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MinneCulture explores the people, culture, and art that are inspiring, shaping, and changing Minnesota every day. We go beyond the gallery walls to tell stories about artists and people who live, work and create here.

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The Phantom Caller of the Twin Cities

Posted March 21, 202400:23:31

KSTP-AM is one of Minnesota’s oldest and formerly most successful radio stations. By the 90's, it had been mostly forgotten, as fans flocked to FM....

Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco

Posted March 14, 202400:30:47

Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in 1998. The biggest lawsuit in the state’s history forced the tobacco industry to take...

Saving Minnesotan Old Time Music

Posted March 7, 202400:32:24

Mike Sawyer fell in love with old folk music in his 20s, picking up the banjo and playing at festivals and jams around the state. But after a while,...

When Danger Strikes in the Boundary Waters

Posted February 29, 202400:28:31

Every year, people on a canoe trip to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) need to be rescued from a dangerous situation. In modern...

Lost in the Songs

Posted February 22, 202400:25:59

Peter Jesperson is a music legend. Born in Minnesota, Jesperson was a seminal figure in the Minneapolis punk and new wave scene of the 1970's and 1980's....