Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
January 10, 2001 - Future Tense-- DigiScents smelling through the internet is a product that is demonstrated at the gadget trade show in Las Vegas.
January 10, 2001 - More than a thousand band members gathered at Mille Lacs Tuesday to hear their new chief executive's State of the Band address. Melanie Benjamin defeated former executive Marge Anderson last June. Her campaign stressed accountability and reform. Yesterday's speech amplified those ideas. Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Hemphill has this Mainstreet report. { Benjamin's central theme was courage. She reminded the attentive audience of the courage shown by past generations of Ojibwe. They were warriors in the past and in more recent conflicts ranging from the Great War to the Gulf War, and they defended their language, their religion, and their treaty rights.
January 10, 2001 - US Forest Service has put a stop to logging old trees, or old growth, in forests. Lee Frelich is the director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Hardwood Ecology and he is being interviewed about this situation.
January 10, 2001 - If you started your morning with a bowl of cereal, you probably didn't think much about where it came from. But artist Jeff Morrison is trying to change that. He has a new exhibit at the A-Z Gallery in St. Paul called Cereal Killer. It looks at where we think our food comes from through the eyes of children. The exhibit looks like a classroom. 158 pictures and essays are taped up on the blackboard. They were created by first and second graders in Minneapolis and in rural South Dakota. Morrison asked the kids to answer the question: "Where did your breakfast cereal come from?" I stopped by A-Z Gallery to take a tour with Morrison, who says there's a purpose behind the art.
January 11, 2001 - A 28-year old man was injured today after he used a parachute to jump off the top of the new Target Headquarters in downtown Minneapolis. William Casey broke his leg when he landed on a rooftop near 10th street and Nicolette. Policed charged him with two Misdemeanor counts of trespassing and disorderly conduct. Casey was BASE-jumping... a sport that evolved from sky-diving during the 70's. BASE stands for Buildings, Attena, Span and Earth- the stationary objects jumpers launch from. Harry Parker is a founder of the Cliff Jumping Association of America- an organization committed to safe and legal BASE jumping. I asked him what it feels like to make a jump:
January 11, 2001 - Who IS Charles Keating? Well, he's an actor, but after four decades on the stages and soundsets of the world, he's played so many roles for so many different and seperate audiences, he's become many things to many people. His largest audience was his Emmy Award-winning portrayal of the villanous Carl Hutchins in the tv soap opera "Another World". He's done many films, including "The Bodyguard" and "The Thomas Crown Affair". But he's also in TV dramas including "Brideshead Revisited" and been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Now he is completing a circle of sorts by returning to the Guthrie Theater to play the love struck butler Malvolio in Shakespeares "Twelfth Night" opening for a second run this week. Keating was a Guthrie Company member for three years starting in 1968, working under Sir Tyrone Guthrie, an experience he told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr is almost impossible to describe. Outro: Charles Keating who is again tying on the yellow garters to play Malvolio in the Guthrie Theater's remounting of it production of "Twelfth Night" which runs through February 4th. He talked with Word of Mouthy's Euan Kerr
January 11, 2001 - It's the quintessential teenage fantasy -- join a rock band, become famous, make a lot of money. Throw in a tragic plane crash and a troup of witty European actors and you have the makings of experimental theater RIPE for the Walker Art Center's annual "Out There" festival. Tonight marks the North American debut for the English-German ensemble, called Gob Squad. Their name refers to a type of schooling fish-- Gob-- that cares for its ailing members. At least that's what the performers say, prefering to ignore the other meaning's of the word which are British slang for both mouth and spit. The Gob Squad's play "Safe", opening at the Southern Theater, has been touring Europe for the past two years. The troup's Simon Will and Sean Patten say "Safe" is part theater, part plane disaster and part rock concert.
January 11, 2001 - Education Week magazine has given Minnesota schools an F rating in the area of standards and accountability. The publication citied inadequete testing and a lack of clear standards as reasons for the rating. Sandy Pappas is the chair of the Senate Education Committee. She says she was shocked by the rating. State Senator Sandy Pappas. Education Week did give the state high marks for student test scores.
January 11, 2001 - Allows voters to vote on whether Minnesota should change the constitution or to stay the same with what the US Constitution states.
January 11, 2001 - MPR's William Wilcoxen reports that a citizens panel put together by the Minnesota Twins to look at the baseball team's future has finished its work. After six months of study, Minnesotans for Major League Baseball says the state risks losing the Twins unless the team gets a new ballpark combined with financial reforms in big league baseball.