October 8, 2010 - Arthur Hoehn, MPR's first classical music announcer, joins Midday to discuss his 40-year career in radio. He is best known for hosting "Music Through the Night."
October 12, 2010 - MPR’s Euan Kerr interviews Darryl Holter, a developer living in Los Angeles, who has returned to Minneapolis to stage a CD release concert at Palmer's Bar for his recording "West Bank Gone." Holter lived in the neighborhood in the late 1960's. At the time it was a musical hotspot attracting international attention.
October 13, 2010 - Staff at Minneapolis-based Coffee House Press are celebrating today after one of its titles "I Hotel" was nominated for a National Book Award for Fiction. The book by Karen Tei Yamashita tells the story of the Asian-American community in northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Coffee House founder and publisher Allan Kornblum, who signed the author about 20 years ago, says the nomination is a huge honor. This is really a thrill to have this form of recognition for a writer who we've stuck with and who has stuck with us, to watch her talent to continue to grow and see this form of recognition for really her magnum opus.
October 14, 2010 - American RadioWorks' Stephen Smith and Kate Ellis join Midday’s Gary Eichten to talk about their new book, Say it Loud!: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity.
October 18, 2010 - MPR’s Chris Roberts looks back at the music career and influence of local rapper Eyedea, who died on October 16th, 2010. Segment includes various interviews and music clips.
October 18, 2010 - Writer and columnist Jim Klobuchar talks about the return of Brett Favre as quarterback and the Vikings chances for a Super Bowl victory.
October 21, 2010 - At a special Fitzgerald theater event, best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith joins Garrison Keillor on stage to talk about literature and the life of a writer.
October 22, 2010 - On this Midday call-in program, former Vice President Walter Mondale joins MPR’s Gary Eichten to take questions about his new political memoir, The Good Fight: A life in Liberal Politics. The book traces Mondale's career from a young Minnesota attorney general to Vice President. While personal, it's also the story of half a century of progressive politics.
October 22, 2010 - MPR’s Chris Roberts reports on Minneapolis indie rock band STNNNG (pronounced 'Stunning'). Roberts interviews band members and a music critic about the group’s blistering sound and album “The Smoke of My Will.”
October 29, 2010 - Bemidji State University officials say American Indian enrollment is up about 15 percent from just a few years ago. Some credit BSU's American Indian Resource Center with helping Indian students succeed on campus. Anton Treuer is an Ojibwe language professor at BSU. Treuer says the center provides Indian students a supportive and culturally familiar place to network with others.