December 15, 2000 - The Nutcracker phenomenon is examined. Christ Faust and Mike Lynch are featured.
December 15, 2000 - Chris Faust and Mike Lynch collaborate for an exhibition. Faust specializes in night photography and Lynch paints night scenes at night. The Bobs, created by cartoonist Gary Larson, put on a concert. "The Green Bird" is playing at De La Jeune Lune.
December 15, 2000 - Money for park projects in Minneapolis won out over some city councilmembers' concerns about unmet infrastructure needs as the council narrowly approved the city's one billion dollar budget for 2001 last (thurs) night. Minnesota Public Radio's Art Hughes reports.
December 18, 2000 - Lots of people decorate their homes with lights this time of year. Some take this holiday tradition to the extreme. MPR’s Jon Gordon visits a couple of folks who go beyond the usual Christmas decorations, and into the realm of what some people call the purest form of art.
December 19, 2000 - If you're in the midst of a cookie disaster or your fudge isn't looking so good, help is just a phone call away. For the past 11 years, thousands of frenzied cooks have called the Land O'Lakes Holiday Bakeline for tips on how to fix runny frosting, speed-thaw a frozen turkey, or jazz up mashed potatoes.
December 20, 2000 - Author Martin Goldmith says he owes his life to an orchestra that disappeared long before he was born. During the 1930's in Germany the Kulturbund orchestra, staffed entirely by Jewish musicians was used as a Nazi propaganda weapon. Goldsmith, the former host of National Public Radio's Performance Today, tells the story of the Kulturbund in his book "The Inextinguishable Symphony". He told Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Crann it is part of the very personal story of his family. Until recently he didn't even realize how his parents met. And they almost didn't. His father, a flutist, was within days of fleeing the country.
December 20, 2000 - Voices of Minnesota with legendary Guthrie Theatre costume designer Annette Garceau and Dick Goebel, a founder of America's Second Harvest, the country's largest food bank system. Also, Carl Anderson on his experiences in World War II and singing on an Armed Forces Christmas Eve NBC broadcast in 1941.
December 21, 2000 - MPR’s Dan Olson interviews Minneapolis-based harpist Nicholas Carter on Paraguayan style Christmas music.
December 22, 2000 - The art in Minnesota isn't always made by Minnesotans. This show talks about artists who migrated to Minnesota for various reasons.
December 22, 2000 - Puppet theater produces "Winter Dreams," a story about what animals dream. Quidity, at the Orbit Gallery, has a wide variety of work contained within.