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Art is Everywhere

Art is everywhere you look, especially if you’re at a large and artsy gathering such as the Brookings Summer Arts Festival. The Summer Arts Festival attracts enough people to Brookings fill a stadium. We’re talking about a stadium that’s packed to the rafters as in a fiery World Cup ...

NUFS forecasts “Singin’ in the Rain”

NEW ULM - The New Ulm Film Society’s (NUFS) musical series continues Tuesday, despite a 100% chance of rain with a high probability of singing in it. The screening begins at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, at the New Ulm Public Library. “Singin’ in the Rain” was released in 1952 and is a ...

‘Beautiful game’ around the planet

I have followed the World Series since 1965; the year the Dodgers beat our Twins. I was 9. As I got older, I realized the “World” Series isn’t really the world. The World Cup is the world, the entire world. Right now, here in the middle of the continent, the World Cup surrounds us. ...

A hilly vacation

I recently came home to find my wife staring out the window. “Look at Bella,” she whispered. Bella, our dog, was sitting on the deck and staring intently at the lawn. Out on the lawn, our cat, Sparkles, was staring intently at a gopher hole. You know it’s time to go on vacation ...

Looking back on songs about America

Music has always been a staple to the town of New Ulm, the once Polka Capital of the United States. The Minnesota Music Hall of Fame sits on the corner of 1st N and Broadway, and live music can be found at German park, the Grand, and countless other locations. With it being the 250th ...

Looking back on the family vacation

This is the time of year when Americans traditionally embark on extended journeys with their loved ones. Some of these journeys are so long that by the time they end there’s a good deal of fantasizing about leaving said loved ones at the next roadside gas station. It’s family vacation ...