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MSP Film Society Builds a Permanent Home for Cinema with Lease of St. Anthony Main Theater
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: MSP Film Executive Director Susan Smoluchowski and Programming Director Jesse Bishop outside the Main. The marquee reads "Coming Soon: MSP Film at the Main.", Credit: Cyn Collins
The MSP Film Society is celebrating its 60th year with a new adventure: taking over the St Anthony Main Theatre, and relaunching as MSP Film at The...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 06:31
KBFT Native Art Fest - Ruth Porter
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: KBFT Native Art Fest 2021
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This Native Fest Art Series shares the interviews provided by the artists that shared their talents and background with the community of Nett Lake,...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 10:02
Country Nation
From: Ford Hatchett
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Country music has long been popular in the American South but is gaining popularity in the North, a place with more country roots than you may think.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 05:45
Logan Lucky
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:24
Rotunda Restoration (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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When Donald Trump takes the inaugural stage this month, he’ll be doing so in front of the newly restored Capitol Dome. But just over a hundred mile...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
Allan Wolper talks with Gregory Pardlo
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, debunks the theory that African American fathers are disinterested parents. Pardl...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
Minneapolis Institute of Arts celebrates 100th anniversary
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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2015 marks the 100th anniversary for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The museum is well known for its free admission. But it wasn't always that ...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
Making a book from beginning to end, with one of San Francisco’s last remaining bookbinders
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Stepping inside the Taurus Bookbindery is kind of like stepping back in time.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
Oakland Museum takes 'Vinyl' off the shelf
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: ‘Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records’ at the Oakland Museum of California is open now until July 19th., Credit: Ashleyanne Krigbaum
Walking into ‘Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records,’ one of the newest exhibits at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), feels like hanging o...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 1
Super Awesome: Giant Robot's Cultural Evolution
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Giant Robot at OCMA
It used to be that the terms “nerdy” and “cool” were at opposite ends of a spectrum. Collecting comics was for losers, listening to punk rock was f...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:42
Halloween ... Past and Present.
From: Todd Crotty
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Ever wonder how the Halloween we Americans celebrate came to be? In search of answers reporter Todd Crotty ventured into the past to unravel the m...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 04:08
Culturology: Lyric Center for the Arts - Virginia, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Lyric Center for the Arts - Virginia, MN
As the 100th Anniversary of the Lyric Center for the Arts passes the Lyric Center celebrates new life and a bright future. Maddi Frick recently tou...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
Fate of Southern Theater Uncertain
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Caption: The Southern Theater's financial situation is forcing the cancelation of select performances.
The Southern Theater in Minneapolis was recently Found to be mismanaging funds designated for dancers and choreographers who received McKnight fell...

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:59
Fiber Art of Kristen Anderson
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Discussed in this piece are an Arctic map made partially of Arctic muskox fur, a venison-keeper made with materials from deer, and many more pieces...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and mnartists.org


  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 2
Chatting with the Central Minnesota Arts Board
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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Art can happen anywhere, at any time and by anybody -- the Central Minnesota Arts Board is one vehicle that has a profound impact on the arts in ou...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 28:46
Generations: Cherokee language through art
From: Jordan Nelson
Caption: A piece of artwork depicting the Cherokee character "ma.", Credit: Cherokee Heritage Center
The Cherokee Heritage Center is using art to help pass on the Cherokee language.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2009
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 3
Hidden Histories: Lewis Hine
From: Jack Johnson
Series: Hidden Histories
Caption: Hidden Histories
From 1908 to 1917, Hine took thousands of pictures for the National Child Labor Committee, exposing the dangerous conditions that children endured ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2009
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
North Hollywood Arts District Suffers
From: Leslie Griffin
Series: Los Angeles features
Caption: Cella Gallery logo, Credit: www.cellagallery.com
While the NoHo arts district still boasts a vibrant theater district, the visual arts are suffering, with the closing of six art galleries in North...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2009
  • Length: 02:52