MinneCulture Podcast

Series produced by KFAI Minneapolis

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The best of KFAI's MinneCulture series.


46 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: Reporter Matthew Schneeman poses in front of the runestone at the Kensington Runestone Museum, Credit: Mattew Scheeman
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 25:48
Caption: Eva Gay
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 18:19
Caption: Workers at Concord Meat in South St. Paul, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
We often talk about meat-eating like it’s a part of our DNA. Our ancestors ate meat, and therefore, so do we. But what we have on our dinner plates...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 22:45
Caption: Peter Jesperson's record room, Credit: Todd Melby
Peter Jesperson is a music legend. Born in Minnesota, Jesperson was a seminal figure in the Minneapolis punk and new wave scene of the 1970's and 1...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 23:01
Caption: Tommy Mischke in studio, Credit: KSTP
Echoing through the late-night airwaves and disrupting the status quo of the talk format, Tommy "TD" Mischke was a thorn in the side of executives ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 43:08
Caption: Dudley Riggs in 2012, Credit: Sheila Regan
"Instant Theater" was a term that Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop theater came up with in the 1950s. The former circus and vaudevil...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 17:42