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Category: Arts & Culture

  • Try a little poetry/folk music fusion this week on ‘da Range

    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…

  • Brown on the Air: FAVORITE SMALL TOWNS

    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…

  • Obscure regional author ‘sweetens the pot’ for Bob Dylan

    The second video for Iron Range Tourism’s “Come Home Bob” campaign is here. This one ought to shake things up. Me and my crazy side projects! Join the cause in welcoming Bob Dylan back to the Iron Range at “Come Home Bob.” Related posts: No related posts.

  • Brown on the Air: ACT HAPPY!

    Brown on the Air: ACT HAPPY!

    The topic for this Saturday morning’s “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE will be “Act Happy.” You may not know this, but it’s national “Act Happy Week,” a time of willing yourself to a better state of mind. My regular contribution is entitled “Work Smile.” I talk about the special smile you use, often…

  • COLUMN: "Driving into the sun"

    This is my column for the Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Driving into the sunBy Aaron J. Brown Last year a woman described to me how her dad was worn down by the grind of commuting from the Itasca County portion of the Iron Range into the St. Louis County…

  • In Praise of the Iron Range

    In Praise of the Iron Range

    The right honourable Kermit over at the conservative Minnesota politics blog True North has penned an earnest screed entitled “In Praise of the Suburb.” Go over and take a read. He’s a little quick to turn an anthropological issue into a political one, but he presents a new point of view. Suburbs exist for a…

  • 35,000 feet and falling

    35,000 feet and falling

    Popular Mechanics gives us what we really need: a detailed set of instructions for how to survive a 35,000 foot fall from a recently exploded airplane. When I say “must read” I mean it this time. Related posts: No related posts.

  • Marching band therapy for our times

    OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. For most folks, the latest video from the band OK GO! for their latest song “This Too Shall Pass” is just plain fun. (These were the guys who did the “treadmill video” that was popular some time ago, having since established themselves the…

  • Merry Christmas from MinnesotaBrown

    Merry Christmas from MinnesotaBrown

    Another throwback column to celebrate Christmas. Thank you to all who read and support this blog and my other writings all year long. May you have a joyous new year! Santa’s Christmas punch listBy Aaron J. Brown Dear Mr. Claus, I am writing in regard to your recent Christmas delivery. People the world over enjoy…

  • O, Christmas Threat

    O, Christmas Threat

    Merry Christmas Eve to all! In honor of the season, enjoy this reprint of my 2006 Christmas column about Santa Claus’s night flight. Let’s hope Santa has an easier time this year! O, Christmas Threat By Aaron J. Brown It’s Christmas Eve. My column is due and I am so hosed. I’ll just have to…

  • COLUMN: "The Beatles behind us"

    COLUMN: "The Beatles behind us"

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece ran Aug. 29 on KAXE’s “Between You and Me.” The Beatles behind usBy Aaron J. Brown On Sept. 9, 2009, the complete audio catalogue of The Beatles will be re-released with digitally re-mastered…

  • Brown on the Air: THE BEATLES!

    Brown on the Air: THE BEATLES!

    My regular contribution to 91.7 KAXE‘s Saturday morning program “Between You and Me” will join in this week’s topic of The Beatles. Fab Four fans Maggie Montgomery and Jennifer Poenix will be guest hosting the program while host/producer Heidi Holtan continues to hunt bears in the final frontier. My piece talks about the Beatles, sure,…

  • The nine circles of hell. You know, for fun.

    The nine circles of hell. You know, for fun.

    This Lapham’s Quarterly graphic clarifies the nine circles of Hell as depicted in Dante’s Inferno. (“Abandon All Hope, You Who Enter Here,” etc.). Do you fear Hell? Do you want someone else to go there? Well, name your sin (your dominant sin, that is) as you’ll know which circle of hell you’ll go to and…

  • If things get real bad we can eat them books

    MinnPost’s Catherine Conlan reports on northern Minnesota libraries as they serve as a refuge during the economic storm, all while struggling with budget cuts of their own. Related posts: No related posts.

  • ‘Kings’ is too good for you, America

    ‘Kings’ is too good for you, America

    NPR’s John Ridley asks the question I bellow at the TV after every showing of the NBC drama “Kings”: Why isn’t America watching this show? “Kings” is a modern day retelling of the Biblical story of David. It combines the political intrigue that fans of the West Wing would like, the philosophical questions that “Lost”…