May 30, 2005 - Popular Twin Cities author Lorna Landvik is trying something new in her novel, Oh My Stars. For the first time she's set a story outside of Minnesota and in a period before she was born. It's the depression-era story of Violet Mathers, an 18 year old Kentucky girl who's been beaten down by life. Just as she reaches her lowest point, she winds up traveling the Midwest with a trio of musicians.
June 1, 2005 - All Things Considered’s Tom Cran talks with Mo Chang, the charter school liaison and special project coordinator for St. Paul Public Schools, about the closure of Wat Tham Krabok and what life was like in the camp. As a child, Chang lived in Thai refugee camps. In 2004, she was part of a group that traveled with St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly to learn more about life at Wat Tham Krabok.
June 2, 2005 - MPR’s Bianca Vazquez Toness reports on the growing influence of women in the Twin Cities hip-hop music scene. They call themselves B-girls. That's B for “breakdance,” and that's what some of these female hip-hop artists do, but others use verse, spray paint, and music to tell their story.
June 3, 2005 - Minnesota Republican Congressman Mark Kennedy has been on a trip to Asia this week. During discussions with Chinese leaders, Kennedy says he focused on what the U-S government can do to help Minnesota businesses make more money in the world's biggest market.
June 4, 2005 - Minnesota Republican Congressman Mark Kennedy has been on a trip to Asia this week. During discussions with Chinese leaders, Kennedy says he focused on what the U-S government can do to help Minnesota businesses make more money in the world's biggest market.
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June 7, 2005 - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play - one of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson. This archive recording is a dub of a commercial recording onto reel to reel tape.
June 8, 2005 - A Sawyer County, Wisconsin, Judge holds pre-trial hearings on the Chai Vang murder trial. One of the motions is to move the trial of the man accused of killing six hunters last November.
June 9, 2005 - What would you do if you woke up one morning, and didn't recognize where you were? Not only that, you didn't know WHO you were? A new Lee Blessing play at the Guthrie Lab in Minneapolis explores the fluid nature of memory.
June 9, 2005 - MPR’s Bob Kelleher reports that a Sawyer County judge heard pre-trial motions, setting the stage for the September date on Chai Vang's murder trial which will be held in Hayward, Wisconsin. Vang is the Twin Cities Hmong man charged in the shooting deaths of six Wisconsin deer hunters last November, and the wounding of two others.