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Great Northern Radio Show preview: Sonny Johnson
It’s coming! The spring edition of my Great Northern Radio Show hits the stage of the Bagley High School auditorium and airwaves of Northern Community Radio this upcoming Saturday, March 9. The show airs from 5-7 p.m. and free tickets are still available by calling KAXE at 800-662-5799. Find out more about the show and…
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Great Northern Radio Show preview: Mary Bue
It’s coming! The spring edition of my Great Northern Radio Show hits the stage of the Bagley High School auditorium and airwaves of Northern Community Radio this upcoming Saturday, March 9. The show airs from 5-7 p.m. and free tickets are still available by calling KAXE at 800-662-5799. Find out more about the show and…
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Great Northern Radio Show preview: Hobo Nephews
It’s coming! The spring edition of my Great Northern Radio Show hits the stage of the Bagley High School auditorium and airwaves of Northern Community Radio this upcoming Saturday, March 9. The show airs from 5-7 p.m. and free tickets are still available by calling KAXE at 800-662-5799. Find out more about the show and…
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Breaking the mold of northern Minnesota media
This morning Northern Community Radio begins its winter/spring fundraiser. As many of you know, KAXE, KBXE, and Northern Community Internet comprise a truly unique independent public media network, one that has supported me and my writing for many years. I don’t ask for donations here at my blog, but if you are a loyal reader…
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‘Lincoln’: An ode to gradual change
This is my Sunday column for the Feb. 17, 2013 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece aired Saturday on KAXE‘s Between You and Me. The Academy Awards ceremony is tonight. ‘Lincoln”: An ode to gradual changeBy Aaron J. Brown Early in “Team of Rivals,” Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book about President…
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Hobo Nephews, Mary Bue headline Bagley ‘Great Northern’
I’m writing now for the Saturday, March 9 edition of the Great Northern Radio Show on Northern Community Radio, broadcasting live at the Bagley High School auditorium in beautiful Bagley, Minnesota. Reserve your free tickets now! We just found out we’re up against a big men’s hockey game between the University of Minnesota Gophers and…
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Thar she syncs: Accepting my e-fate
Here is my Sunday column for the Jan. 27, 2013 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. An audio version of this piece aired yesterday on Northern Community Radio’s “Between You and Me.” I offered some additional thoughts (and cool whale art) on Friday. Thar she syncs: Accepting my e-fateBy Aaron J. BrownBehold, me lads and…
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To the seas of the air; on pride, e-readers and ‘Moby Dick’
I got a Kindle Paperwhite for Christmas this year and was forced to confront a matter of pride. I had resisted jumping over to e-readers, despite their obvious popularity, instead remaining loyal the paper books I grew up with and love. If I was going to read an e-book for the first time, I wasn’t…
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Great Northern Radio Show is your holiday soundtrack
Aerial view of the stage as Earl the Cowboy saves Christmas in Bigfork Another edition of the Great Northern Radio Show hit the airwaves last Saturday, broadcast live from the Edge Center for the Arts in Bigfork. This one was titled “Christmas on Edge” and strove to combine the trappings of a holiday special with…
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Great Northern Radio Show hits the airwaves tonight
Today brings the Great Northern Radio Show holiday special, broadcast live on Northern Community Radio from the Edge Center for the Arts in Bigfork, Minnesota. The show runs from 5-7 p.m. The free tickets to the theater are reserved, but there are usually unclaimed tickets at the door if you would like to see it…
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Great Northern Radio Show to deliver holiday spirit in Bigfork
Sam Miltich, Matthew Miltich and Gary Schulte will light up the Edge. I’m in the midst of preparations for another Great Northern Radio Show this Saturday. I hope you’ll listen, and consider coming to the show. We have a small number of free tickets remaining for the show at the Edge Center in Bigfork. Call…
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The Great Northern gets front page for Bigfork show
The Grand Rapids Herald Review was very kind to the Great Northern Radio Show in Sunday’s paper. They ran our press release and put my stage-lit mug up over the mast on the front page and sprawled across the culture section. I question the effect this will have on rack sales, but I suppose that’s…
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The holiday project, light unto a dark universe
Today ends November and welcomes December, a month that, in America at least, brings a contradictory swirl of non-stop holiday and additional work duties. Have fun! Relax! Get your work done! We usually fire people before the end of the year! Don’t worry, though, we wouldn’t do that on Christmas! The topic on Saturday’s “Between…
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Celebrate Thanksgiving with the Great Northern Radio Show
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! MinnesotaBrown will slow down over the holiday weekend. Nevertheless, the doldrums of holiday radio in northern Minnesota will be restored to greatness (or something) by the Great Northern Radio Show. Our very successful Eveleth broadcast will re-air from 9-11 a.m. Thanksgiving Thursday on the Northern Community Radio network of 91.7 KAXE (89.9…
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18-pt trophy stag chef Wolfgang Buck on KAXE Saturday
Last weekend’s poor weather has put Minnesota’s 2012 deer harvest down 14 percent from last year. Now, the final weekend of rifle deer hunting is upon us. On Saturday morning, from 10 a.m. to noon, Northern Community Radio’s “Between You and Me” will talk about cooking for Thanksgiving. I chose to talk about interesting ways…