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A preview of Choreographers' Evening 2014 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with Kenna-Camara Cottman and the dancers of In New Company.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
Cuban-born pianist Nachito Herrera moved to Minnesota in 2001, and quickly made a name for himself as a jazz player, composing and performing and w...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 1
Thanks to a quirk of history — and a love of bananas — New Orleans has had a Honduran population for more than a century. But that population explo...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 12:42
Ask someone from out of state to describe Minnesota and you’ll probably hear a lot of “Minnesota Nice,” "uff dah’s" and "you betcha’s." Scandinavia...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
Fewer Americans are watching movies in theaters—ticket sales fell by 11 percent between 2004 and 2013. For those attending the cinema, just about e...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 03:46
Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:22
Minneapolis-based collage artist Zach Collins loves to collaborate. During the past three years he's put together two books showcasing his team spi...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:23
Readers form book clubs. Bowlers join leagues. What do motorcycle enthusiasts do? They ride, of course. Some head to Sturgis, South Dakota every ye...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:04
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
The things in Shakespeare the make us laugh, and the things that don't anymore -- and why.
- Added: Aug 05, 2014
- Length: 27:40
When Shakespeare’s work is translated into foreign languages, does it cease to be Shakespeare?
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 24:11
Vivian Howard is the chef at Chef and the Farmer in the small Eastern North Carolina town of Kinston. She also "co-stars" with her husband Ben Knig...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 2
The history of Shakespeare outdoors
- Added: Jun 18, 2014
- Length: 31:16
The Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, welcomes temporary residents, but for the first time this year, they are offering a month exclusively f...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio
- Added: May 24, 2014
- Length: 13:29
- Purchases: 2
One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Teresa Goff has been following an ancient network of trails used by the coastal First Nations to trade gleetna, or grease. Gleetna is made from ool...
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 13:21
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 15:29
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned.
“It happened very quickly,...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:39
Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:13
Charlotte, North Carolina-based historian Tom Hanchett speaks about the ever-evolving South, especially as it relates to food, from a booth in El P...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Mar 09, 2014
- Length: 17:54
- Purchases: 2
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 13:47
- Purchases: 2
