The Roadhouse

Series produced by WTIP

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Image by: courtesy Buck Benson 

The Roadhouse is an interview and music program that airs live every Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. to kick off the weekend.

WTIP's The Roadhoue is two hours packed with insightful interviews, weekend happenings, local features and toe-tapping music. You never know quite what to expect on the Roadhouse! Funding is provided in part by the MN Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.


984 Pieces

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MPR host Cathy Wurzer on embracing illness and death to live more fully
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Journalist and MPR host Cathy Wurzer and educator Bruce Kramer embarked on a series of broadcast conversations as Bruce dealt with ALS, about how f...

  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 24:03
MN governor bans moose collaring--Ely Timberjay editor explains
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Recently Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton ordered the MN DNR to stop the practice of radio-collaring moose, citing reports that collaring has caused ...

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  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 32:30
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Dr. Robert Sterner, director of the Large Lakes Observatory, on why large lakes are so important
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Just five lakes contain more than half of the Earth's liquid surface fresh water. Dr. Robert Sterner, director of the Large Lakes Observatory (LLO)...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 17:37
Meteorologist Mark Seeley on his updated best-seller, "Minnesota Weather Almanac"
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Mark Seeley, climatologist, meteorologist, and MPR commentator, is just out with the revised edition of his best-selling book, "Minnesota Weather A...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 26:13
The Great Northern Radio Show is coming to Grand Marais
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Aaron Brown is producer and host of the Great Northern Radio Show, a live variety show from KAXE in Grand Rapids. He chatted with WTIP's Will Moore...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 21:46
U of MN sustainability minor encourages big-picture thinking
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Series: The Roadhouse
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The sustainability studies minor available at the U of MN allows students to make sustainability part of any academic program, helping students rec...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 19:57
  • Purchases: 1
EPA ends funding for Lake Superior Binational Forum
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Lissa Radke, the Lake Superior Binational Forum's U.S. coordinator, spoke with WTIP's Ann Possis recently about their loss of funding from the U.S....

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:58
  • Purchases: 1
Michael Monroe's new album pays homage to folk heroes of the 1960s
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Michael Monroe has just released his 12th album, "Folk Legends," a tribute to the heroes of folk who inspired him to make music. He stopped by WTIP...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
David Treuer's latest novel, "Prudence," about love & loss in WWII-era America
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Series: The Roadhouse
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David Treuer, Ojibwe from Leech Lake, now lives in southern California, writing and teaching at USC. He joined WTIP's Buck Benson recently to discu...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 23:28
  • Purchases: 1
Briand Morrison makes music to accompany father George Morrison's art
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Dave TerSteeg & Ann Possis welcomed Grand Portage jazz guitarist and composer Briand Morrison to Studio A recently. He's working on a new pr...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Seth Moore on the state of moose and moose research
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Minnesota's moose are on the decline. Dr. Seth Moore, director of biology and environment with the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, ta...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 17:29
  • Purchases: 1
Karen Babine on her new book of essays, "Water and What We Know"
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Karen Babine, an English professor who grew up in northern Minnesota, is just out with a book of essays exploring the meaning of place and identity...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 17:28
Author John Vaillant on his first work of fiction, "The Jaguar's Children"
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Series: The Roadhouse
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John Vaillant, best-selling author of "The Tiger" and "The Golden Spruce," has turned to fiction with his debut novel about a young man trapped du...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 23:50
Think twice before shopping...for anything...when you're hungry
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Series: The Roadhouse
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We've all heard that we shouldn't shop for groceries when we're hungry because we'll buy more than we need. But now it looks like hunger might affe...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 45:27
  • Purchases: 1
Grand Marais, Minn. wins "America's Coolest Small Town" contest
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Grand Marais is the winner of Budget Travel's 10th annual America's Coolest Small Town contest! WTIP's Ann Possis chatted with Robert Firpo-Cappiel...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 20:31
Light pollution: What it is and why it matters
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Recently the Cook County, Minn. board voted to keep two proposed MN/DOT towers short enough so they wouldn't have to be lighted, and Cook County is...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 21:44
Which dietary supplements can you trust? Mayo Clinic dietitian weighs in
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Recently the NY Attorney General's office uncovered what seemed to be widespread fraud in the dietary supplement industry, accusing four big retail...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 16:43
Author & journalist Damian Fowler on his new book, "Falling Through Clouds"
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Near Grand Marais, Minn., in 2003, a small plane crashed in the forest, taking the lives of the pilot and his sister-in-law, but sparing the two li...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 24:22
  • Purchases: 1
George Morrison retrospective opens Valentine's Day at MN History Center
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Series: The Roadhouse
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George Morrison was an Ojibwe artist from the North Shore who became a major figure in the modern art movement. Kristin Makholm is executive direct...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 20:42
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Matt Miller mixes talk therapy & exercise in 'running therapy'
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Instead of sitting in a room, Minneapolis therapist Dr. Matt Miller runs or walks by a client's side during their session. He talked with WTIP's Bu...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 42:48
  • Purchases: 1