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Is this prudent policy on prurient pay-per-view? P’shaw!
Here’s something interesting. Commissioners in Winona County in southeastern Minnesota have voted 4-0 to ban county employees from staying in hotels that OFFER pay-per-view porn movies. (One commissioner “abstained” — HA HA). Bear in mind that purchasing such movies has always been against the rules, but now everyone who works for the county has to…
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Art in the Park closes tonight in Chisholm
Tonight the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm closes its “Art in the Park” concert series at the amphitheater. Admission is free with live local music, food, beverage and fun for all. “Slapshot” will be the headliner at this show, which runs from 5-9 p.m. I’m sure there will be plenty of surprises. As I said…
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Range fun for free: Art in the Park series nears close
The next-to-final show of the “Art in the Park” Iron Range music series hits the Minnesota Discovery Center amphitheater stage Thursday night in Chisholm. Support local musicians Thursday, August 26, at Minnesota Discovery Center’s Art in the Park event. Music begins at 6 p.m. featuring Deafman’s Radio, a blues and rockabilly ensemble out of northern…
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Keep Looking Up
When you live in a place like the Iron Range, you learn to cope with a lot of stuff that needs “saving.” Local businesses need saving. Mines need saving. The arts need saving. Schools need saving. Everybody’s got problems and no institution is really safe. The population is aging and the economy is stuck wearing…
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Thursday = free live music on the Range! (beer, mini golf and trolley rides extra)
The free outdoor summer music series “Art in the Park” returns to the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm Thursday evening. Summer is going fast! Minnesota Discovery Center announces the performers for the August 12 Art in the Park event: Fathers and Sons will open at 6 p.m., followed by BitterSweet (classic rock, rhythm and blues…
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Thursday night free Range music show adds to St. Louis Co. fair fun next door
The Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm is presenting another free Thursday night music show in its “Art in the Park” series tonight. This week’s performance coincides with the St. Louis County Fair, which makes for a whole heap of entertainment options in the central Iron Range. Thursday, July 29, Minnesota Discovery Center hosts acoustic musician…
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"Five best days of summer" kick start Wednesday on the Iron Range
The St. Louis County Fair (NORTH!) runs Wednesday through Sunday at the fairgrounds in Chisholm, across Highway 169 from the city, next to the Minnesota Discovery Center (nee Ironworld). Just follow the giant chicken. Dubbed “The five greatest days of summer” by fair organizers, this is another of those classic Iron Range summer events where…
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Range Thursday night music series rolls on
“Art in the Park,” the free Iron Range summer concert series, continues this Thursday night in Chisholm at the Minnesota Discovery Center. Find out more on Facebook or in their press release: Minnesota Discovery Center’s Art in the Park series continues Thursday, July 22, with Northland Broadway Youth Players rehearsing “Superior Treasure” from 5-6 p.m.,…
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Free local music Thursday nights an early hit at big, familiar Chisholm venue
“Art in the Park,” the Thursday night free local music event at the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm is a hit, according to sources at the center. More than 350 people attended last week’s event, filling the new main parking lot, and now that people are finding out about it this might become the cool…
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Art in the Park Thursday nights – Welcome to July!
Art in the Park Thursdays at the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm roll onward tonight starting at 5 p.m. Free admission to the MDC (Ironworld, by another name) and a variety of live music in the pavilion. Join us Thursdays June 17 through September 2, 2010, from 5-9 p.m. for Art in the Park, a…
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COLUMN: Goin’ viral (a good thing, I think)
This is my column for the Sunday, May 23, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Goin’ viral (a good thing, I think)By Aaron J. Brown By now, if you are at all inclined to care, you’ve seen the “Come Home Bob” campaign sponsored by the Iron Range Convention and Tourism Board. The gist is…
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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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Actual gypsies also welcome at "Gypsy" in Hibbing
Those looking for a fun time on the Iron Range this weekend should check out the Hibbing Community College Theater’s production of “Gypsy,” which closes Sunday. The shows tonight and Saturday night start at 7:30. and the Sunday matinee is at 1:30 p.m. The wife and I shall put on our theater clothes to attend…
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Try a little poetry/folk music fusion this week on ‘da Range
Perhaps you find yourself in the vicinity of the Iron Range and in need of quality entertainment and culture this week? Indeed, you’re in luck. The Sutter Brothers, a poetry and music duo, is touring Iron Range libraries all week long. A poetry-and-music duo, The Sutter Brothers have performed all over Minnesota and beyond—from Sandstone’s…
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Brown on the Air: FAVORITE SMALL TOWNS
My contribution to this Saturday morning’s edition of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE will join the call-in and music program’s weekly topic of “favorite small towns.” Listeners will be able to share stories and insights about their favorite small towns, particularly the many excellent small towns here in Minnesota. This topic arrives in…