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A naive insurance agent from Wisconsin (Ed Helms) finally grows up at a big time Cedar Rapids insurance convention.

Jonah Lehrer’s book on creative thinking — the processes by which creativity and innovation happen — is must-reading for all creative minds.

How do you replace a toilet? Watch helpful video instructions, then get your wax ring and Johnny bolts ready.

Scott Walker compares himself to Vince Lombardi, but could he be more like Ray Scooter McLean?

Solitaire, Klondike, Patience — can playing cards alone help release your mind’s creative potential?

Racine businesses, kringle bakeries, bars, restaurants, arts and entertainment, beaches and recreation on Milwaukee Public Television.

Job creation in America is the job of city leaders on the local level, says Gallup CEO Jim Clifton.

James Canupp singing Looking for a City, plus other versions of the hymn by Vestal Goodman, Jimmy Swaggart, etc.

Gasoline prices were lower when President Obama took office. Can you remember why the price of gas was so low?

In Chronicles: Volume 1, Bob Dylan gives us enjoyable autobiography, from early 1960s New York to recording Oh Mercy in New Orleans.

Ryan Gosling stars in Lars and the Real Girl as a delusional man in love with a sex doll.

Jim Carrey stars as Steven Russell in this wild, true story — which feels less true because it stars Jim Carrey.

Grover Norquist, with his Americans for Tax Reform pledge, is a rehash of the Grimm tales story of Rumpelstiltskin.

From Roughing It, a Mark Twain quote about how he tried surfing in Hawaii in 1866.

Philip Seymour Hoffman gives us several strong moments of humans close to the breaking point.

Coal ash spilled into Lake Michigan after We Energies construction at Oak Creek, between Milwaukee and Racine.

John Coltrane’s The Ultimate Blue Train, Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, and The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill are all $5 each.

TV shows that both feature imagination, writing, acting, and production — and are both rooted in the world of fairy tales.

Dry Bones: The Book of Ezekiel is the basis for both a short animated film and the spiritual song that became a 1940s hit.

Michael Lewis on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Fresh AIr with Terry Gross, and Charlie Rose, promoting his new book Boomerang.