May 18, 2001 - This Sunday Open Book in Minneapolis celebrates its first anniversary, and a very successful year. Co-owned by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Loft Literary Center and Milkweed Editions publishing company, Open Book is the nations first center of its kind: a place to read, write and bind books. At the center of the Open Book building white panels furl out from the handrail of a large spiral staircase. Sculptor and Book Artist Karen Worth, who helped design the staircase is writing a series of words onto scrolls of paper attached to the panels - she says the staircase is not only a physical connection between the floors of the building but also a metaphorical connection between the different book organizations working in the building.
May 18, 2001 - This Sunday Open Book in Minneapolis celebrates its first anniversary, and a very successful year. Co-owned by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Loft Literary Center and Milkweed Editions publishing company, Open Book is the nations first center of its kind: a place to read, write and bind books. Minnesota Public Radio's Marianne Combs reports: { At the center of the Open Book building white panels furl out from the handrail of a large spiral staircase. Sculptor and Book Artist Karen Worth, who helped design the staircase is writing a series of words onto scrolls of paper attached to the panels - she says the staircase is not only a physical connection between the floors of the building but also a metaphorical connection between the different book organizations working in the building.
April 27, 2001 - "The Laramie Project" highlights the different media perspectives to the Matthew Sheppard murder. Reedie makes etchings of exotic flowers. Nathan Johnson, the curator of Under Cinema, about underground film.
March 16, 2001 - On Word of Mouth, MPR’s Chris Roberts provides a radio guide to the local arts. This episode includes Yoko Ono, Peter Ostroushko, Popular Creeps, and an arts round-up.
January 11, 2001 - Who IS Charles Keating? Well, he's an actor, but after four decades on the stages and soundsets of the world, he's played so many roles for so many different and seperate audiences, he's become many things to many people. His largest audience was his Emmy Award-winning portrayal of the villanous Carl Hutchins in the tv soap opera "Another World". He's done many films, including "The Bodyguard" and "The Thomas Crown Affair". But he's also in TV dramas including "Brideshead Revisited" and been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Now he is completing a circle of sorts by returning to the Guthrie Theater to play the love struck butler Malvolio in Shakespeares "Twelfth Night" opening for a second run this week. Keating was a Guthrie Company member for three years starting in 1968, working under Sir Tyrone Guthrie, an experience he told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr is almost impossible to describe. Outro: Charles Keating who is again tying on the yellow garters to play Malvolio in the Guthrie Theater's remounting of it production of "Twelfth Night" which runs through February 4th. He talked with Word of Mouthy's Euan Kerr
January 8, 2001 - Acclaimed local photographer Wing Young Huie is being recognized at the Ordway Center with a U.S. Bank Sally Ordway Irvine Award for his installation of "Lake Street USA." Huie spent four years taking photographs on and around Lake Street which were then blown up and displayed outdoors on storefronts, bus shelters and buildings. MPR’s Mary Stucky met with Huie as he began installing these enormous portraits, and filed this report.
November 7, 2000 - Advances in computing technology continues at a tremendous pace, producing ever more spectacular graphics and animated images which amaze and confound. Tomorrow in Minneapolis those on the cutting edge of the industry will gather at the eleventh Minnesota Electronic Theatre showcase to show the latest uses of technology in film, advertising, and interactive games. Things may be good in the industry but Minnesota Public Radio's Marianne Combs reports local talent is struggling to get business.
March 17, 1998 - What makes a friendship? Many are based on shared values, interests, sometimes simply living in a shared space. But Peace Corps volunteer Marianne Combs finds it difficult to make friends among the women in her new home...a village in the west African nation of Ivory Coast. She's just seems too alien. Here is Marianne's most recent "Letter from Africa."
March 3, 1998 - Today is the 37th anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps. Minnesotan and Peace Corps volunteer Marianne Combs is stationed in a poor village in the African country, Ivory Coast. In her latest "Letter from Africa," she describes how hard it is to introduce western health care to people who have to choose between vaccinating a child or buying food at the market.
November 6, 1996 - Perhaps the closest race in the state was for Minnesota's first district congressional seat. Democratic challenger Mary Rieder worked her way up the polls in the last days of the campaign, but not enough to take the seat from incumbent Republican Gil Gutknecht. Gutknecht received 53 percent of the vote, compared to Rieder's 47 percent.