NATHAN KITZMANN
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The final paragraph, 208 columns later 
I can’t remember exactly why I started writing this column four years ago. I’m sure I needed the money (know so, in fact), and I was desperate for the attention I thought it would afford me.
By NATHAN KITZMANN , August 24, 2011
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Forget government: It’s all up to us now
Last week, I was shaken out of my peaceful summer dream by a headline.
The stock market dropped over 600 points on Monday, signaling a possible slide into our 10th Great Recession in two months.
I scanned down the page, looking for some good news, but the dream didn’t return.
By "Nathan Kitzmann" , August 10, 2011
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Summer love: She was worth the wait
Somewhere between feeling sorry for myself and single-handedly taking down The System, I came to a place where I realized I was enjoying this summer.
By Nathan Kitzmann , August 03, 2011
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That sound of the social fabric ripping is a little bit funny
Washington, D.C. — President Barack Obama has officially declared today, this July 11, 2011, a National Day of Laughter.
The proclamation comes in a time in desperate need of good cheer. The United States government is ideologically stretched to its breaking point, and teetering on economic collapse.
By Nathan Kitzmann , July 13, 2011
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First-ever High Plains Fest opens Friday
People who were sad to see the 10,000 Lakes Festival go on hiatus in 2010 after seven years will be relieved to know that there is a new alternative music fest coming to town.
By Nathan Kitzmann , June 29, 2011
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Anyone can have 15 minutes of fame
Andy Warhol once said that “in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
This must have seemed like nonsense in the 1960s, when there were only a handful of household names and the boundary between “celebrity” and “mere mortal” was drawn clearly in the sand.
June 29, 2011
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Column: No reminders: Let past columns rest
“I want to be forgotten, and I don’t want to be reminded.”
That is the opening line to one of my favorite songs of late, “What Ever Happened” by the Strokes. I sang along to it on the way to church one day last week, mimicking the singer’s jaded, tired-sounding voice all-too well.
By Nathan Kitzmann , June 22, 2011
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Kitzmann column: Sarah Palin ‘allegedly’ makes stop in DL
DETROIT LAKES, MN — Sarah Palin’s One Nation bus tour made an accidental stop in Detroit Lakes last Wednesday, offering locals a chance to catch a glimpse of the controversial politician in action.
Allegedly, Palin arrived in the small, Northern Minnesota town after spotting a rogue male grizzly bear in the woods from her tour bus. She ordered her driver to pursue the animal, detouring from her planned route between the One Nation tour stops of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Fargo, North Dakota.
June 08, 2011
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College is nothing George can’t handle
After all that, this was it.
My classmates and I had just graduated, had just crossed the gymnasium stage into a new chapter of life. We will eventually many forget many of the kids we went to high school with, as we grow older and start living our futures in new, separate worlds.
By Nathan Kitzmann , June 01, 2011
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Statistically, failing class just didn’t add up
I have always blamed my mediocre math ability on heritage or being a “creative,” right-brained, left-handed individual. My mind wasn’t designed for math, I tell myself. There is no use force-feeding it. Plenty of people are happy to spend their lives crunching numbers and solving mysterious algorithms, without my help.
By Nathan Kitzmann , May 18, 2011
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Is rejoicing in the streets appropriate?
Ten years ago this September, I sat in a classroom to watch my childhood end in a pile of carnage, death and mass hysteria. I was too young then to understand much, but I knew that the people who made the towers come down were evil, and the ones who cheered to see so many lives lost were just as bad.
By Nathan Kitzmann , May 11, 2011
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Nathan Kitzmann column: Day the world ends
It wasn’t the bombs dropping or the women wailing or the ocean rolling in that told me this was, indeed, the end of the world.
April 27, 2011
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Column: Short attention spans lead to fast track life
Watch TV. Get bored.
Is that my guitar I see in the corner, waiting patiently to be fingered? Sounds like an idea. I strum a B, an A, and a D minor, and decide that I am no good.
By Nathan Kitzmann , April 20, 2011
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The honest emotion behind classical music
Growing up, classical music was a large part of my life. It just wasn’t a particularly pleasant one.
To me, it meant Saturday afternoon chores: there was always some Brahms or Schubert to accompany the long hours of scrubbing orange scum off the toilet or sweeping the kitchen. The only genre I hated worse was Cajun and Zydeco, which my dad always played when it came time for my monthly assigned room-cleaning.
April 06, 2011
From candy to college, hard decisions are everywhere, for any age
About 10 years ago — when I wore black round-rimmed glasses and dressed like Harry Potter every Halloween — I went to the theatres and saw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first in the series.
March 30, 2011
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