February 14, 2002 - MPR’s Marianne Combs profiles acclaimed playwright Lee Blessing's new play Thief River, which portrays two gay men growing up in rural Minnesota who choose very different paths in life. Over the next fifty years they remain in contact; their experiences reflect the changing attitudes toward homosexuality in America.
February 15, 2002 - Art and music from African American roots
February 15, 2002 - Rochester's underground film scene heads to the mall this weekend. Local film-makers will screen their work over the next few days at the Happy Penguin Film Festival. For the first time in six years the festival will be shown on the big screen at a shopping mall theater. Mainstreet Radio's Laurel Druley reports.
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February 19, 2002 - MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews co-author Paul Larson about "Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone," a Minnesota Historical Society publication. In interview, Larson highlights accomplishments of the noted African American architect.
February 19, 2002 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews author Paul Nelson about his book "Fredrick L. McGee: A Life on the Color Line."
February 22, 2002 - The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will play all nine of Beethoven's symphonies during its 2002-2003 season. SPCO Music Director Andreas Delfs tells MPR's Euan Kerr that he decided to do what he is calling the "Beethoven project" after conducting Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 with the orchestra. The season, announced by the Orchestra Thursday also includes four world premieres, and a new seating arrangement at the Ordway.
February 25, 2002 - In her new novel "Fingersmith," author Sarah Waters tells a tale of deception and love in Victorian England. This is the third novel she has set in this time period, each dealing with an issue of the time, prostitution, pornography and the treatment of women in asylums. The term "Fingersmith" was a name given by the Victorians to petty thieves. Sarah Waters told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr "Fingersmith" grew out of her own fascination with what were called the "Sensation" novels of the 1860's. They were a genre of immensely popular books featuring melodramatic and highly complicated plots.
February 25, 2002 - In her new novel "Fingersmith" author Sarah Waters tells a tale of deception and love in Victorian England. This is the third novel she has set in this time period, each dealing with an issue of the time, prostitution, pornography and the treatment of women in asylums. The term fingersmith was a name given by the Victorians to petty thieves. Sarah Waters told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr "Fingersmith" grew out of her own fascination with what were called the "Sensation" novels of the 1860's. They were a genre of immensely popular books featuring melodramatic and highly complicated plots.
February 26, 2002 - The Fargo North High School Orchestra plays a very special concert…on borrowed instruments. The students' own instruments were destroyed in a bus fire as the orchestra was returning from performing in the Twin Cities. Orchestra Director Dan Italiano says the bus drove over a mattress in the middle of the road. He says no-one realized the mattress was hooked up underneath the bus.