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Brown on the Air: Retirement
My weekly commentary will once again air on 91.7 KAXE’s “Between You and Me” this Saturday, July 12 between 10 a.m. and noon. The call-in/music show’s topic for the day is “retirement” and the program will be guest hosted by legendary KAXE volunteer programmer D.J. the D.J., who himself retired recently. Me? I’m a whipper…
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Make plans for cool July 19 music event in northern Minnesota
This is a shameless plug for an organization that I love. KAXE’s annual Mississippi River Festival is coming up on July 19. This is a full day of music along the Grand Rapids banks of the Mighty Miss’ in northern Minnesota. KAXE is an independent public station that capably holds the line against big corporate…
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Brown on the Air: Favorite Cars
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Brown on the Air: Circle of Life
Originally, “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE was going to take a hiatus for Saturday, June 28, but the independent public station’s summer fund raiser has been extended through Saturday so they are scrambling to put together a new show. The new topic is “cycles of life,” based in part on my column of…
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Brown on the Air: camping
Tune in tomorrow, Saturday, June 21, to 91.7 KAXE for “Between You and Me” featuring, among many other things, my weekly commentary. This week’s topic is “camping,” which is also the theme of station’s summer fund raiser. If you’ve never heard a KAXE on-air fund raiser, check it out. They provide elaborate thematic adventures that…
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Brown on the Air: Low cost summer fun
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Brown on the Air: summer jobs
My weekly contribution to KAXE’s “Between You and Me” this Saturday, in keeping with the show’s theme this week, will be an essay about summer jobs. Specifically I’ll be talking about one summer job I had in college where my job was, among other things, to make sure kids practiced proper lawnmower safety during their…
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Brown on the Air: Words
My weekly essay for “Between You and Me” discusses words. Words can be deeply meaningful and strangely bizarre. Sasquatch. Squat. Kumquat. Syphilis. What a wild lexicon we live in! Creators of words and those who use them should tune in between 10 a.m. and noon on Saturday, May 31 for “Between You and Me,” a…
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Brown on the Air: Exercise (for real)
The “exercise” show scheduled for last week’s “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE was postponed and will air, for real, this Saturday. My audio essay talks about exercise from an evolutionary standpoint, but don’t worry it’s not nearly that serious-sounding. Tune in between 10 a.m. and noon on 91.7 FM or streaming online at…
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Brown on the Air: Exercise, Dylan Days and more Dylan Days
My weekly radio essay for KAXE’s “Between You and Me” this week is about exercise. I take a broader look at exercise through an evolutionary lens. Using phrases like that helps me feel better about the general appearance of my torso. It’s supposed to be funny, so tune in and find out if it actually…
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Brown on the Air: Mom’s Cooking
My weekly commentary for Saturday’s “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE is entitled “High Heat” and talks about a couple kitchen stories and life lessons in honor of my grandma on this upcoming Mother’s Day. The call-in show will discuss the nostalgic topic of “Mom’s Cooking” while sharing great music and probably a recipe…
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Brown on the Air: "The Almighty Dollar"
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48 hour media blitz
Within 48 hours, I’ll cover all major forms of media. Tonight at 6 and 10 I’ll be on Range 11’s TV newscast talking about Dylan Days (May 22-25 in Hibbing); tomorrow the radio commentary on KAXE, Sunday morning’s Hibbing Daily Tribune column and, of course, the omnipresent blog you see here. I’m riding the air.…
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Brown on the Air: Parties!
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Hometown Focus to start weekly newspaper
There are two community journalism Internet presences on the Iron Range. (Compare that to your blue collar network of small towns). One is KAXE’s nonprofit Community Journalism Project (for which I am a paid blog instructor) and the other is the commercial Hometown Focus, which is run by folks I used to work with. Both…