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Caption: Alondra Garza creates art with hot cheetos, Credit: Sheila Regan
Minneapolis-based artist Alondra Garza has been adding a little crunch to her recent body of work. And that crunch comes in the form of hot cheetos.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 06:13
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
Caption: Fans at the Beatles only concert in Minnesota, Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In the summer of 1965, the Beatles were the hottest act in the world. And for the first — and only time — John, Paul, George and Ringo were coming ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 35:39
Caption: HUGE Improv Theater has purchased the Art Materials building and will transform the south half of the building into a theater., Credit: Sheila Regan
After learning that their landlord had donated to a former KKK leader, HUGE Improv Theater knew they needed to move. So how did a small arts non-pr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 05:24
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Tonight on The Sound we bring you the debut album, Auditory Pleasure Pods To Satisfy Your Lust For Nihilism from Swashbuckler. The Winona band is c...

  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 57:51
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Tonight on The Sound we bring you the debut album EXTEND, from Aura Vortex recording artists Robot Slide. This Minneapolis based band is comprised ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:05:09
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Tonight on The Live Feed we revisit this year's Boats and Bluegrass festival to hear more from Armchair Boogie. The group started out in Stevens Po...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 50:38
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Today on Art Beat we're talking with Sharon Mansur, the first ever guest curator for the Frozen River Film Festival 2022. She shared more about thi...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 26:41
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Tonight on The Sound we follow some rising stars through their explosive musical journey over the past year. During the quarantine times of the COV...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 58:32
Caption: Comedian Tyler Fischer turns his bedroom into an online venue., Credit: http://TylerFischer.com
How standup comedians and venues in New York City are coping and adapting to comedy in quarantine without their audiences.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:40
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Summer in Winona is a great time for all kinds of events and festivals, and one of our favorites is the Great River Shakespeare Festival. Today on ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 56:12
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On this episode of Art Beat we enter a fantasy realm of magic, swords and dragons with Minnesota author James Petrillo. Petrillo’s most recent nove...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 44:44
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On this episode of Art Beat we talk to two cast members from the play Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight. We learn about the ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 31:34
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A renegade California group creates pop-up swings throughout the city.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Tabah, Credit: Logan Erickson
On this episode of The Live Feed we go back to the 2018 Midwest Music Fest to catch up with the band Tabah. The Minneapolis based band has been des...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 34:26
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we present the April 2018 installment of Over The Back Fence. Over The Back Fence is a community variety show rec...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:00
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we catch up with Minneapolis based band 4 on the Floor. The bands brand of stompin' bluesy rock gets their audien...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 38:42
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On this episode of Art Beat, we take you to Island City Brewing for Battle of the Brushes, a live painting showdown. Battle of the Brushes is a liv...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 16:01
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we take you to the Black Sheep Poetry Slam at the Midwest Music Store in downtown Winona, MN. We’ll hear various ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 16:27
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On this episode of Art Beat, we talk to filmmakers at the 30 Second Film Festival in Winona, MN. The event is a free mini film festival consisting ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 12:04
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This episode of The Live Feed we take you to Boats and Bluegrass for The Lowland Lakers, a Minneapolis based folk trio that blends together folk, b...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
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This episode of Culture Clique we sit down with Frank Anderson from Temple Harmonics to explore sound therapy. Frank uses sounds from ancient Himal...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 15:53
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Designer Manuel Cuevas crafted iconic outfits for Gram Parsons, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. At StoryCorps, he tells his daughter Morelia about h...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WOUB, WGUC/ WVXU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Hans Walters and his wife, Martha Hiatt
Hans Walters talks to his wife, Martha Hiatt, about going from heavy metal frontman to shark researcher and supervisor at the New York Aquarium.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Dog is having a lot of fun looking back right now, but not without a twist. The band released their first live record, a snapshot of previous ...

Bought by KUCB, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 3