Talking Volumes 26th season announced for Fall 2025
July 29, 2025
Talking Volumes, a collaboration between MPR News and the Minnesota Star Tribune, returns for a landmark 26th season at the historic Fitzgerald Theater.
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Q&A: With ‘Chunkadelic,’ Nur-D doubles down on joy and resistance
July 23, 2025
Minnesota rapper Nur-D discusses his new album “Chunkadelic,” a genre-blending, deeply personal project born from a Reddit insult, exploring joy, resistance and staying true to himself in a conformist industry.
The sound of silents: musician Katie Condon accompanies silent films with live music
July 23, 2025
Accompanying and dramatizing a silent movie with live, original music is somewhat of a lost art, but St. Paul musician Katie Condon is keeping this niche tradition alive.
‘Girls belong in baseball’: Minnesota Twins-sponsored 14U team heads to nationals
July 21, 2025
The Minnesota Twins are the first MLB team to sponsor a youth girls baseball team. Players from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are headed to Nevada for the national tournament.
'Tough choices ahead' at MPR, APM after Senate approves public media cuts
July 17, 2025
The U.S. Senate has approved a rescission bill that cuts $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over the next two years. More than $17 million of that had been earmarked for 16 organizations in Minnesota, including MPR News and its sister music stations The Current and YourClassical.
Minnesotan taps Ojibwe culture, Anishinaabe spirit to turn wood into art
July 14, 2025
Donovan Dahmen creates large collages of wood at his home in Grand Portage. He sees his art as a way to share knowledge of Ojibwe culture and spirituality. “I believe the wood tells me what it wants to be,” he said.
Minnesota State Fair announces new foods, vendors for 2025
July 11, 2025
This year’s list of new food offerings at the Minnesota State Fair features food combinations you never imagined — and flavor mash-ups you never knew you’d want to try.
Sen. Klobuchar defends public media on Senate floor: 'We have never seen this as a partisan issue'
July 10, 2025
Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar took the Senate floor Wednesday to speak against President Donald Trump's $9.4 billion clawback of funding from foreign aid and public media. The bill passed in the House last month and is headed to the Senate for a vote before a July 18 deadline.
Remembering longtime Minnesota Orchestra violist Kenneth Freed
July 9, 2025
Freed, who died unexpectedly on June 29, joined the Minnesota Orchestra as a violist in 1998.
‘Someone’s got to help’: Minnesota volunteers give injured, orphaned animals a chance
July 7, 2025
Trained wildlife rehabbers work to save injured and orphaned wildlife. Most get no pay. They scrape by on grants and help from local volunteers, doing the work for the joy of giving animals a chance to return to the wild.