Hanson, a farmer in Edgeley, N.D., is getting some national recognition because he had some time on his hands and decided to go play in the dirt.
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You have to admire the pluck of City Pages. Who would have thought to get the dirt on Prince by talking to the people who cooked for him?
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Minnesota could make purple its official state color. It could name a new transit line the “purple line.” It could find a street somewhere and call it Prince Street.
Here’s another idea: It could better support music in public schools. Read more →
The conversations between the pilot of Prince’s private jet and air traffic controllers don’t reveal much about why the jet had to make an emergency landing in Moline, Ill., just a few days before Prince died.
But they do show the difficulty of getting a jet on the ground safely in a hurry, and the skill of pilots and controllers to accomplish the task. Read more →
‘Stop talking about the music,’ activist, author, and commentator Van Jones said on CNN last week, urging people to look past the music if they wanted to understand Prince.
And so the Los Angeles Times did in a piece looking at the singer’s religion. Read more →