March 13, 2025 - With the marking of the fifth anniversary of the COVID pandemic, The Minnesota Now team spent a month going out across the state and asking listeners and readers to share their story and experiences from that dramatic period in our collective recent history.
August 2, 2005 - MPR’s Marianne Combs profiles painter, and now composer, Matthew Smith. Combs talks with Smith about the physical and mental transition from painting to composing. Combs also interviews other artists about Smith’s work.
February 6, 1987 - MPR’s Beth Friend reports on the enduring appreciation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie books. Friend interviews Minnesota author Emilie Buchwald and three North View Elementary School students on what makes Wilder’s work fascinating.