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A Reckoning for Juneteenth

Juneteenth is officially a national holiday in the US. All this happening while groups throughout the country try to ban critical race theory in schools. We dig into just some of the nuances of this topic on this week’s Counter Stories.


The Granite City Radio Theater Season 9 Episode 3 with Special Musical Guest Keith Secola

WE GOT OUR LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE BACK! That’s the big deal here!

Well, special musical guest and Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame inductee Keith Secola is a very big deal, too, but he would certainly agree having that live audience was a big deal! House band Collective Unconscious will (and did) back Keith up on that.

Other big deals of the show include Shade’s Brigade getting weird in St. Cloud with an innovative performance, the Honorable Mayor’s new poem and his joy at being able to look at people, and Dan Barth’s Trivia Challenge challenging the challenge which is decency with the live audience scoring points along the way as Heidi Jeub defeated Eric Webster and Keith Secola to be our Season 9 Champion!!

Also a big deal, but not nearly as a big deal as the other big deals were a look behind the scenes at writing the show, a journey into the seedy world of Farmer’s Market crime, and more products you might like to buy from SuccesssCo!

Being back to a “normal” radio theater experience was incredible and it’s all because of YOU! You are the big, big deal here, dontcha know?!!


The Untold Story of St. Cloud Police Officer Ryan Priebe’s Award of Officer of the Year 2021 from the Minnesota Peace and Police Officer Association

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with St. Cloud Police Officer Ryan Priebe as he has been awarded the Minnesota Peace and Police Officer Association’s Officer of the Year for 2021.

His nomination comes partially from an incident back on June 15, 2020, when he was shot in the hand by a suspect, and it comes partially from his work with the COP House in St. Cloud. The true untold story is how a moment from last summer’s unrest in Minnesota and Officer Priebe’s work at the Community Outpost intertwined in a way that prevented a bad situation from becoming a horrible situation and arguably prevented the violence seen in the Twin Cities from reaching St. Cloud.


Live from Minnesota: Grupo Mio

Tejano means “Texan” in Spanish. It’s also a music genre that blends US American and Mexican traditions. Minnesota’s own Tejano band, Grupo Mio, performed “Live from Minnesota” May 8, 2021 at St. Paul Neighborhood Network for KFAI’s MinneCulture.

Support for Live from Minnesota on KFAI comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


Centerstage Minnesota, June 11, 2021

Centerstage Minnesota features Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and world music including Diet Folk, Grandma’s Boyfriend, The Hold Steady, Roma Di Luna, Baby Boys, Sugar on the Roof and more.


Centerstage Minnesota, June 4, 2021

Centerstage Minnesota features Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and world music including The Suburbs, Keith Secola, Kiss the Tiger, She Shells, Clearwater Hot Club, Kind Country, Useful Jenkins and more.


Collectors Edition

It’s the Special Collectors Edition of Stay Human today — collectors of pillowcases, of bullets, wind-up toys, scrap lumber, rocks. You name it, somebody collects it. The Queen of Flamingos, Carolyn King, reveals her sources, and Charlie Parson describes the collection of a life time. Words and music for spirit and courage.


Magnetic North – “Retro for Radio”

WTIP commentator, Vicki Biggs Anderson is producing a “Retro for Radio” segment of her Magnetic North feature. Vicki is selecting and reading from her columns written in the 1990’s for the Cook County News Herald.
This column was titled “My Bobbins and Tub Runneth Over”. Enjoy!


CHOOSING TO BE FREE

We are not truly free when we are trapped by hatred and prejudice. What supports us being more free of reactions, blaming and instead choose our responses.


GETTING PERSPECTIVE

We need to conscious about what we pay attention to. If we only focus on what is wrong, we lose perspective.


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