May 18, 2012 - Is life better for an African American artist today living in the Twin Cities than it was twenty or thirty years ago?
May 25, 2012 - Essayist Peter Smith shares a poem on mowing the lawn. It captures the essence of the eternal struggle of adults getting kids to actually do the task.
June 5, 2012 - Howard Sinker, digital sports editor for Star-Tribune.com, gives an appraisal of the potential picks for the Minnesota Twins in the Major League Baseball Draft. In 2011, only one major league team finished with a worse record than Minnesota and because of that year's dismal performance, the Twins will have the second overall pick in the amateur player draft.
June 15, 2012 - Father's Day is this Sunday. The upcoming holiday got storyteller Kevin Kling thinking about how fathers and sons communicate. He sent us this essay.
June 20, 2012 - Craig Sanders, a retired meteorologist who lives in Duluth, talks about his experience with the Duluth flooding, bailing out water from his house. He also comments on the job meteorologists have to do.
June 20, 2012 - Rob Skutevik, a pastor of the Fond du Lac Community Church, talks about his experience with the Duluth flooding. He and his family left with the water lapping up his front steps, and those of the church next door.
June 20, 2012 - Nicole Kor, a student at University of Minnesota Duluth, talks about escaping from her basement apartment last night.
November 5, 2012 - MPR’s Tim Pugmire reports on the Minnesota Voter Identification Amendment that is on 2012 ballot. Report includes commentary from both proponents and opponents of amendment.
November 13, 2012 - We continue our look at titles from the Library of Congress' 88 Books that Shaped America list with Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."
March 12, 2013 - MPR’s Euan Kerr profiles the Penumbra Theatre staging of Spunk, three short stories of Zora Neale Hurston adapted by Jelly's Last Jam writer George C. Wolfe.