Enjoy seasonal favorites and a variety of Christmas and Hanukkah programs! Here is a day-by-day guide to all of our special holiday programming for the 2022 season, from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve.
From the MPR Archive, circa 2013: In this episode of Appetites, MPR’s Tom Crann talks with Minnesota poet and writer Heid Erdrich about the local food movement. Though seen as a relatively recent phenomenon, Erdrich argues in a book that the local food movement goes back to the indigenous populations of our region. Her book "Original Local" details the concept.
YourClassical MPR's fun, free event Bring the Sing is returning to Rochester! Minnesota Public Radio, Rochester Civic Music, Rochester Downtown Alliance and Threshold Arts are partnering to invite everyone in Rochester and southeast Minnesota to Bring the Sing at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Peace Plaza. Join with friends, family and neighbors in singing along with local musicians LaSonya Natividad, Dianna Parks, Mitch Stevenson, Eric Straubmuller and Chris Wessel in a mass rendition of many festive, well-known winter and holiday favorites.
Listen each hour as The Current takes you back to the sounds of a specific year with a carefully curated list of the best songs. They’ll also reexamine some deeper cuts as we look back on what happened that year in music, pop culture and the world.
Rammy Mohamed used to make clothes in her basement. Now she’s opened a highly visible boutique in the St. Paul skyway.
This two-hour collection of works is filled with a festive American flavor of music to celebrate family, feasting and the harvest themes. It's ready when you are.
The Thanksgiving “pilgrim and Indian” stories that many of us were taught as children perpetuate harmful stereotypes and whitewash a painful history of violence and colonization that continues to impact Indigenous communities today. How can we have a more honest conversation with our children about this history? On this episode of Early Risers, host Dianne Haulcy speaks with early childhood educator and Dakota language activist Vanessa Goodthunder.
Here are the bars, restaurants and venues that are airing World Cup games and hosting watch parties for soccer fans. - FIFA World Cup U.S. and Wales tie 1-1 in crucial opening match - Related Soccer fans gather in the cold to cheer on U.S. men's team in World Cup - World Cup stunner Saudi Arabia beats Messi's Argentina 2-1
After an active couple of weeks this week will be quiet. A clipper will bring light snow to northern Minnesota late Monday night into early Tuesday and a system on Thanksgiving stays mainly south. Temperatures will be warming to above normal this week also. More on the forecast via Updraft
It’s time to start thinking about Thanksgiving and The Splendid Table’s annual show Turkey Confidential! Listen to MPR News on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24, 2022 to hear guests Claire Saffitz, author of Dessert Person, Rick Martinez author of Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico, Chef, and Chopped judge Maneet Chauhan, and our very own Jesse Sparks, host of The One Recipe podcast, and of course host Francis Lam! Turkey Confidential 2022 Recipes for Thanksgiving