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Brown on the Air: STORMY WEATHER!
This week’s edition of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE explores the topic of stormy weather. I’ll be joining the Saturday morning call-in and music program to offer commentary on one particular side effect of storms in our house, the bellowing of the weather alert radio my beautiful bride of almost 10 years keeps…
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Online media discussion to electrify Twin Ports radio, heat up sexy demo
I’ll be back at the University of Wisconsin-Superior Friday to appear on Final Edition on 91.3 KUWS, an affiliate of Wisconsin Public Radio. I worked for KUWS in both my undergraduate and graduate college years, first as a news reporter and later as operations manager. Fun fact: KUWS used to be some kind of study…
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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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This is a post about carp
So let’s say, hypothetically, that there’s this species of carp, see. It’s from Asia, see. Asian carp. And unlike regular carp, Asian carp is very aggressive, generally wiping out all other species of fish it encounters by consuming up to 40 pounds of domestic fish a day. This carp can walk great distances, swim backwards,…
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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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"Guy Walks Across America," allows me to procrastinate
I’ve got a few interesting topics I’m following this week (stay tuned) but I’m busy at present, so here’s a cool viral video featuring a guy walking across America all jittery and awesome-like. (Via Mashable). Related posts: No related posts.
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COLUMN: Iron Range 1969
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, July 25, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Thanks to Bill Lah for connecting me with the report mentioned in this column. Iron Range 1969By Aaron J. Brown (Chorus) Back in Summer of ’69 Man we were killin’ time.We were young and restless.We needed to unwind.I…
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We’re going underground again (in theory)
The Star Tribune reports on a big financing break for copper mining on the eastern Iron Range. This is not Polymet, but rather a newly formed company, (Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, if you need the name) that believes it can mine underground and produce 40,000 tons of copper a day. All this tells me is…
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Squirrels, again!
Now that the Hibbing Public Utilities Commission settled its labor problems, union and management forces turn their steely eyes to the real enemy: Squirrels. Two electrocuted-squirrel-oriented power outages have hit Hibbing in just two days. I try to clip and and save all the newspaper reports of squirrel-induced power outages. There are quite a few.…
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Brown on the Air: CAMPFIRES!
Tune in to 91.7 KAXE‘s weekly call-in and music program “Between You and Me” Saturday morning. This week’s topic is “campfires,” a hot one — HOT, GET IT! Guest hosts Michael Goldberg and Gail Otteson will lead a conversation that will explore every corner of campfire traditions and stories. Like Michael and Gail, I’m a…
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Paul Bunyan flash mob, a folk tale
KAXE-Northern Community Radio is expanding, forming a new affiliated station in Bemidji called KBXE. Northern Community Radio is more than radio; it’s internet, news and original programming across the northern Minnesota spectrum. Anyway, to bring attention to the upcoming changes organizers staged a “Paul Bunyan flash mob,” in honor of Bemidji’s famed Paul Bunyan and…
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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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Internet, AV nerds to unite in powerful alliance
This New American Foundation blog post describes how the world of crazy public access television activism is merging with the world of crazy online journalism, forming a new, perhaps more powerful network of people who lack social skills but are, nevertheless, VERY CONCERNED about zoning. I kid, of course. This is important. Like radio, once…
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Understanding the (parameters of the discussion of the) true nature of the universe, featuring dark matter Powerpoint
Fans of this blog know that I’m a sucker for underground mines and dark matter. It’s like peanut butter and chocolate. Here’s the press release for an upcoming event related to both at the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm. Get to the bottom of Soudan lab experiments On Wednesday, July 21 and Thursday, August 5,…
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The new Duluth & the big problem for northern Minnesota
Minnesota Business Magazine covers “The New Duluth” in its July cover story. The story focuses on Duluth, Minnesota’s successes and challenges as it fights to expand beyond its shipping and manufacturing economic base. It’s a good story for Duluth, particularly its first term mayor Don Ness, but more importantly it outlines the big problem. Excuse…