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
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Attention, Louvre Museum: It might be a good idea to keep Seamus Liam O'Brien away from the Mona Lisa. Otherwise the St. Paul man might be tempted to paint a bright rubber duck somewhere on the famous painting and add his signature to da Vinci's.
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sacbee.com | Richard Chin
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Attention, Louvre Museum: It might be a good idea to keep Seamus Liam O'Brien away from the Mona Lisa. Otherwise the St. Paul man might be tempted to paint a bright rubber duck somewhere on the famous painting and add his signature to da Vinci's. O'Brien is a scenic artist, sign painter and muralist with fine arts degrees from Ohio State and the University of Florida. For the past few years he's also been conducting a quirky sort of performance and visual art project.
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startribune.com | Richard Chin
St. Paul is finally getting its own cat tour. A couple of pet-loving residents of the saintly city are organizing the first of what they say will be the annual Hamline-Midway Cat Tour. Organizer Libby Cook, a Hamline-Midway resident, and her friend, co-worker and neighbor Candace Frost said they expect to have about 20 cat viewing stops on the June 14 tour, including cats in windows, cats in backpacks, cats on leashes and free rovers.
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startribune.com | Richard Chin
But mostly it's kind of fun to see modern science being practiced firsthand. I feel like I'm doing my small part to advance knowledge. And sometimes I learn a little bit about myself. For example, according to my DNA, about a quarter of my ancestry comes from southwestern and northeastern Europe. And I likely have wet ear wax and an aversion to cilantro. Sleep logs and stool samples I'm not alone in offering myself as a guinea pig.
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govtech.com | Richard Chin
Aren’t we all morbidly curious about the undiscovered country, as Hamlet put it, from which no traveler returns? Except this time, happily, I would get to return because it would be a virtual death, an experience in a VR studio that’s part of the university’s Health Sciences Library system. (TNS) — When the University of Minnesota offered to let me experience what it’s like to die, naturally I said yes.
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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