Mary Lucia has earned a large fan base with her work as a broadcast personality, writer, actor and voice-over talent. Lucia began her media career doing evenings at REV 105, co-hosted mornings on Zone 105, and hosted a talk show, Somethin' Stupid, on 1500 KSTP.
From 1998 to 2001, she hosted the local music show Popular Creeps, a two-time Minnesota Music Award winner for "Best Locally Produced Show." For her work at The Current, Lucia has been voted best FM radio personality by City Pages seven times. In addition to her radio career, she has also appeared in commercials and in live theater productions.
Lucia likes cats and dogs more than people, wearing dead people's clothes and taking long walks off of short piers.
Ken Burns' latest film, 'Country Music,' premieres on PBS stations on Sunday, Sept. 15. In the run-up to the release, Mary Lucia talks about some of her favorite Ken Burns documentaries, and what makes them so special.
Mary Lucia talks about 'Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,' a new documentary opening Friday, Sept. 6. The film looks at Ronstadt's versatility and determination, two factors that powered her long and successful career.
Returning to The Current studio after three years, Barns Courtney -- accompanied by a full band -- plays songs from his new album releasing on Friday. 'My album's called '404' like the 404 error when a computer's searching for a website that's not there anymore,' Courtney explains. 'I like the metaphor of searching for memories and emotions that no longer exist when you get down to it.'
This last weekend, Mary Lucia revisited a documentary she hadn't seen when it first came out. 'Janis: Little Girl Blue' was produced by Alex Gibney, who has done a whole host of great documentaries, and it goes far beyond what you might already know about Janis Joplin.
'I think people know if they're coming to a Tuxedo show, they're coming to dance,' says Mayer Hawthorne of Tuxedo. The same could be said of their session in The Current studio.
'Blinded by the Light,' a new film inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, opens Friday, Aug. 16. Mary Lucia talks with a colleague who got to see an early screening of the film.
Now, normally Mary comes to you with some specific either documentary, or book, or event, or something she wants to tell you about. But this week is a little different.
Before kickstarting their 2019-2020 tour at the 7th St. Entry today, The Nude Party stopped by The Current studio... clothed.
Releasing Aug. 2, from director A.J. Eaton and producer Cameron Crowe, 'David Crosby: Remember My Name' offers what Mary Lucia describes as a raw and candid look at Crosby's life in music.
Mary Lucia talks about the Netflix documentary, 'ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads,' which explores the life and legend of influential blues musician Robert Johnson.
Mary Lucia talks about seeing the Raconteurs in concert at the phone-free Armory in Minneapolis on Monday. What do you think of the no-phone policy at concerts?
Progenitors of garage and psychedelic rock, The Seeds were hugely influential to punk and modern rock. Mary Lucia speaks with Neil Norman, the director of the documentary 'The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard,' which is showing Wednesday, July 10 at The Trylon Cinema.
Legendary Minnesota band Semisonic are back on the road - and back in the studio. They visited The Current to play three of their new songs and to tell Mary Lucia about their incredible journey.
Mary Lucia sits down with colleague Bill DeVille to compare notes on the Martin Scorsese film, 'Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story,' sorting out the factual details of the film from some of the more playful ones.
A new documentary from Danny Garcia, 'STIV: No Compromise, No Regrets' captures a time in New York's 1970s punk-rock scene but with a distinctly Midwestern flavor.
This week, Mary Lucia talks about 'Carmine Street Guitars,' a documentary by Ron Mann that covers a week in the life of a unique guitar shop in New York City's West Village. 'It's a gentle, wonderful story,' Mary says.
Friday and Saturday, June 14 and 15, Jade will be broadcasting live from the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. Ahead of the weekend's broadcasts, Jade talks to Mary Lucia about the culture of Bonnaroo. 'It seems like everyone is looking out for each other,' Jade says, 'which I appreciate.'
With the popularity of Hozier's song, 'Nina Cried Power,' Mary Lucia watched the Netflix documentary, 'What Happened, Miss Simone?' and shares her thoughts about it with you.
In the run-up to Bob Collins's retirement, Collins and Mary Lucia sat down for a full conversation that reflects on their careers in radio as well as Bob Collins' plans for the future. And of course, there are great memories and lots of laughs from the past 14-plus years of Lucia and Collins' 4:20 p.m. news breaks.
Around the turn of the decade, a number of news breaks featuring Mary Lucia and Bob Collins were gathered and archived as part of an early podcast experiment. Listen again to those great on-air moments, and relive a bit of news history while you're at it.