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Brown on the Air: CAMPFIRES!
Tune in to 91.7 KAXE‘s weekly call-in and music program “Between You and Me” Saturday morning. This week’s topic is “campfires,” a hot one — HOT, GET IT! Guest hosts Michael Goldberg and Gail Otteson will lead a conversation that will explore every corner of campfire traditions and stories. Like Michael and Gail, I’m a…
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Paul Bunyan flash mob, a folk tale
KAXE-Northern Community Radio is expanding, forming a new affiliated station in Bemidji called KBXE. Northern Community Radio is more than radio; it’s internet, news and original programming across the northern Minnesota spectrum. Anyway, to bring attention to the upcoming changes organizers staged a “Paul Bunyan flash mob,” in honor of Bemidji’s famed Paul Bunyan and…
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Brown on the Air: CONCERTS AGAIN
Tune in tomorrow morning from 10 a.m. to noon for the weekly call-in and music sensation “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE. This week’s topic is “outdoor concerts” or some approximation of that, in advance of Saturday afternoon’s Mississippi River Festival at the KAXE Rotary Tent along the Mighty Miss. I’ll be joining the…
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Brown on the Air: WEDDINGS!
Tune in tomorrow morning for “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE where I’ll join host Heidi Holtan and the people of northern Minnesota (and beyond) in analyzing the weekly topic of “weddings.” It’s summer, so weddings are a big deal. Marriages are all about winter — survival, scarce resources, eating bark — but weddings…
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COLUMN: Bugs of the Revolution
This is my Sunday column for the July 4, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece was broadcast with full dramatic presentation on the July 4, 2009 edition of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE. The project is known in shorthand as “Bug Congress,” among the strangest things I’ve…
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Brown on the Air: LAWN MOWING!
Tomorrow on 91.7 KAXE‘s weekly call-in and music program “Between You and Me” I’ll be joining the show’s rotating topic of lawn mowing, with a creative piece that describes — in metaphoric bliss — the exact procedure of how my lawn is mowed each week. Is there a moral? Oh, I think you know there…
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Show some "sense," support KAXE tonight!
If you’re reading the internet on Saturday night you are, like me, not normal. Or perhaps we are normal in our common modern social affliction. Regardless, you are a person who appreciates the media, especially good media. KAXE is great media — radio, for sure, but also online news and information and content on demand.…
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Brown on the Air: THE SIXTH SENSE
Tune in tomorrow for the Saturday morning radio spectacular “Between You and Me” on northern Minnesota’s 91.7 KAXE. The show airs from 10 a.m. to noon and each week deals with a new topic for host Heidi Holtan, regular contributors like me, and callers to explore through stories and music. This week we talk about…
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Brown on the Air: STATE PARKS
My weekly contribution to “Between You and Me,” KAXE‘s weekly Saturday morning call-in and music show joins this episode’s theme of “State Parks.” What better place to talk about state parks than northern Minnesota, where the really good parks are located? I jump in the fray with the perspective of a northern Minnesotan who lives…
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Brown on the Air: TATTOOS!
What would a guy like me say if he were assigned to write an essay about tattoos? As I write this (for advance posting, mind you; in real time I am in the Chicago suburbs attending a conference about online education assessment improvement) I am wearing khaki pants and a soft, very nice cotton t-shirt…
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Brown on the Air: SURVIVAL!
This Saturday morning’s topic on “Between You and Me,” the KAXE call-in and music program lighting up the northern half of the best state ever, is “survival.” Host and producer Heidi Holtan and others will be asking for stories of survival, thoughts on survival and its many meanings. I’ll chime in with my usual thematic…
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Brown on the Air: BICYCLES
Tune in to Saturday morning’s “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE for more fun than you can fit in a flowered basket on a set of handlebars. I’ll be joining in with an essay to suit the week’s topic: bicycles. Every week the show explores a usually relevant, sometimes random subject and allows the…
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Brown on the Air: DIET & EXERCISE
Tune in Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon to hear my contribution to “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE. “Between You and Me” features a new topic each week and features the voices of northern Minnesota through phone calls, music and commentaries by folks like me. This week’s topic is diet and exercise. I’ll…
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Brown on the Air: ORIGINALITY!
Here’s a first: a show about originality. This Saturday morning’s edition of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE explores the concept of “what makes something original?” just in time for the Iron Range Original Music Association‘s big show coming up. I’ll be joining the fray with a tired old essay, worn down by the…
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Brown on the Air: TEETH!
Damn if I didn’t just write and record an essay about teeth. Guy writes and records a thing like that, he sure as hell hopes someone listens to it. That’s where you come in. The topic of this week’s edition of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE is teeth. I’ll be joining the fray…