April 20, 2001 - Annie Humphrey's CD "The Heron Smiled" is getting great reviews. She discusses how she got to where she is and how to juggle that with her family responsibilities. Paul Zaloom, who plays Dr. Beakman on Beakman's World, a science show on PBS for children, is performing a show at the Walker Art Center called Velvetville.
April 20, 2001 - If you're driving around Minnesota, you're likely to see a good number of old barns... some dating back to the late 1800s. Tomorrow the Minnesota Historical Society will present a workshop on fixing up old barns. Mary Humstone is the founder of Barn Again!, a national program designed to promote barn restoration. She says interest in restoring old barns is increasing, because fixing up a barn can be cheaper than building a new one... and because people feel a connection to these buildings.
April 20, 2001 - "Two Sisters of the Piano" is performed by the Eye of the Storm Theater in Minneapolis, two sisters in Cuba who are in house arrest in Cuba. "Minnesota Below the Surface" is an exhibit of paintings featuring sealife. Stuart Davis puts out a new CD.
April 24, 2001 - Online music sharing service, Napster, is going to start using new technology that will identify songs not by title, but by pitch. They are going to use this to get around the court order to not provide copyrighted songs.
April 26, 2001 - Here's a heads-up for people heading to downtown Minneapolis tonight: there may be an unusually large number of nuns along Hennepin Avenue. Maybe an increase in folks wearing lederhosen. The reason? They'll be there to sing along with Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music." After sold-out runs in London and New York "The Singalong Sound of Music" is opening in Minneapolis tonight. The idea is simple. The full-length feature has the song lyrics subtitled on the screen, so the crowd can sing along. The show is drawing cult audiences, many of whom dress up as their favorite characters, hence the nuns. Tom Lightburn is the producer of the show, and he's come by the studio this morning. Tom Lightburn is the producer of the Sing-Along Sound of Music. The show opens tonight at the Historic State Theatre in Minneapolis with a benefit for the Minnesota Orchestra and the Minnesota Film Board. It will then run from May 3 through May 6.
April 27, 2001 - As part of Mainstreet Radio series "Broken Trust: Civil Rights in Indian Country,” MPR’s Dan Gunderson reports on free speech within the Indian reservation.
April 27, 2001 - Guthie presents the modern Hester Prine in their production of "In the Blood"
April 27, 2001 - It's been three years since a tornado wiped out Saint Peter's famous canopy of trees. This weekend, a new playground is going up to mark the spot where one of the town's huge trees grew. More than a thousand volunteers will transform an empty spot into a scene out of ninetieth century river town life. Mainstreet Radio's Erin Galbally reports:
April 27, 2001 - "The Laramie Project" highlights the different media perspectives to the Matthew Sheppard murder. Reedie makes etchings of exotic flowers. Nathan Johnson, the curator of Under Cinema, about underground film.
May 1, 2001 - Family members of children killed at Columbia claim that video games like Doom inspired the violence at the high school.