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Connie Evingson performs tonight at Crooners Lounge

Hibbing native Connie Evingson will be performing tonight at Crooners Lounge in Fridley. That's one of your many musical options this New Year's Eve.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Intelligence Squared debate: Is Trump bad for comedy?

Intelligence Squared debate: Is Trump bad for comedy?

For our New Year's Eve broadcast, four humorists, satirists and performers debate this motion: "Is Trump bad for comedy?"
by MPR News Staff

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Pop culture: 50 wonderful things from 2018

Pop culture: 50 wonderful things from 2018

A pop culture critic takes some time to run down not 10, not 20, but 50 wonderful things from movies, TV and more in 2018.
by Linda Holmes

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Rosanne Cash on the importance of living out loud

Rosanne Cash on the importance of living out loud

Rosanne Cash's latest album, "She Remembers Everything," cuts a path through gun violence, sexism and the relentless march of time. "There's no point in hedging my bets about what I write about anymore," she says.
by Debbie Elliott and Ned Wharton

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Amos Oz dies at 79; hailed as 'glory' of Israel's writers

Amos Oz dies at 79; hailed as 'glory' of Israel's writers

The novelist and peace advocate died Friday. He once called the language in which he wrote, modern Hebrew, his "musical instrument" and compared it to "an erupting lava, an earthquake in action."
by Martha Wexler

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Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" reached number one 50 years ago

Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" reached number one on the Billboard Country chart 50 years ago today. Jimmy Webb, who wrote the song, told Songfacts that the inspiration was an image he witnessed while driving one day.
by Cathy Wurzer

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New U.S.-Cuban youth orchestra to create diplomatic notes

New U.S.-Cuban youth orchestra to create diplomatic notes

The idea for the ensemble grew out of the Minnesota Orchestra's visit to Cuba in 2015.
by Euan Kerr

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Acclaimed local artist chosen for official Dayton portrait

Acclaimed local artist chosen for official Dayton portrait

Departing Gov. Mark Dayton, who once regarded the process of having his portrait done to be 'trivial,' has selected a Minnesota-based artist to put his face on canvas.
by Brian Bakst

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