November 29, 2006

New Neighborhood House

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Matt Johnson lives in Columbia Heights and witnessed two houses being replaced by three. The new houses come by truck, 1/2 a house each. Ever seen half a house?

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November 28, 2006

The Santas Are Running

Vlog Santa is back! And he has his own web site: Vlogsanta.tv

Sunday, Nov. 26 was the first "Running of the Santas" before the Holidazzle parade in downtown Minneapolis. (Apparently they weren't supposed to use that name. Here's the official Running of the Santas) It was a benefit for Legal Aid, providing free civil legal services to low-income and disadvantaged people throughout Minnesota.

Vlog Santa was confused about the event, however. He thought they were raising money for criminals. When the santas started running, Vlog Santa panicked because he assumed the cops were after them. Oh Vlog Santa, when will you ever learn! (laughter)

Vlog Santa has more adventures in store. Meanwhile, he is reluctantly obligated to answer your computer video questions. Email santa@vlogsanta.tv with your questions, which MUST be in video form. You can send video to Vlog Santa with services like YouSendIt or just stick it on YouTube or Blip.tv.

Vlog Santa is also offering personalized video greetings this year for $25. Details coming soon.

NEW TO VLOG SANTA? WATCH VLOG SANTA'S CLASSICS:
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War on Christmas
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Meet My Damn Wife

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November 24, 2006

Turkey Day 1940

Happy Thanksgiving! If you have any video from your holiday weekend, send it in.

This is the earliest known film of Turkey Day, a yearly festival held in the city of Worthington, Minnesota.

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November 23, 2006

Turkey Race

Happy Thanksgiving! If you have any video from your holiday weekend, send it in.

Here's some amusing video of the 2006 Great Gobbler Gallop in Worthington, MN on 9-16-2006. Video by RubysTown.

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November 22, 2006

What Muslim Prayer Looks Like

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In light of the detention of six Muslim clerics by US Airways in the Twin Cities, it might be fruitful to show Minnesotans what a Muslim prayer looks like.

A telling quote from the story: A US Airways gate agent wrote that three of the men prayed in Arabic at the gate. "I was suspicious by the way they were praying very loud," the gate agent said.

Heck, I might well be suspicious of anyone praying loudly, regardless of their religion. Nevertheless, I fear many Minnesotans see a Muslim kneeling and chanting on a prayer rug and imagine "Death to America!" This video may clear the air with both Arabic and English translations from part of the Muslim noon prayer - one of five daily prayers.

RELATED LINKS:
Introduction to Islam
Janna.com - Islam Learning Center

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November 21, 2006

Street Boxing

"A short practice fight between Willie and Jermaine" in East St. Paul. If that's not enough street fighting for you, here's part two.

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November 20, 2006

Hüsker Dü: New Day Rising (Live)

Let's start the week off right, shall we? YouTuber kastas666 writes: From their out of print VHS tape. Vintage melodic Hardcore by the guys who invented this stuff! Thrash on!

When former Hüsker bass player Greg Norton isn't wearing a chef's hat, he's kicking out the jams in The Gang Font.

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November 17, 2006

If a tree falls

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David Howell shares a poignant autumn interlude.

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November 16, 2006

Paranoid question for Keith Ellison

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CNN's Beck to first-ever Muslim congressman: "[W]hat I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies' " [SOURCE: Media Matter]

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November 15, 2006

Jim Smoked Pot... Now His Voice Is Shot!

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Don't let it happen to you! A well-told story of overindulgence from Duane Kuss from DigElog ROCORI.

By the way, I'm been remiss in announcing here that Minnesota Stories won two awards at The Vloggies in San Francisco! We won for Favorite Community Vlog and People's Choice for Community Vlog. I'll post video from the awards sometime soon. They played Duane's Team Milking Contest video after announcing the winner, which really underscores that these awards truly belong to everyone who has contributed a Minnesota story. Hooray for us!

WELCOME MPR LISTENERS! Click here to watch the mnartists video profile of Jonathan Nelson.

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November 10, 2006

Michael Brodkorb interview

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More election night coverage from Republican HQ. Here's a quick chat with G.R. Anderson from City Pages and an interview with Michael Brodkorb from Minnesota Democrats Exposed. Enjoy!

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November 09, 2006

Jason Lewis on Election Night

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Twin Cities talk show host Jason Lewis has an honest assessment of Republicans in the mid-term election. He's interviewed by Paul Demko from City Pages.

ANOTHER ELECTION NIGHT VIDEO:
G.R. Anderson interviews Dan McElroy, Advisor to Gov. Pawlenty

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November 08, 2006

Mark Kennedy concession speech

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Minnesota Stories was at Republican election headquarters, covering the event for City Pages. We'll have more edited video this week. For now, here's raw footage of Mark Kennedy's concession speech.

RELATED LINK: MPR: Klobuchar races to easy victory in Senate race

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November 07, 2006

Vote

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I wanted to tape Vlog Santa voting today, but here's the next best thing: A speech by Mark Ritchie, running for Secretary of State.

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November 02, 2006

mnartists: Jonathan Nelson

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AWESOME ANNOUNCEMENT
mnartists.org teams with Minnesota Stories for a video series on Minnesota artists

I'm so excited to kickoff this series, and to be working with mnartists.org. I know that sounds like press release language, but it's true. Nothing is more rewarding to me than documenting artists in their space, learning the how/why/where behind their art and crafting their story in video form.

The first artist is my longtime friend Jon Nelson, most famous as host of Some Assembly Required and his sound collage alter-ego, Escape Mechanism. What you may not know is he creates beautiful visual mashups of old theater lights and other objects, such as suitcases and shovels. Jon is aprt of a show called "create • destroy • repeat" opening Dec 1 at Rosalux Gallery.

Special thanks to Jon, and to Kathleen Kvern for instigating and guiding this online video series.

PARTNER LINK: mnartists.org

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Tater Twat Hotdish

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What do you get when you cross Charles Bukowski with Ze Frank? Genius. What you get is genius.

Duluth native John Holden does weird things at Detrimental Information, also the name of his zine. This video probably has what you'd call "explicit content." Yesterday we had a very woman-positive vibe on Minnesota Stories, and today - well, you just never know what's going to happen.

John writes: I show you how to make a tater tot/twat hotdish. I take one comment. And then it's the final episode of the Cathie and John Show. The music in this episode was composed by my cousin, Drew Doom.

RELATED VIDEO: RE: Chuck Olsen

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November 01, 2006

Tracks of the Land

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This video comes to us from artist and educator Kari Tauring, who writes:

I have a music video created in the early '90s which I have used in performance recently. It is called "Tracks on the Land" and deals with the sale and destruction of farm land in the midwest.

(Note: Music doesn't start for a few seconds.)

RELATED VIDEO: Discovering Origins

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