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• Comet Theater meets fundraising goal, will surivive into Digital Age

  
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  The Comet Theater in Cook, the oldest active single-screen theater left in Minnesota, faced an existential crisis this spring and has survived . Last week, the theater announced it had met its Kickstarter goal of raising $80,000 for new digital equipment allowing them to show modern features. Movie studios are no ...
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• Price of gas a combustible crisis in northern MN

  
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  Gas prices reaching $4.50 in some places have northern Minnesotans hopped up on angry fumes . It reflects a jump of more than a dollar a gallon in just over a week. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, along with Rep. Rick Nolan, are all calling for federal investigations of price fixing. The reason given for the ...
  5 days ago

• Dylan sculpted music, now hometowns etch him in history

  
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  This is my Sunday column for the May 19, 2013 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune . Ill be revealing more about Tom Pages Dylan sculpture project in a week or so. Dylan sculpted music, now hometowns etch him in history By Aaron J. Brown The figure crouches over a guitar, playing against a hurricane. A ...
  6 days ago

• The Whistling Bird to reopen: Caribbean food on the Iron Range!

  
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  UPDATE: The Duluth News Tribune confirms the report , interviewing new owner Jessica Antonovich and chef Patrick Berg. Berg was mentored by the late Whistling Bird co-owner JoPat Curtis during a three year stint as kitchen manager at the original restaurant. The new Whistling Bird will include a wider variety of ...
  1 week ago

• Bus service returns to the Iron Range

  
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  As the folk history of Hibbing goes, the most famous exports of this city on northern Minnesotas Mesabi Iron Range have been iron ore, Bob Dylan and the Greyhound Bus Company. Though several bus companies joined together to form Greyhound, the earliest fore-runner was a little taxi service that brought men from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stonich takes interesting new novel on northern MN tour

  
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  Minnesota author Sarah Stonich kicks off a tour of the states great northern environs this Monday for her new book " Vacationland ." The tour puts her in most of the libraries of the Arrowhead Library System. May 13: Duluth, 6 p.m., main library May 14: Hibbing, noon; Buhl, 3 p.m.; Aurora 6 p.m. May 15: Gilbert, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Radinovich, others show courage of conviction in marriage vote

  
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  Yesterday the Minnesota House of Representatives voted to extend marriage rights to all Minnesotans , including gay and lesbian couples, by a vote of 75-59. Four Republicans supported the measure and two Democratic-Farmer-Laborites opposed it, making this a bipartisan split. All northern Minnesota DFLers supported ...
  2 weeks ago

• Marge Simpson was an Iron Ranger?!!

  
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  Mind. Blown. Todays "Eh?" column in the Duluth News Tribune discusses the obituary for the mother of Matt Groening, creator of the iconic and influential TV show "The Simpsons." Simpsons fans learned a couple years ago that the "real Springfield" was Springfield, Oregon, near where Groening grew up. He has also ...
  2 weeks ago

• You can haz Virginia Police Department

  
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  Before the internet they used to take all the stupid stuff that is on the internet and print it onto paper and then distribute this paper to readers using a vast network of 11-year-olds on bicycles. Hold up. They still do this. This is still a thing. Only now the papers are distributed in a 1997 Buick Century by a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trampled by Turtles (@tbtduluth), Actual Wolf (@actualwolf) at Reif Center tonight

  
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  Tonight, Christina and I will be attending the Trampled by Turtles concert at the Reif Center in Grand Rapids. The Turtles are making their 10th anniversary tour around Minnesota, hitting venues where they got their start. Grand Rapids is the hometown of bassist Tim Saxhaug. Opening for TBT is Actual Wolf, whose ...
  2 weeks ago

• Haunting Lynx showdown deserves your internet attention

  
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  A Tofte, Minnesota, couple took some video of two lynx facing off on a rural road. Seeing a lynx (a woodland feline predator) is a rare treat in itself. Seeing two of them yowl at each other, well, really you should treat yourself and spend some time with this: (h/t Duluth News Tribune )
  2 weeks ago

• The rise and fall and (?) of regions like ours

  
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  This Willie Davis article at The Daily Yonder is must-read if you follow my coverage of the rural industrial corridor of Minnesotas Iron Range. Davis looks to Kentuckys coal mining country and its efforts to find economic and cultural footing amid the decline of coal mining . It begins like this: Not long ago, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Great opportunity, major test for Iron Range schools

  
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  This is my Sunday column for the May 5, 2013 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Great opportunity, major test for Iron Range schools By Aaron J. Brown At a glance, there’s nothing special about the Iron Range. Old houses built for workers. Streets stained red from the ore that brought the town to ...
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• Rethinking the water debate in northern MN

  
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  The most serious environmental issue in northern Minnesotas nonferrous mining debate is water. (And yes, the environment is not the only part of that story). Though opinions on how projects like PolyMet or Twin Metals will affect the ground water of northern Minnesota vary at this time, you cant ignore the fact that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unfortunate sign malfunction implies Unitarian damnation

  
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  Two weeks ago, the highway sign for the Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Unitarian Universalist Chapel on Highway 169 broke. Two weeks later, this is still what passing motorists see. Apparently MNDOTs sign department has been infiltrated by hard-line Baptists. And the Unitarians are too nice to say anything. A divine ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Summer of 16: Weve been robbed long enough

  
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  An August 19, 1916 editorial cartoon in "Solidarity" entitled "Someone Has Got to Get Out of the Way." By far my favorite piece of Iron Range historical art. Hey, its May Day! I wrote earlier about the Mesabi Range Strike of 1907 . I referenced, but did not explain the larger strike that came later in 1916. ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Mesabi Iron Range Strike of 1907

  
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  For Twin Cities readers you may wish to catch the documentary " The Mesabi Iron Range Strike of 1907 " tonight at 7:30 on KFAI . Produced by Britt Aamodt, this piece explores the seminal moment that workers organized in the mines of the Iron Range. Unsuccessful, the first great strike of the Iron Range led to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paul Metsa to headline Range show May 3

  
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  Musician Paul Metsa, a singer and songwriter originally from Virginia, Minnesota, on the Iron Range, will perform Friday, May 3rd at The Loft @ Lyric Center for the Arts on Chestnut Street. The opening act is the The Hutter Bunch beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. The press release: Paul Metsa, a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dylan Days names 2013 B.J. Rolfzen writing contest winners

  
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  As many of you might recall, I am one of the co-organizers of Dylan Days in Hibbing, Minnesota. This arts and culture event celebrates Bob Dylan and the arts community of his Iron Range hometown. Dylan Days will be May 23-26, 2013 . This year were celebrating Bob Dylans Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded last ...
  4 weeks ago

• You could not axe for a better movie than this

  
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  Ladies and gentlemen. I dont ask much of you. Today, I must ask one thing and one thing only. Please, for the love of all that is good and holy, go below the jump of this post to see a trailer for the independent horror film " Axe Giant: the Wrath of Paul Bunyan ." Really, just click here . This is real. This is ...
  4 weeks ago

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