May 4, 2012 - Morning Edition’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Ojibwe author Anton Truer about his book "Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask."
May 8, 2012 - MPR’s David Cazares profiles Twin Cities jazz guitarist Zacc Harris, co-leader of several Twin Cities jazz projects, including The Zacc Harris Group, which has released “The Garden” CD.
May 8, 2012 - St. Paul writer Julie Schumacher's new teen novel "The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls" chronicles a long hot summer where members of a mother daughter book club get way more than they bargained for when they sign up for what they thjink is just a way to make summer reading assignments more fun. Schumacher specializes in books for and about adolescent girls. She also reveals in the novel her "Rule of 3,000" about the number of books we are likely to read in a lifetime, and how it's important to make wise book choices.
May 10, 2012 - Penumbra Theater is presenting James Baldwin's The Amen Corner at the Guthrie. Director Lou Bellamy says he's waited 30 years to do the show, but now he has all the elements he needs, including his own perspective.
May 14, 2012 - MPR’s Euan Kerr profiles Twin Cities native Maya Washington, who uses a short film she created about a deaf performance poet to challenge elementary school students to think about - and perform poetry.
May 15, 2012 - MPR’s Curtis Gilbert presents part one of a Special Report on storm preparedeness in the Twin Cities. The reports follows a simulated tornado track through the metro. The massive tornado outbreak that struck the Twin Cities area in 1965 is used as an example of what could occur again.
May 15, 2012 - MPR’s Curtis Gilbert presents part two of a Special Report on storm preparedeness in the Twin Cities. The reports follows a simulated tornado track through the metro. The massive tornado outbreak that struck the Twin Cities area in 1965 is used as an example of what could occur again.
May 16, 2012 - MPR’s Dan Gunderson reports on pollutants from the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico showing up in Minnesota birds that migrate to the gulf.
May 17, 2012 - MPR’s Chris Roberts reports there's a growing feeling that another golden age in local music might be upon us. Segment includes interviews with venues, music editors, artists, and fans.
May 18, 2012 - Is life better for an African American artist today living in the Twin Cities than it was twenty or thirty years ago?