This election season MPR News is bringing you Talking Sense, an online and in-person platform to help you have difficult conversations, despite political differences.
George Morrison’s commitment to creating a robust community for Native artists is still felt today. The late painter and sculptor was from the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe.
Help The Current curate the ultimate Valentine’s Day playlist with the Top 89 Love Songs. Vote for your 10 favorite love songs of all time, and they’ll tally the votes and count them down on Wednesday, Feb. 14.
Composer Peter Schickele, aka P.D.Q. Bach, died Jan. 16 at 88, leaving behind a legacy of musical brilliance, ingenuity and hilarity. He was a fixture at Minnesota Public Radio over the years, including co-hosting a fun 1993 New Year’s Eve radio party with Lynne Warfel. Listen now!
This year, MPR is bringing the ultimate winter Minnesota moment to the Sauna Village at Malcom Yards during The Great Northern Festival. Pair cold winter temps, with steamy sauna sessions all while vibing to your favorite music from The Current and YourClassical MPR and curiosity-quenching stories from MPR News via the MPR Cabin Steam Stream. Because, if you ask us, it doesn’t get much more Minnesotan than enjoying Minnesota Public Radio...in a sauna.
Ely, perhaps best known as a gateway to the Boundary Waters, celebrated getting frozen this past weekend, “Frozen the Musical” that is. The local high school beat out fierce competition to be the only Minnesota community to get the rights to mount the hit show.
On what would have been King’s 95th birthday, many celebrated the civil rights leader, while also reflecting on what his words reveal about the march for justice still ahead.
The Current and Fat Tire are pleased to present Winter Dig Out with three bands: Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Kiss The Tiger and Friko at the Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge in Minneapolis on Saturday, Feb. 24. No tickets will be sold for this event; the only way in is to win. The Current is pleased to offer a ticket giveaway to this event. Enter by noon (CST) on Monday, January 22, for a chance to win a pair of passes to this concert.
The group of seven elected officials is majority women of color, and all the women on the council are under the age of 40, making them the city’s most racially diverse and youngest council ever.
More than 1,300 canines competed for American Kennel Club awards at the Land O’Lakes Kennel Club Dog Show this weekend. See the pups looking pretty in our photo gallery.