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Four fried chickens and a coke
Enjoy the last (and perhaps best) of the Blues Brothers videos in advance of Thursday night’s HCC Theater Support Gala, 7:30 p.m. at the Hibbing High School Auditorium. This is another Facebook link. I’ll post all of the videos tomorrow with open links to my server (no time tonight, no time). Related posts: No related…
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The Astounding World of Tomorrow … Today
Here’s a Best Short Film winner from the New York Comedy Film Awards. Behold, “The Astounding World of Tomorrow.” I wouldn’t post it if it didn’t ring SO true. Hope you like nuance. (h/t TYWKIWDBI) Related posts: No related posts.
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Vogue lady says we’re fat (and not just a little bit)
Just read my new edition of Newsweek. They’re going high class now, if you didn’t know. Not one “Jon and Kate Plus 8” item. Not even as an ironic reference for a story about entitlement reform! Anyway, here’s this from the “Scope” section (formerly Periscope, the quotes page): “I’d just been on a trip to…
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Blue collars fading
The Daily Dish has been featuring a variety of guest bloggers this week as main man Andrew Sullivan is on vacation. One of them is Richard Florida, an economist I often cite, who wrote “The Rise of the Creative Class.” He argues that traditional social class structures are breaking into profession-oriented classes (working class, service…
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Bye American?
Here’s an interesting quandary. We all know the Iron Range mining sector is reeling right now. Partly because of this, our elected officials sought and received some strict “buy American” provisions in the federal economic recovery package. The logic was to bolster American steelmakers and iron mining operations by ensuring that American steel was used…
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Dirt track dispatch
There’s a shake up in the northern Minnesota dirt track racing universe. Superior is out of the circuit, leaving WISSOTA for NASCAR. Grand Rapids is racing on Thursdays now. Hibbing, Proctor and Ashland, Wis., are the other race tracks on the local circuit. Related posts: No related posts.
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Weathered Iron Ranger tops British charts
Bob Dylan’s new release “Together Through Life” has topped the UK charts. This is Dylan’s seventh British #1 but the first in 39 years, breaking a record for the longest gap between #1 records. Dylan Days in Bob’s hometown of Hibbing, Minn., are May 21-24. This is a grassroots celebration of music, literature and art…
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‘Pirates of Penzance’ in Hibbing
If you’re looking for a great piece of escapist art I strongly recommend Hibbing Community College Theater’s production of “The Pirates of Penzance” playing this weekend and next. We caught the show last night. Though the show relies on a much more benign perception of pirates than seen in the news lately, it’s a great…
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A Range blog worth reading
I like to point out when other blogs from northern Minnesota’s Iron Range start up. I have to recommend this one, Mesabi Misadventures, which I quoted in my column this week. This is a very funny blog but her most recent post is sobering for me to read and deeply related to the column I…
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That bunny looks funny
Over at the DailyKos, DarkSyde explains the evolution of rabbits now considered relevant to the secular celebration of Easter. Depending on your point of view, this critter either evolved into the Easter Bunny or was smote from the Earth by a vengeful God less than 5,000 years ago. Either way, Happy Easter! Related posts: No…
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All’s not well at Lake Wobegon
Something fun for Minnesotans and fans of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon: “Two Dozen More Bodies Found in Lake Wobegon,” The Onion Related posts: No related posts.
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A fresh start
Baseball’s opening day is often described as a time of hope. Your team might be the greatest ever and, until tonight at 7:10, no one will have evidence to prove otherwise. Thus: We’re going to win Twins;We’re going to score.We’re going to win Twins;watch that baseball soar. Crack out a home run,shout out hip hooray!Cheer…
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Trapper envy
Everyone gets the wrong mail sometimes. Postal workers are humans, after all. Maybe you’ve received someone’s college alumni newsletter or some kind of notice from a cell phone company. You just put it back in the box and assume that the matter is corrected. Well, in northern Minnesota you get some different kinds of mistaken…
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The Lone Pine India Holi Polka
Most followers of Range news have been tracking the Essar Steel development in Nashwauk, a new mine and steel plant owned by an international India-based steel company. Iron Range officials and educators are trying hard to embrace the Indian culture of the Essar managers and employees being assigned to the new facility as it begins…
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Northland arts mag Oeuvre sets sail amid turbulent times
Sophisticated readers of this blog (all 12 of you) know that Northern Minnesota has a surprisingly deep arts community. From visual artists to photographers to writers and poets, we are much more than beer and hypothermia. Thus, you should know that a new online arts, literature and culture publication called Oeuvre Magazine based in Duluth…