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  Bob Dylan in Minnesota -...

  K G Miles, Ed Newman, Paul...

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  For Bob Dylan enthusiasts and anyone with an interest in the early life, places and roots of Bob Dylan.
  Bob Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota, grew up in nearby Hibbing, and cut his musical teeth in the folk scene of Dinkytown.
  This travel guide brings together wonderful stories from these key locations and the roots and early life of Bob Dylan.
  We also introduce you to four great contributors who live in Dylan's homeland and play an active part in promoting everything Dylan. Ed Newman - writer, artist and promoter of the Duluth Dylan Fest and lives in Duluth. Marc Percansky - concert, music and event promoter based in the Minneapolis Saint Paul. Matt Steichen - journalist, publicist, presenter and big Dylan fan living in Lakeville. And Paul Metsa - musician, songwriter, author, radio and TV host. The Huffington Post called him, 'The other great folksinger from Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range.'
  We travel back in time to hear stories from his early teacher, tales of the mysterious wandering rabbi, eye-witness accounts from early Dinkytown musical collaborators, as well as being privy to secrets from behind the scenes of the classic 'Blood On The Tracks' album.
  Fascinating insights into the early life of one of the most important songwriters in music history – and told with Minnesota voices.

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  Combat Love - A Story of Leaving...

  Alisyn Camerota

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  CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota's memoir Combat Love is her story of growing up longing for stability and attachment as the foundation of her family crumbled. Set on the Jersey Shore in the free-range 1980s, Camerota finds the belonging she craves courtesy of a local punk rock band named Shrapnel and their diehard fans. Combat Love chronicles her near-misses and misadventures at clubs like CBGB and Max's Kansas City, coupled with the sex, drugs, and punk rock of 1980s New Jersey. By the time she leaves home at sixteen, it feels like home had left her long ago. 
   
    
   
  Combat Love is also the story of two women, mother and daughter, trying to forge their own paths and independence, and find their own happiness, success, and wholeness. Camerota's story searches for the line between shelter and risk, nurture and neglect, parenting and personal freedom. What are we willing to sacrifice for self-actualization and happiness? What if the answer is your mother, or your daughter? 
   
    
   
  The two-time Emmy-award-winning Camerota retraces her steps down an often gritty path toward her dream of becoming a journalist. At times heartbreaking and pulse-pounding, Combat Love is an inspiration for anyone who's ever searched for that elusive place called home.

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  Small Broke and Kind of Dirty -...

  Hana Shafi

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  Let's get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You're not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those things are all good for you, but that's not what Hana Shafi wants to talk about.
  Instead, Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty—built around art from Shafi's popular online affirmation series—focuses on our common and never-ending journey of self-discovery. It explores the ways in which the world can all too often wear us down, and reminds us to remember our worth, even when it's hard to do so. Drawing on her experience as a millennial woman of colour, and writing with humour and a healthy dose of irreverence, Shafi delves into body politics and pop culture, racism and feminism, friendship, and allyship. Through it all, she remains positive without being saccharine, and hopeful without being naive.
  So no, this is not an advice book: it's a call to action, one that asks us to remember that we are valid as we are—flaws and all—and to not let the bastards grind us down.

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  Oasis' Definitely Maybe

  Alex Niven

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  Oasis’s incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century. In a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government, Noel Gallagher ventriloquized slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis ‘everymen’: Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll. On Definitely Maybe, Oasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds, but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping. Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as “Live Forever,” “Supersonic,” and “Cigarettes & Alcohol.” In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.

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  Classic Movie Radio Commercials...

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  This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s and 1970s for the following classic movies: Barbarella (1968), directed by Roger Vadim, featuring Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg; Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), directed by Otto Preminger, featuring Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea; Chappaqua (1966), directed by Conrad Rooks, featuring Conrad Rooks, William S. Burroughs, Jean-Louis Barrault; Endless Summer (1965), directed by Bruce Brown, featuring Robert August, Michael Hynson, Lord James Blears; Seaside Swingers(1964), directed by James Hill, featuring John Leyton, Michael Sarne, Peter Birrell; The Green Slime (1968), directed by Finji Fukasaku, featuring Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi; Hells Angels On Wheels (1967), directed by Richard Rush, featuring Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson; Help!(1965), directed by Richard Lester, featuring The Beatles; How I Won The War (1967), directed by Richard Lester, featuring Michael Crawford, John Lennon; I Am A Groupie (1970), directed by Derek Ford, featuring Esme Johns, Billy Boyle; Luv (1967), directed by Clive Donner, featuring Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk; Monterey Pop (1968), directed by D.A. Pennebaker, featuring Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas and the Papas; The Pied Piper (1972), directed by Jacques Demy, featuring Donovan, Donald Pleasence; Don't Make Waves (1967), directed by Alexander Mackendrick, featuring Sharon Tate, Claudia Cardinale; The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966), directed by Sergio Leone, featuring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef; The Producers (1967), directed by Mel Brooks, featuring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder; Thunderball (1965), directed by Terence Young, featuring Sean Connery, Claudine Auger; Wild In The Streets (1968), directed by Barry Shear, featuring Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters; Yellow Submarine (1968), directed by George Dunning, featuring The Beatles.

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  A Biocentric View of Our Common...

  Angela Manno

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  In this 2026 interview with Justine Willis Toms, Artist and iconographer Angela Manno, creator of the Sacred Biodiversity Oracle, offers a profound invitation into this awareness through a deck of 36 cards portraying animals and plants from around the world. Her luminous paintings shimmer with quiet, radical devotion to the living Earth, encouraging us to encounter other beings and ecosystems as sacred presences rather than distant “resources.”  
  Environmental leader Bill McKibben has described her work as “Powerful reminders of the beauty and holiness of the world we are destroying, and of our duty to protect what remains.”  
  Angela Manno is an award-winning visual artist based in New York City whose work weaves together spirituality, ecology, and contemporary iconography. A Bard College graduate, she also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and Parsons School of Design. She has also trained in Byzantine-Russian iconography with master Vladislav Andrejev. Her work has been exhibited at major institutions, including the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and NASA’s collections. She is especially known for her series Contemporary Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species.  
  Interview Date: 1/9/2026.   Tags: Angela Manno, Thomas Berry, Byzantine-Russian iconography, Viso Divina, Maasai lion guardians, Jane Goodall, conservation, environmental stewardship, Sundance ritual, Sandra Steingraber, Art & Creativity, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Meditation, Personal Transformation

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