Richard Chin
Feature and Magazine Writer at The Minnesota Star Tribune
Newspaperman. richard.chin@startribune. Often out on a quiet spree, vainly fighting the old ennui.
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1 week ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | Richard Chin
MINNEAPOLIS -- Maybe you didn't want your kid to play with toy guns or toy soldiers, so you gave him some wholesome, creative Lego bricks. Which works until he uses the interlocking plastic pieces to make a tank.
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | Richard Chin
MINNEAPOLIS -- Maybe you didn't want your kid to play with toy guns or toy soldiers, so you gave him some wholesome, creative Lego bricks. Which works until he uses the interlocking plastic pieces to make a tank. And that explains why World War Brick exists. World War Brick was a three-day convention held June 6-8 in Minneapolis devoted to military-themed Lego creations. It was put on by a Minneapolis company called Brickmania, which is sort of an arms dealer for the Lego world.
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1 week ago |
dailygazette.com | Richard Chin
MINNEAPOLIS -- Maybe you didn’t want your kid to play with toy guns or toy soldiers, so you gave him some wholesome, creative Lego bricks. Which works until he uses the interlocking plastic pieces to make a tank. kAmp?5 E92E 6IA=2:?D H9J (@C=5 (2C qC:4< 6I:DED]k^AmkAm(@C=5 (2C qC:4< H2D 2 E9C66\52J 4@?G6?E:@? 96=5 yF?6 e\g :? |:??62A@=:D 56G@E65 E@ >:=:E2CJ\E96>65 {68@ 4C62E:@?D] xE H2D AFE @?
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1 week ago |
unionleader.com | Richard Chin
Baseball fans might read “Casey at the Bat.”Runners have “To an Athlete Dying Young.”Basketball star Kobe Bryant wrote an ode to his sport called “Dear Basketball.”And now there’s a poem celebrating pickleball. Actually, there are 80 of them. Two paddles hung in a Dick’s emporium,And I —I bought the most expensive one,And that ... has made no difference.
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2 weeks ago |
keenesentinel.com | Richard Chin
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Baseball fans might read “Casey at the Bat.”Runners have “To an Athlete Dying Young.”Basketball star Kobe Bryant wrote an ode to his sport called “Dear Basketball.”And now there’s a poem celebrating pickleball. Actually, there are 80 of them. Two paddles hung in a Dick’s emporium,And II bought the most expensive one,And that ... has made no difference.
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My search for @StribGoingOut for a jukebox in the Twin Cities that plays actual records led me to a guy in Newport who fixes them, and a pizza joint in Chaska that plays 45s for a quarter a song: https://t.co/xwZuQ1qT8O
RT @LauraMcCallumB: Now that I'm on the #minnesotalife beat, I get to edit @rrchin stories like this one on an @Iceman_Hof weekend that i…
Is it worth $850 to spend a weekend shivering? That's the goal of a "Wim Hof Weekend" being planned later this month in northern Minnesota: https://t.co/iLwApEWaRX