September 7, 1997 - Since the T-V networks are touting their new fall line-ups--we thought it would be a good time to talk about Fall Films. Weekend Edition Film Critic Rob Nelson says film fans will be pleased with this seasons crop of local screenings.
September 7, 1997 - Today is your opportunity to peek inside the beautifully restored homes in the Ramsey Hill section of St. Paul... through The GABLES, GARDENS AND GHOSTS tour. The Ramsey Hill neighborhood is the second largest contiguous Victorian District in North America. I had the opportunity to preview two of the homes with the Ramsey Hill Association's--Maryanne O'Brien and Tom Zahn--the former preservation planner for the city of St. Paul. We began our tour near Summit and Arundel at the stately Victorian home of Sara Kinney...a long time Ramsey Hill Resident.
September 8, 1997 - Fifth graders across the state this week are deciding which instruments they'll play in band and orchestra classes. Minnesota Public Radio's Art Hughes reports professional musicians in Rochester are helping students make what can be a life-changing decision. (sound..clarinet) In a room filled with squeaks and whistles, clarinettist Richard Halleen zeroes in on Sasha Case's first few notes.
September 9, 1997 - The business of buying and selling art has traditionally been the reserve of the priviledged few. For an artist to come to the attention of art collecting circles, he or she has to show their work, and galleries are generally reluctant to take a chance on an unknown talent. The Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis is taking steps to make the art marketplace more accessible by opening up an annex devoted to new emerging artists and clientele who will find their prices a little easier to swallow. Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Roberts reports.
September 12, 1997 - Slavenka Drakulic, the Croatian journalist and commentator, is out with "Taste of a Man", a bizarre love story. Drakulic is well-known for her New York Times opinion pieces, and her post-Iron Curtain books "How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed" and "Cafe Europa: Life After Communism". "Taste of a Man" is not necessarily about the war in the Balkans. It involves a woman who has a torrid three-month affair, and when her lover is about to go back to his family, she kills him. And eats him. Then scours her apartment. She's heard all kinds of interpretations of "Taste of a Man"; the religious, the psychological, and the political. They may all be valid, but Drakulic herself thinks the cannibalistic Thereza may be a parallel with the amoral killer in Camus' "The Stranger".
September 12, 1997 - When we report on a labor shortage in outstate Minnesota, we're usually not talking about Rabbis. But for eighteen months, Temple Israel in Duluth had no rabbi. After Rabbi Sue Levy resigned for medical reasons, the synagogue depended on rabbinical aides to help with funerals and bar and bat mitzvahs, and flew in a rabbinical student from Philadelphia twice a month to help with services. Now, that student, Amy Berstein , has completed her degree, and has accepted a full-time permanent job in Duluth. That means she's one of two rabbis in outstate Minnesota. Berstein's formal installation ceremony will be held this evening:
September 15, 1997 - For almost twenty years, Leonard Maltin has been as important to the couch potato as a big bag of Fritos. As film critic for Entertainment Tonite and editor of the "Movie and Video Guide," Maltin may be one of the most influential critics around. He's out with the 1998 version of the "Movie and Video Guide," which concisely reviews more than 19,000 movies, and he was in town last week.
September 15, 1997 - "Useful" isn't a word most artists commonly hear when someone describes their work, but it's the ideal word to Wadena-based artist and designer Arthur Apissomian. He is the creator of a new material called PermaProse, a combination of glossy magazine paper and various adhesives tough enough to make furniture. With this new material, he turns what could be your average table or canister into an everyday work of art. Minnesota Public Radio's Gretchen Lehmann reports.
September 17, 1997 - The Twin Cities rock radio dial is shuffling again. In a week or so, X-105 will switch to something between the current hard rock format and the old alternative rock format of the former Rev-105. Meanwhile, 93-7 The Edge will get harder-edged, perhaps in a bid to compete with Rock-100, which starts with Howard Stern in the morning and plays hard rock the rest of the day. The Edge and 105 are owned by Cap Cities ABC, which also owns the giant KQRS. Chancellor Broadcasting recently bought Rock-100, which used to be BOB, the country station. Chancellor owns six other stations in the market. Robert Unmacht, editor of the M-Street Journal, a weekly broadcast trade newsletter, says while the reshuffling is possible because of the radio aglomeration in the Twin Cities, what's happening is the legacy of old FCC actions conflicting with the market's growth.
September 17, 1997 - Daniel Pinkwater has several fan clubs. Childless adults know him for his public radio commentaries. Parents know him as one of the nation's premiere kids' book writers. Kids know him becuase they eat up his books. But there's another audience, one Pinkwater is aiming at with a new compilation of his young adult novels: adults who read his young adult books when they were young adults but who still dip into them now and again. Pinkwater says he writes for the kid he was.