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Two-hundred years ago, an Italian aristocrat traveled to the Northwoods of present-day Minnesota in an attempt to make a name for himself. He wante...
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 06:58
Over 14,000 patrons have signed up for their first library card since Jay-Z's exhibit came to Central Library in mid-July. We talk to Brooklynites ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 07:49
Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that s...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 13:57
There’s a little popcorn shop in the Nokomis neighborhood of south Minneapolis where you can get popcorn, banter, and half off double the normal pr...
- Added: May 30, 2023
- Length: 07:10
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Didn’t know we celebrated such a thing? You’re not alone. Lesser known than Black History Month or ...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Apr 22, 2023
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Although 2019 was not a good year for Haley, this episode actually features one of her strongest allies throughout bad years and good ones. A frien...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
In April of 2022, Haley took a bold step and decided to quit her job; a job as a public radio host and a job she loved. As she tried to make sense ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
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
When lyrics have no meaning, singing becomes pure emotion.
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 04:40
Memorabilia is about a grown man reconnecting with rituals and memories from his childhood. It's about some good old sports collectibles. And my an...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 01, 2019
- Length: 07:19
- Purchases: 1
Artipoeus visits Swedish artist Henrik Stromberg's "Echoes in Dust" at Galerie Aplus in Berlin.
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 20:00
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack finds the city of St. Cloud inund...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
Every week, Cracker Barrel provides 4 million Americans with a studied version of down-home Southern food and hospitality. The dumplins and the chi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 26:03
- Purchases: 2
While strongly rooted in bluegrass, old-time, and folk music, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades produces a sound that draws on the vaults of music collect...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 9
Academy Award and GRAMMY winning artist, Melissa Etheridge, will take the stage to perform songs from her new album, This is M.E., as well as some ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2016
- Length: 59:22
- Purchases: 10
The 2016 US election isn't going away anytime soon, so let's seek refuge in etymology. Consider the linguistically appropriate age of a senator, an...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 36:05
The Wailin’ Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse – three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound. Starti...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 59:31
- Purchases: 12
The Blue Canvas Orchestra and special guests open up the show in the first half followed by Jamaican and Australian musical group Nattali Rize & Notis
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 12
With a Cuban-American lead singer, garage band ferocity, an intense live show and a deep love of both romance and pure country laced with polyrhyth...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 11
An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :58
Children's author Maurice Sendak was a big collector of Disney paraphenalia
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :59
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :59
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
Hunter S. Thompson had his first run-in with federal agents as a young boy during the Louisville summer of 1946
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 01:00
