Broadcast Love with Minneapolis Public Radio at the Twin Cities Pride Festival at Loring Park in Minneapolis! Stop by our booth at 15th and Willow on June 29 and 30 where you can purchase exclusive MPR Pride merchandise, including fanny packs and our popular “Broadcast Love” t-shirts. As a bonus, we will also be giving away plenty of MPR swag. So find us there, or catch us in the parade on the 30th!
MPR Connects is traveling to Greater Minnesota! On June 27, MPR News host Angela Davis will be live on stage with program director Stephanie Curtis in Duluth. They will share their favorite and most memorable stories and challenges as journalists and let you know what their most coveted interview would be. We hope to see you there! The event is free, but registration is required.
Pride Month is a wonderful time to celebrate our unique identities and to reflect on how pride and authenticity show up in our lives. We asked classical musicians in the LGBTQIA community about their thoughts on Pride. The answers we got were incredibly diverse and thought-provoking. For some, Pride means dignity, the opposite of shame; for others, it means surviving despite the odds. All the artists we spoke to said authenticity and identity directly connected to their musicmaking. Explore this special series, Proud to Be — listen to the one-hour special above and the extensive individual segments below — and help us celebrate the lives and accomplishments of LGBTQIA artists in classical music.
Where were you on June 12, 2018, the day a mottled brown raccoon climbed the 25 stories of the UBS Tower in downtown St. Paul? Six years ago today, the #mprraccoon became a viral sensation and stole the hearts of millions online as people gathered to watch the critter climb the building for nearly 24 hours.
Siblings Forest Clarke and Anne Downs grew up feeling like twins born two years apart. But when Clarke came out, a chasm grew in this once close relationship. For Pride Month, MPR News is interviewing people about how the experience of coming out created a family rift — and how it was resolved. These conversations are part of their Talking Sense project, which helps Minnesotans have hard conversations, better.
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What if the wind and the sun had a friendly competition to see which one was the strongest? That’s exactly what happens in The Wind and the Sun, the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime – with storytelling by Julie Amacher, illustrations by Nancy Carlson and music by Ludwig van Beethoven.
MPR Connects is traveling to Greater Minnesota! On June 6, MPR News host Angela Davis will be live on stage with correspondent Catharine Richert in Rochester. They will share their favorite and most memorable stories and challenges as journalists and let you know what their most coveted interview would be. We hope to see you there!
You’re invited to join us at Surly Brewing Co. this Thursday, May 30, for an evening of music and fun. The Current's host, Zach McCormick will provide the soundtrack and Jade Bird will perform a live set. The Current’s Happy Hours are free and open to everyone.
For the first time in four years — after the COVID-19 pandemic and then a $9.3 million reconstruction project — public tours of the Soudan Underground Mine in northeast Minnesota are poised to start up again on Memorial Day weekend.