October 19, 2000 - Dennis Miller comes off as elitist, but Briticanica.com thinks of it as parlor games. "Annotated Miller" is a webpage at Britanica.com that deciphers and explains what he aims at in his quirky remarks.
October 19, 2000 - From Bob Dylan, to Prince, to the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnnesota has a long and varied musical tradition. An exhibit opening this weekend at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul takes a look at that tradition. The exhibit is called "Sounds Good to Me." It's designed to tell stories about Minnesotans and their connections to music. Benjamin Filene (file-EEN) heads the exhibit team that spent nearly three years planning and designing the exhibit. He says there was an enormous amount of material to work with.
October 19, 2000 - From Bob Dylan, to Prince, to the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota has a long and varied musical tradition. An exhibit opening this weekend at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul takes a look at that tradition.
October 20, 2000 - "To Fool the Eye" is the story of a prince who falls in love with an opera singer. The Jerome Foundation sponsored five artists to create art for display.
October 23, 2000 - MPR’s Chris Roberts reports on the announcement of Andreas Delfs as the new Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra music director. Delfs replaces the recently departed Hugh Wolff.
October 24, 2000 - When author Michael Chabon, wanted to find a way to write about an era that he treasured he turned to comic books: All his life, he has been drawn to the fashion, music, writing, politics and social history of the late thirties and forties known to comic book fans as "The Golden Age" when Superman, Batman and others became American icons. "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" is Chabon's ode to this often disparaged artform. His heroes are two cousins, an American hoping to make it big in comics, and a Czech immigrant fleeing the Nazis. Together they invent , "The Escapist", a masked hero battling evil across the world. The horrors of Nazi Germany effect them directly, but also fuel their creative fires as they use "The Escapist" to convince the public that the US needs to join World War Two.
October 24, 2000 - Computers have changed the film industry with their ability to create mind-bending special effects. They have also irrevocably changed another important film feature: the titles. Design Specialist David Stevens argues film titles are hugely important in creating the the mood of a film, and that importance is growing. He has researched thousands of films and tonight at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis he'll present some of the best in "For Openers: the Art of Film Titles". He'll also talk about the well known title sequences of the pre-computer age. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr how the opening of the Gregory Peck classic "To Kill A Mockingbird" sets up the film through close-ups of a toybox. David Stevens, Curator of "For Openers: the Art of Film Titles, being presented this evening at 7 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
October 25, 2000 - In his new book "Singing My Him Song" Malachy McCourt, brother of Frank of "Angela's Ashes" fame, tells more of the wild Irish immigrant story he began in his first memoir "A Monk Swimming". It's also the story of him coming to terms with his alcohol abuse and how he came to work with his brother on the hit show "A Couple of Blaguards". Malachy McCourt says as he looked for the reasons he drank, he focused on his anger at his abusive father.
October 26, 2000 - Artists at the Minnesota Institute of Arts in Minneapolis have removed two chickens from an exhibit after receiving threats from animal rights activists. The exhibit, An Acre of Art, aimed at exploring the relationship between people and land. A central feature was a long, narrow chicken coop mounted on the wall surrounded by a guilt frame-- with two live chickens inside. The coop also contained a web-cam which provided a contant live feed of the birds on the internet. Today, the coop is still there... as is the camera. But the chickens are gone. Mark Knierim is one of two artists who designed the exhibit. He's on the line now. BACK ANNOUNCE: The rest of the exhibit, An Acre of Art, is still open to the public. You can see it at the Minnesota Institute of Arts in Minneapolis, on their website at www dot artsMIA dot org, or on an acre of land outside Monticello, which will be open November 4th and November 18th.
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