Video
May 18, 2013
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appletondowntown:

Beach House - “Myth”  filmed in Downtown Appleton.  Here’s a note from the film maker, David Aragon.

Hey friends!

Just wanted to say thank you for being so hospitable a couple years ago to allow me to shoot my film on your streets! Here is the final film — Thank you!!

It’s neat to see some familiar scenes in this music video.

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Photoset
May 16, 2013
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Wildfire fighting: Firefighters have contained a 9,000 acre wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin. In the Town of Gordon, the fire ignited Tuesday and has since destroyed 17 homes and 30 other structures. 

The wildfire is northern Wisconsin’s biggest in 33 years. 

(Photo credit: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Associated Press; Clint Austin/The Duluth News-Tribune)

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Video
May 16, 2013
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RUBIK’S CUBE WHIZ: Fourteen-year-old Appleton kid Brennan Arnold can solve the popular puzzle in seconds. He holds some of the fastest times in Wisconsin in several categories.

(Video credit: Brett Christopherson/Post-Crescent Media)

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Photo
May 14, 2013
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nbcnews: Goodbye productivity… Google image search leads to impromptu game of ‘Atari Breakout’ (Photo: Google) Always looking for new opportunities to turn its mammoth search engine and associated features into interactive and exceedingly distracting Easter eggs, Google has put on another show in honor of the 37th birthday of Atari’s classic video game “Breakout.” Read the complete story. I heart Easter eggs.

nbcnews:

Goodbye productivity… Google image search leads to impromptu game of ‘Atari Breakout’

(Photo: Google)

Always looking for new opportunities to turn its mammoth search engine and associated features into interactive and exceedingly distracting Easter eggs, Google has put on another show in honor of the 37th birthday of Atari’s classic video game “Breakout.”

Read the complete story.

I heart Easter eggs.

Photo
May 02, 2013
FURRY FRIENDS: Any guesses what the most popular dog and cat names are in Appleton? Post-Crescent Media requested pet licenses from the Appleton Police Department to find that out. You can also search the database to see how the names of your dogs and cats rank among the rest of the city. (Photo credit: Ron Page/Post-Crescent Media) 

FURRY FRIENDS: Any guesses what the most popular dog and cat names are in Appleton? Post-Crescent Media requested pet licenses from the Appleton Police Department to find that out. You can also search the database to see how the names of your dogs and cats rank among the rest of the city.

(Photo credit: Ron Page/Post-Crescent Media) 

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Photoset
April 30, 2013
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BIG FISH: It’s sturgeon spawning season on the Wolf River.This unique site is expected to progress quickly this year. If you want to witness it, hurry out to one of the popular viewing locations. 

(Photo credit: Dan Powers/Post-Crescent Media)

Tags: sturgeon spawning wolf river wisconsin fish outdoors spring

Photoset
April 26, 2013
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A black bear was shot dead by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources after it killed a donkey on a hobby farm. 

It’s department policy to kill bears that kill livestock.

(Photo credit: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)

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Photo
April 26, 2013
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rollingstone: George Jones, known as “the greatest voice in country music,” died today at a Nashville Hospital. He was 81 years old. RIP George Jones. 

rollingstone:

George Jones, known as “the greatest voice in country music,” died today at a Nashville Hospital. He was 81 years old.

RIP George Jones. 

Photo
April 24, 2013
Childcare costs have nearly doubled in the last 25 years. Families are struggling to keep up.  Combined Locks mother Melanie Bloy Lee expects to spend $16,000 this year for her two children. Jennifer Chan is looking at about $1,700 a month for her two children. “Our son, Max, will start kindergarten in the fall, and it will probably seem as if we won the lottery,” Chan said.  (Photo credit: Dan Powers/Post-Crescent Media)

Childcare costs have nearly doubled in the last 25 years. Families are struggling to keep up.  

Combined Locks mother Melanie Bloy Lee expects to spend $16,000 this year for her two children. Jennifer Chan is looking at about $1,700 a month for her two children.

“Our son, Max, will start kindergarten in the fall, and it will probably seem as if we won the lottery,” Chan said. 

(Photo credit: Dan Powers/Post-Crescent Media)

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Quote
April 19, 2013
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"But I do love this city. I love its atrocious accent, its inferiority complex in terms of New York, its nut-job drivers, the insane logic of its street system. I get a perverse pleasure every time I take the T in the winter and the air-conditioning is on in the subway car, or when I take it in the summer and the heat is blasting. Bostonians don’t love easy things, they love hard things — blizzards, the bleachers in Fenway Park, a good brawl over a contested parking space. Two different friends texted me the identical message yesterday: They messed with the wrong city."

— “Messing with the Wrong City” by Dennis Lehane in The New York Times. We will be talking with Lehane, among others about the events unfolding in Boston on the show today. (via nprfreshair)