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I discovered local singer-songwriter Rachael Kilgour when I went to see a dance in Duluth round and she played a couple of songs from her self-titled debut album between dances. This is "discovered," not in the sense that Columbus "discovered" the Americas and was credited with discovering continents and people who had been around for millennia, but "discovered" as when you learn that you really, really like the taste of blueberries or the paintings of Johannes Vermeer. Kilgour is the youngest daughter of a family as whole-heartedly committed to social and political issues as they are to each other. Consequently it is not surprising that Kilgour, in the grand tradition of Harry… Read more
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I remember "Pinocchio" as being the first Disney movie I ever saw, although a half-century later such memories might be suspect, although I am pretty sure that the main thing I remember walking out of the movie theater way back when was Monstro the Whale. My main impression this time was that the animation is rougher than I recalled. Of course this makes perfect sense, because this 1940 movie is the first full-length animated film that Disney released after " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," although the studio was working on " Bambi" at the same time. But in my mind I had the… Read more
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At first glance it seemed strange that when "Sports Illustrated" published an excerpt from this book in a recent issue that it was the final chapter of "The Yankee Years." But now that I have read the book it makes sense because from start to finish the punchline that the Yankees let Joe Torre walk away from the job of managing the team pretty much overshadows everything that happens. It is like there is a subliminal message behind every success Torre had on the field that whispers to the reader "Can you believe they would ever fire this guy?" I started rooting for the New York Yankees in 1965, and for those of you without an encyclopedic recollection of the history of the team that was… Read more
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