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CAPITOL CHATTER Legacy funding debate splits urban and rural senators
By Don Davis Rural and urban Minnesota senators battled Wednesday night about how to divide outdoors and arts program funding. Rural senators won, but just barely. Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, sai...
Posted on 5/15/13 at 8:26 PM
A MINNESOTAN IN CHINA Tai Chi: What Goes Around Comes Around
It had only been two days on this mountain in Hubei province. But in a whole new environment----one that encouraged the focus of every moment, no less---this meant a concentrated, super-saturated 48 ...
Posted on 9/8/12 at 8:20 AM
STAFF BLOG AREA VOICES BLOG A real life Eva Gabor? - Areavoices Digest #80
If you're over a certain age...ahem...you grew up not only watching this ridiculous show but singing it's catchy lyrics. Green acres is the place for me. Farm livin' is the life for me. Land sprea...
Posted on 6/27/12 at 2:42 PM
ROTARY CLUB OF FARMINGTON Thanks for a great night of rock and roll
There was reason to be worried about this year's Rocktoberfest. Heading into Saturday the forecast called for cold and rain, and heavy rainfall had already caused significant flooding in other commu...
Posted on 9/27/10 at 10:01 PM
Book Report: Minnesota writers shine bright
“Thirty Rooms to Hide In,” by Luke Longstreet Sullivan (University of Minnesota Press, $24.95) has a subtitle that sort of grabs you: “Insanity, Addiction, and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , December 28, 2012
Book Report: Not one, but many for the history books
Have a history buff on your holiday guest list? You won’t be disappointed to find all manner of biography and serious history new to bookshelves this winter.
By Dave Wood, columnist , December 21, 2012
Book Report: Take your pick, there's something for everyone
Someone on your holiday gift list who likes to read books by and about
characters in the upper Midwest? There’s a plethora in that category
this year. If your target is politics, try “Minnesota’s Miracle,” by Tom
Berg (University of Minnesota Press, $22.95, paper). Berg served in the
Minnesota State Legislature in the seventies when politicos got things done.
By Dave Wood, columnist , December 13, 2012
Book Report: Give the gift of a local author
The holiday season is upon us and the search for appropriate gifts has begun.
By Dave Wood, columnist , December 06, 2012
Book Report: Sights and sounds under the big top
When I was a kid one of the biggest deals of the year was when the Al G. Kelly and Miller Brothers Circus came to town.
By Dave Wood, columnist , November 29, 2012
Book Report: Post-election wrap-up
Now that the election is over I thought I might stir the pot a bit with mention of a new book that’s been receiving attention. It’s “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court,” by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday, $28.95). A writer for the New Yorker magazine, Toobin has written a red hot book about the conflicts between two young movers and shakers, Barack Obama and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.
By Dave Wood, columnist , November 08, 2012
Book Report: Author: Brutal honesty liberates
Recently, a thoughtful friend dropped by and shoved a book in my gut and said, “Read this. I think you’ll enjoy it.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , November 02, 2012
Not all is “buono” in Italia
My wife and I love to travel to Italy. We love the landscape, the architecture, the food and the people.
October 25, 2012
Book Report: Nothing that simple in Amish land
Several writers are taking their cues from earlier centuries.
In the 18th century, Samuel Richardson found he had a bestseller on his hands when he wasn’t even trying. Richardson sold stationery to the hoi polloi.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 18, 2012
Book Report: What readers crave: Clear, lively wordplay
Today we’ll examine two new books that have to do with good writing by writers who are indeed very good.
October 10, 2012
Book Review: Insider knowledge leads to gripping story; Feingold's "While America Sleeps"
White Bear Lake novelist Julie Kramer makes good use of her past experience as a news producer for NBC, CBS and WCCO-TV, which is only one reason she has become a national bestselling and award winning author of thrillers like her latest in her popular Riley Spartz series, “Shunning Sarah” (Atria Books, $23.99).
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 27, 2012
Book Report: Memories: Looking back on what was, wasn’t and the many paths not taken
When you are in your twenties, even if you’re confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 19, 2012
Book Report: Exposing the underbelly of old D.C.
It’s no secret that talent runs in families. Years ago I worked with Anthony Morley on the Minneapolis Tribune.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 07, 2012
Book Report: This author shines as voice of a community
Novelist Toni Morrison has won the National Book Critics Circle, the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for her fiction.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 29, 2012
Book Review: Did she or didn’t she: Does it even matter?
Dorothy Parker was born on this day 119 years ago in West End, N.J., just a year after poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, about which Parker said “I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 24, 2012
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