MinneCulture Podcast
Series produced by KFAI Minneapolis
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The best of KFAI's MinneCulture series.
46 Pieces
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"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
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
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
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
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
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
Archives tell an important story. The people in them—and the people left out—say a lot about our politics, culture, and consciousness. Today, resea...
- Added: Apr 13, 2023
- Length: 17:12
The Minneapolis Humane Society formed in the late 1800s to protect animals — and even children — who could not speak for themselves. The early year...
- Added: Mar 16, 2023
- Length: 25:16
Ta-Coumba Aiken and Seitu Jones are two Twin Cities-based artists that have international reputations. 40 years ago, the two were part of the vibra...
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 30:48
For Minnesotans, the common loon is more than our state bird. It's a symbol of the beauty of our home. For scientists, the loon's health is also an...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 20:38
For a few short years, St. Paul was the Blue Cheese Capital of the World. In this episode of MinneCulture, Tony Williams takes us on a tour through...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 18:18
You may know that Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota is named after doctor WW Mayo who founded the clinic with his sons. But fewer people know of ...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 13:03
Meridel LeSueur was a herald for a populist vision of America in the first half of the 20th century, especially in the Twin Cities. Despite being s...
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 17:01
Minnesota's moose count is the highest it's been since 2011. But behind that encouraging number, there's a long history of decline. And the people ...
- Added: May 25, 2022
- Length: 22:43
The Twin Cities metro area used to be freckled with Amusement Parks. Minnesotans a hundred years ago flocked, or rode trolleys, to these parks to r...
- Added: May 25, 2022
- Length: 23:23
When Dave Mruz was three, his parents bought him a subscription to Donald Duck comics. Years later, he learned those same comics had been created b...
- Added: Jul 19, 2021
- Length: 18:58
James Garrett Jr. is an architect at 4RM+ULA architects. His family has deep ties to St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. During his childhood, James fel...
- Added: Jul 19, 2021
- Length: 19:20
The plain, uninteresting Mary Fridley Price. Not the sort of girl anyone would notice—except now she'd gone and leapt over a cliff to save her poor...
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 18:43
Anthony Brutus Cassius was questioned by the FBI, fought to be the first Black person in Minnesota to get a liquor license, and his famous greasy b...
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- Added: Jul 09, 2021
- Length: 56:32
- Purchases: 2
When George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police on Memorial Day, pain and anger blasted like a shock wave across the Twin Cities and the world. ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 24:45