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Sam Dunning and Stimson Snead talk jibs, self-acceptance, and the power of entropy.
- Added: Mar 13, 2024
- Length: 22:42
John Wilson, Head Berry and Founder of the Razzie Awards, talks dodging bullets, buying a sense of humor, and ruining a perfectly bad movie.
- Added: Mar 09, 2024
- Length: 20:00
Magical witchcrafted brews and tunes that hit the voodoo jukeboxes 1957-1971. The Witches Brewpub, where it is always midnight and always happy hour.
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Death is a scary to talk about. But some people in Minneapolis meet up every month to talk about just that. It’s called Death Cafe, and KFAI's Matt...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 06:03
Sex is hard to talk about. We often speak about it so indirectly. In Minnesota, many of us are even more adept to tiptoeing around the issue. But S...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 07:42
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
‘The Seven Wonders of the World’ *sounds* impressive, but could they do with an update? That was the mission of the mysterious Swiss-based ‘New 7 W...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:15
Who invented the hamburger? It’s almost impossible to know, given that mincemeat has been consumed all around the world, and for centuries – but Os...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 2
Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:30
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 26:21
Danny Bell tells his daughter Sydia about trying to teach her mother to drive.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 03:00
- 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
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 52:04
A childhood story from Kim Weitkamp, and a reader's theater telling of Peter Pan.
Bought by KSJE, KKRN, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WYAP and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 6
Too hot, too cold, just right. Americans may differ on where to set the dial, but they agree air conditioning is integral to modern life, a phenome...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 04:34
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
On the next episode of the show, a generation gap story about students and their teachers. Bill Harley with "Happy Birthday Mrs. Nottingham" on the...
- Added: Mar 23, 2022
- Length: 53:02
- Purchases: 6
Today on Culture Clique we talked with author and publisher Jenny Baertsch and illustrator Sara Pientok for the signing and launch of their first b...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 11:53
Neil Kramer and his ex-wife, Sophia Lansky, talk about their unique quarantine experience together.
- Added: Feb 18, 2022
- Length: 02:46
What happens when your ideas about what makes a successful person are tied up in your ideas about your sister, who as you describe, is blonde, beau...
Bought by KTXK, KKRN, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and KSJE
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 5
One of the greatest joys in this life is the joy of our relationships. In today’s stories, you'll hear a Japanese story from Donald Davis about a m...
- Added: Dec 28, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 4
With the recent controversy surrounding Dave Chapelle’s Netflix special, The Closer, and his jokes about trans women and their genitalia, freelance...
- Added: Nov 15, 2021
- Length: 02:59
