February 12, 1997 - Paul Wellstone is planning to retrace Robert Kennedy's tour of the South to focus attention on the plight of the poor. The tour is also prompting questions about whether Wellstone aspires to higher national office. Al Eisele says Wellstone's candidacy would probably be met with surprise on the hill. Eisele is editor of "The Hill," a political newsletter in Washington D.C. He also served as an aide to Vice President Mondale.
February 13, 1997 - Midday rebroadcasts award-winning MPR documentary Song Catcher, Frances Densmore of Red Wing. Following documentary, MPR’s Gary Eichten holds a discussion with guests Marcia Anderson, chief curator and head of the Museum Collections Department at the Minnesota Historical Society; and Faith Bad Bear, assistant curator of Ethnology at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
February 14, 1997 - MPR’s Bill Wareham reports on Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton State of the City address. Sayles Belton described Minneapolis as a strong, vibrant place, but also stated a need of stronger efforts to reduce gang violence. In addition to crime prevention, the mayor also highlighted education and economic development efforts.
February 14, 1997 - In this age dominated by electronic communication, many people say telling and listening to stories, is a meaningful way to connect with other people. They say storytelling is a simple pleasure in an often hectic world.
February 14, 1997 - Of course today is Valentine's Day, and love seems to be in the air. If you'd like to continue your celebration into tomorrow night, you might want to check out the Walker Art Center's 4th Annual LOVE BASH. This year the show features performers all over the age of 40. This fact is the inspiration behind the show's title--"Mid-life Love Bash!" Leslie Ball hosts this ecletic evening. She proudly reveals she is over 40--42 to be exact. She says she's happier in this new decade and also has a new outlook on love.
February 14, 1997 - Strike the flint of holocaust revisionism, the belief the holocaust never happened, against the steel of the free speech rights guaranteed by the first amendment, and you set off the sparks that fly in the Illusion Theater's latest production. "Denial" is a play written by former Minneapolis resident and Jerome Fellowship winner Peter Sagal to explore his own Jewish identity and the limitations of the First Amendment.
February 14, 1997 - When commentator Gary Eustice drives to and from work, each day's commute provides a new and unique story, all he has to do, is look.
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February 17, 1997 - Midday presents a rebroadcast of a Fresh Air program of debate on racial politics between playwright August Wilson theater critic Robert Brustein. The event was entitled On Cultural Power.
February 20, 1997 - MPR's Bill Wareham takes a look efforts by Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton to spend $35 million to help finance a Target store and other development on the south end of Nicollet Mall. The two-story Target would anchor a 14-story office and retail complex on the 900 block of Nicollet. Meanwhile, a block away the University of St. Thomas plans to expand its graduate school campus and link it to a K-12 magnet school also on the drawing boards.