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Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture · Education

‘The Rock’ can’t make Stillwater’s prom

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 20, 2018, 1:07 PM Apr 20, 2018
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It was just another day at Stillwater Area High School. Come in. Sit down. Get turned down for prom by a Hollywood star. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Carl Kasell, dead at 84

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 17, 2018, 3:11 PM Apr 17, 2018
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Personality, comedy, and the buttoned-down world of serious public radio were never really friends until Kasell proved you could be both a serious news person and funny. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Education

Another Minnesota school district stops the music

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 17, 2018, 9:15 AM Apr 17, 2018
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Things are quiet — too quiet — in the schools of Laporte, Minn., (pop. 114). Read more →

Arts & Culture · Health

The end is nigh for ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 6, 2018, 10:45 AM Apr 6, 2018
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The book was born from the work of a dozen women who had met at a women’s liberation conference at Emmanuel College in 1969, the Boston Globe’s Stephanie Ebbert writes today. It began as a 35 cent pamphlet but became one of the most influential books of the century.
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Arts & Culture

Is ‘Roseanne’ the conservatives’ ‘All in the Family’?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2018, 11:50 AM Apr 5, 2018
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If there’s one TV show in history that has not held up well over the years, it’s ‘All in the Family’, perhaps the most groundbreaking television show of my generation. It, of course, confronted things — racism, for example — that TV steadfastly avoided.

There hasn’t been anything like it on TV since, really. Read more →

Arts & Culture

In Minneapolis, the bells almost didn’t toll for Dr. King

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2018, 8:48 AM Apr 5, 2018
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It took a newspaper article to let freedom ring at Minneapolis City Hall on Wednesday, the anniversary of the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read more →

Arts & Culture

The singing grocery store worker gets his big break

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 3, 2018, 2:02 PM Apr 3, 2018
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Guilherme Assuncao became something of a big deal at the grocery store where he works in Watertown, Mass., in December, when he agreed to stand in for a sound check in advance of a concert the store was hosting the next day.

Who knew ‘just some guy’ in a grocery store could sing? Read more →

Arts & Culture · Health

Singing Mayo docs meet Ellen

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 3, 2018, 12:48 PM Apr 3, 2018
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In the buttoned-down world of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Elvis Francois and William Robinson are finally getting the payoff from their years of studying and the rigorous and exhausting pace of being orthopedic surgery residents: they got to meet Ellen. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Live Nation and Ticketmaster rule with an iron fist in music monopoly

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 2, 2018, 7:10 AM Apr 2, 2018
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The Justice Department claimed reduced ticket service fees, even lower ticket prices, might result from a merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation. Fat chance, and eight years later, it’s been exactly what music fans and several venues expected Read more →

Arts & Culture · People doing good

Singer performs home concert for ill Mpls man

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 27, 2018, 12:34 PM Mar 27, 2018
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Singer Andy Grammer and his band, which is playing at the Music Hall tonight, had a performance to make before his concert in Minneapolis: the home of a fan with colon cancer who was too sick to make it to the show.

The show came to him yesterday. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Education

The world’s music man dead at 78

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2018, 12:41 PM Mar 26, 2018
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Jose Antonio Abreu, who took the kids from Venezuela’s shanty towns and taught them how to be world-class musicians, changed kids’ lives. He died on Saturday. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Mr. Rogers’ return

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2018, 4:59 PM Mar 20, 2018
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This would have been Mr. Rogers’ 90th birthday if he hadn’t died and left us all to fend for ourselves. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Sports

At basketball tournament, the National Anthem means more in Lakota

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2018, 9:33 AM Mar 20, 2018
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At the South Dakota Boys Class A Basketball Tournament in Rapid City, S.D., on Friday night, Steven Wilson had the honor of singing the National Anthem. And those in attendance had the honor of hearing it.

He sang in the Lakota language.
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Arts & Culture

The ‘keyboard cat’ is dead

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2018, 8:30 AM Mar 20, 2018
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The cat that did as much as any feline to usher in the era of cat videos on YouTube has expired. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Newspaper owners are coming for your democracy

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 16, 2018, 12:09 PM Mar 16, 2018
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These are tough times for the newspaper industry, tougher times for people who make their living as ink-stained wretches, and it’s no picnic for readers either when the newspaper owners talk to us as if we’re stupid on those occasions when they talk to their customers at all. Read more →

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