For a few short years, St. Paul was the Blue Cheese Capital of the World. In the season 6 finale of the MinneCulture podcast, Tony Williams takes us on a tour through the secret history of moldy cheese in Minnesota. It’s a story full of twists and turns including libidinous sheep farmers, Nazis, and cave explorers.
Grab some crackers and join us! You can listen to the MinneCulture podcast on Spotify, Apple podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts, or right here on KFAI.
Support for MinneCulture on KFAI has been provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
KFAI’s Sheila Regan talks to Red Wing Arts, an organization that recently opened its new Clay & Creative Center, as it keeps the city’s clay legacy alive. She also meets other arts advocates and pottery lovers in the city.
Support for MinneCulture on KFAI has been provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
This week, Sam speaks with Dr. David Walk, a neurologist at the U of M Medical School and M Health Fairview, will be with us to speak about ALS. He is also a part
of ALS Association Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Chapter.
Disability and Progress-June 16, 2022-Dr. David Walk on ALS Disability and Progress
Mother Alfred Moes was an immigrant from Luxembourg, a woman religious, and the founder of two Franciscan congregations. She was also the first person to advocate for the hospital in Rochester that would become Mayo Clinic. While her visionary leadership proved essential to the founding of St. Mary’s Hospital, her strong influence often put her in conflict with church leadership.
In this episode of the MinneCulture podcast, KFAI’s Julie Censullo tells the story of how Mother Alfred came to Minnesota after clashing with a local Bishop and how a natural disaster gave her an idea for a hospital in Rochester.
Support for MinneCulture on KFAI has been provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
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Chaka Mkali, aka I Self Devine, is a rapper, visual artist and racial justice trainer working in the Twin Cities. He’s also the June 2022 featured artist with Hennepin County Library’s Vinyl Revival, charged with hand-picking vinyl album selections for the library’s listening room at the Minneapolis Central location. As part of Mkali’s library residency, he’s leading a virtual discussion and spinning his vinyl picks on June 16.
Mkali joined Terrell LaMarr on Radio Pocho to talk about vinyl collecting, musical influences, crate digging etiquette and more. Listen here:
Dance instructor Mollie Krengel had grown tired of the judgement and competition pervasive in corporate health club classes. So she broke out of the gym and took her following of dancers outside, leading classes at the Walker, an animal sanctuary, a parking ramp in Minnetonka and other public places.
The result was Wildhive, a free-form group dance experience.
Unlike the gym classes where dancers follow along to the exact movements of the instructor, Mollie encourages dancers to move in their own ways, with the occasional suggestion.
“Wildhive is a form of dance therapy,” says Mollie. “It is igniting a sense of adventure and bringing community together through the conduit of music and dance.”
Support for MinneCulture on KFAI has been provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
This week, we speak with Dr. Mona Minkara. Dr. Minkara is an assistant professor in the
Department of Bioengineering at NorthEaster where she heads the combine (computational modeling for Biointerface Engineering Lab. Dr. Minkara believes that vision is more than sight.
Disability and Progress-June 9,2022-Dr. Mona Minkara Disability and Progress
A series of wildfires made headlines across Minnesota during the drought-plagued summer of 2021. Among them was the massive Greenwood Fire. This wildfire burned nearly 27,000 acres and led in part to the closure of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
And while some view them simply as destructive forces of nature, wildfires played a significant role in shaping what are considered today to be some of the most stunning landscapes across the most visited wilderness area in the nation.
In this audio feature, producer Joe Friedrichs explores the history of fire in the Boundary Waters, and why a team of researchers are currently trying to learn from the past to help create a better future for the forests of this remote wilderness.
Support for MinneCulture on KFAI has been provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
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