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A Science Challenge: Budgies in a Truck | Newton's Apple

Title: A Science Challenge: Budgies in a Truck | Newton's Apple
Runtime: 4:27
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Thanks Cindy for this brain teaser: if you're driving a truck full of budgies and you hit a bump and all the birds go into flight, how heavy is the truck? Newton's Apple host Ira and physics teacher Jack (making a stellar entrance on a hover craft) - where they talk about how a hover craft will help answer this question.

Hosted by Ira Flatow, Newton's Apple was an American educational television program about science produced and developed by KTCA of Minneapolis–Saint Paul (Now @Twin Cities PBS ) and distributed to PBS stations in the United States that ran from October 15, 1983, to January 3, 1998.

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What Is Body Fat and How Do You Figure Out How Much You Have? | Newton's Apple

Title: What Is Body Fat and How Do You Figure Out How Much You Have? | Newton's Apple
Runtime: 8:03
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: What does it really mean to be "overweight"? In this 1983 episode of Newton's Apple, they discuss how height and weight charts can be misleading and the best way to figure out what percentage of body fat you have. Admittedly though, I'm sure most of us don't have a hot tub just lying around.

Hosted by Ira Flatow, Newton's Apple was an American educational television program about science produced and developed by KTCA of Minneapolis–Saint Paul (Now @tptweb) and distributed to PBS stations in the United States that ran from October 15, 1983, to January 3, 1998.

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True Story of Internalized Racism | That Got Weird

Title: True Story of Internalized Racism | That Got Weird
Runtime: 5:27
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Jo points out that racism and micro-aggressions don’t always come from white people – internalized racism is real and harmful. Whether within her own community or in inner-city youth, Jo talks about her opinions and experiences with internalized racism, the way we process racism, and how to be better than our mistakes.

00:00 "I thought you were white!"
00:18 Do you always know what racism looks like?
00:46 Do racism and micro-aggressions only come from white people?
01:01 Jo's experience with internalized racism in her community
01:49 Hmong pride and Hmong culture: both the ups and downs
02:38 Jo's experience with racism in the city with young people
04:11 Are we solving racism once and for all?
04:41 Being an ally can be complex, but it's okay to make mistakes as long as you're learning

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Chinese Jiaozi Dumplings | Relish with Chef Yia Vang

Title: Chinese Jiaozi Dumplings | Relish with Chef Yia Vang
Runtime: 11:46
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Chef Peter Bian of Saturday Dumpling Club is bringing us his mom’s recipe for jiaozi dumplings, including a made from scratch wrapper and filling that takes him back to childhood. And Yia learns a new skill - wrapping dumplings! Just keep in mind - no matter how we're shaped, we're important.

In this episode, Peter shares his mom’s recipe for dumplings, including a made from scratch wrapper and filling that takes him back to childhood.

00:00 Dumplings! The best way to celebrate Chinese New Year
00:55 The word "dumpling" is a broad term - let's break it down!
01:34 Pork, napa cabbage, and shrimp dumplings
02:05 Tianjin, famous for dumplings
02:30 Making the dumpling filling
03:10 Homemade wrappers for your dumplings
05:00 Rolling out the dumpling wrappers
06:43 What is Chinese New Year?
07:38 Filling and wrapping the dumplings
09:42 Dumplings are the star of this show
10:54 What does it mean to you...

The Token Friend: Self-Hate And Being Othered | That Got Weird

Title: The Token Friend: Self-Hate And Being Othered | That Got Weird
Runtime: 4:53
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: High school is hard enough without having to dodge high school racism and being the token in school marketing campaigns. On That Got Weird, Blackest Night discusses the harm we do when we use self-deprecating humor to fit in when we don't check any of the boxes and what it's like to be "the diversity" at your high school.

00:00 High school sucks. High school racism sucks even more.
00:25 From Guam to Bloomington, Minnesota
00:50 Feeling like an outsider in the suburbs
01:25 "Look! Our diversity is standing on a ladder!"
01:51 Trying to fit in during high school
02:27 Self-deprecation humor made people happy...
03:20 But at what cost?

#BeingTheToken #Tokenized #RacismUnveiled #ThatGotWeird #TwinCitiesPBS

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August Wilson in St. Paul, Minnesota | Full Documentary

Title: August Wilson in St. Paul, Minnesota | Full Documentary
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: MN Original celebrates the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson and his impact in our community through the years he spent in St. Paul. This special includes a rare interview with August Wilson from tpts 1997 program Literature and Life: The Givens Collection, profiles featuring director Marion McClinton and Penumbra Theatres Artistic Director Lou Bellamy.

00:40 August Wilson's body of work, background
02:07 August arrives in Minnesota, writes with Penumbra Theatre
04:03 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" play performance clip, background
06:35 Pillsbury House and Mount Curve Company rehearse "The Brothers Size" play
07:53 Marion McClintock, director and actor background
09:39 Lou Bellamy, Penumbra and August Wilson impact
12:27 August Wilson plays made big impact on American theaters, Broadway
16:50 How Penumbra Theatre got started
19:15 "I Wish You Love" play performance clip
21:14 Penumbra art focused on Afri...

Question and Answer with Mark Frost, Co-Creator of Twin Peaks | Inside Twin Peaks

Title: Question and Answer with Mark Frost, Co-Creator of Twin Peaks | Inside Twin Peaks
Runtime: 57:56
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: In 1990, "Twin Peaks" co-creator Mark Frost spoke on the inspiration behind the hit TV series. Hear what keeps people coming back to the show and what this means for the future of television.

00:00 Our funders
00:11 Inside Twin Peaks with Co-Creator Mark Frost
01:57 Question and Answer session with Mark Frost, co-creator of Twin Peaks
11:44 Frost File: Learn more about Mark Frost
13:14 Howard Rosenberg and Noel Holston, two television critics, discuss Twin Peaks
16:37 Mark Frost joins Howard Rosenberg and Noel Holston in discussing Twin Peaks and the future of television
30:08 Fun facts about Minnesota's Twin Peaks connections
31:26 Minnesotan views on Twin Peaks
38:16 Novelist Judith Guest, theatre producer Dudley Riggs, co-creator Mark Frost, and film and television scholar Nancy Robinson discuss Twin Peaks and the cult around it

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Apricots and...Cyanide? | Relish with Chef Yia Vang

Title: Apricots and...Cyanide? | Relish with Chef Yia Vang
Runtime: 1:04
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Apricot kernels have a natural toxin called amygdalin, which when eaten, becomes cyanide.

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How to Make Dukkah Spice Mix | Relish with Chef Yia Vang

Title: How to Make Dukkah Spice Mix | Relish with Chef Yia Vang
Runtime: 9:46
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Cook Mo Kotb invites Yia Vang on a shopping trip to Holy Land in Minneapolis to get spices to make dukkah. An Egyptian spice blend, Yia and Mo are making it two ways: one with crushed apricot kernels and one with almonds. Kids, be careful trying this one at home.

00:00 Poison or pleasing? Making Egyptian dukkah
00:17 Picking up the ingredients for dukkah
01:45 Making two versions of dukkah: almonds and apricot kernels
02:04 "Bukra fil mish mish": apricots and Arabic
02:50 The first steps of dukkah and an incredible mallet
04:04 Are apricot kernels poisonous?
04:49 What does "dukkah" mean?
05:09 Toasting the spices and remembering home in Egypt
06:00 Grinding the spices for dukkah
06:40 Mixing all the dukkah spices together
07:10 What do you eat with dukkah?
07:48 Trying the two versions of dukkah together

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Racist Doctors and Medical Microaggressions | That Got Weird

Title: Racist Doctors and Medical Microaggressions | That Got Weird
Runtime: 5:36
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: An Arab-American woman, Safiya has experienced a racist doctor, asked to pass as another race for work, and has watched her kids navigate racist situations too. She shares her candid experiences and explains when she just puts up with microaggressions (especially when it comes to the world of medicine).

00:00 "You could totally pass for Native. Could you just put some braids in your hair?"
00:20 Do you remember your first Minnesota microaggression?
01:18 Racist doctors, Karen, and medical microaggressions
03:11 Do you feel like going through these experiences helps you prepare your children for what might happen in the world?
04:10 Arab-Americans are counted as white on the census
05:04 "I tolerate a lot. Do I think that specific doctor is going to change his way of being? No."

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Only In Minnesota With Louie Anderson | Full Episode

Title: Only In Minnesota With Louie Anderson | Full Episode
Runtime: 56:02
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Everyone knows that Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, the Mayo Clinic, the Twins and the Megamall. But did you know that Minnesotans also can lay claim to the world's largest ball of twine, Bob Dylan's childhood home and the original polka mass? To honor Louie Anderson after his passing, we're making this video available on YouTube!

00:00 Our funders
00:20 Only in Minnesota with Louie Anderson
01:28 The world's largest ball of twine - Darwin, Minnesota
08:44 The International Eelpout Festival - Walker, Minnesota
15:10 The 'Hjemkomst' viking ship - Moorhead, Minnesota
23:09 Museum of Questionable Medical Devices - (Now in St. Paul, Minnesota)
26:07 World's only Frank Lloyd Wright service station - Cloquet, Minnesota
31:29 The only accordion school in the US - Red Wing, Minnesota
35:30 Bob Dylan's childhood home - Hibbing, Minnesota
41:48 The Bob Dylan Sound Alike Contest - Minneapolis, Minnesota
46:26 The Kens...

The Minneapolis Sound | Full Documentary

Title: The Minneapolis Sound | Full Documentary
Runtime: 56:57
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: For the first time since its original run 30 years ago, Minnesota Experience brings back The Minneapolis Sound, Emily Goldberg's first person journey through the vibrant Minneapolis music scene of the 80s. Watch interviews with Jimmy Jam Harris, Morris Day, Jerome Benton, Hüsker Dü, and more.

00:00 What is the Minneapolis Sound?
01:13 Meet the producer of the 1980s documentary, "The Minneapolis Sound," Emily Goldberg and the daughter of The Time's Jellybean, Bianca Rhodes
03:13 "When I say 'Minneapolis,' what do you think of?"
03:58 The many sounds of Minneapolis
04:47 There is no Minneapolis sound without Prince
08:44 Morris Day and The Time
13:29 Flyte Tyme Productions with Jimmy Jam Harris and Terry Lewis
21:46 Alexander O'Neal was kicked out of the purple regime
28:03 Questions with the producer of the 1980s documentary, "The Minneapolis Sound," Emily Goldberg and the daughter of The Time's Jellybean, Bianca Rhodes

Making Cambodian Egg Rolls | Relish with Chef Yia Vang

Title: Making Cambodian Egg Rolls | Relish with Chef Yia Vang
Runtime: 11:10
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Chef Bunbob Chhun, Chef Yia Vang's former boss, shows us how to make Cambodian egg rolls, while his parents join us to show the proper way to roll them.

Relish shares stories of cultural heritage in Twin Cities communities through the universal language of food. In each episode, host Yia Vang (Union Hmong Kitchen) takes viewers inside the home kitchens of local chefs as they serve up an ingredient or dish that has personal and cultural meaning to them.

00:00 Get ready to make some egg rolls!
00:28 What is in Cambodian egg rolls?
01:06 What's your first memory of making egg rolls?
01:36 Taro versus carrots
02:00 The origins of egg rolls
02:39 What are mung beans?
03:04 Making the egg rolls
04:45 Chef Bunbob Chhun's parents show us how to roll egg rolls
06:20 Mr. and Mrs. Chhun discuss learning how to make egg rolls and how they came to Minnesota
06:59 The history of the Khmer Rouge in Camodia and in the Chhu...

Dance Company SHAPESHIFT Uses Movement to Spark Change

Title: Dance Company SHAPESHIFT Uses Movement to Spark Change
Runtime: 5:28
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Ashley "Ash" Selmer is the co-founder and creative director of SHAPESHIFT, a dance company that utilizes predominately hip-hop and contemporary dance to spark conversations about a variety of social issues, including police brutality, interracial relationships, addiction and more. Selmer's company has an eclectic and diverse group of dancers that specialize in a variety of styles and movement. The performers include Ash, Alan Mure, Hannah Herrig, Gabriel Blackburn, Sophia Meza, Nate Kay, Rachel Miller and Nate Crash.

Video by: Maren Machles

#SHAPESHIFT #Dance #HipHopDance #DanceAsActivism #TwinCitiesPBS

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Slovenian and Minnesota's Iron Range Potica | Relish with Chef Yia Vang

Title: Slovenian and Minnesota's Iron Range Potica | Relish with Chef Yia Vang
Runtime: 10:57
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: A Christmas and Easter tradition on Minnesota's Iron Range, potica came with the Eastern European immigrants who moved to Northern Minnesota. See how two friends from the Iron Range - Samantha Kelly and Ashley Leonard - make their family recipe for potica.

00:00 Pot-i-ca? Po-ti-ca? What is it?
01:17 What's the process for making potica?
02:04 How did potica make it to the Iron Range?
02:28 The history of potica in Minnesota
03:00 Creating the dough for potica
04:40 Making the potica filling
06:13 Rolling out potica
07:37 Spreading the walnut filling
08:29 Rolling the potica into the roll
08:55 Getting the potica ready to bake
09:11 The baked potica reveal

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Title: Portraits: Sir Ian McKellen
Runtime: 26:45
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Before Lord of the Rings and X-Men, Sir Ian McKellen was a world-famous Shakespearean actor and LGBTQIA+ advocate. In 1992, he sat down with KTCA.

00:00 Our funders
00:17 Portrait: Sir Ian McKellen
00:49 Has your life in the theatre been what you wanted it to be?
02:04 Did you go to the theatre often as a child?
09:39 Sir Ian McKellen on Macbeth
11:25 Has the theatre been your family? Or is there life outside of the theatre?
21:00 Sir Ian McKellen on gay rights
23:52 What kind of person do you want to become?

#SirIanMcKellen #Shakespeare #LGBTQActor #ThrowbackTPT #FromTheVault #TwinCitiesPBS

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Minnesota's Wrestling History and the WWE | Full Episode

Title: Minnesota's Wrestling History and the WWE | Full Episode
Runtime: 27:41
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: In the days before WWE, Minnesota was a huge place for wrestling and for wrestler's to make a name for themselves. Check out the early days of Lenny Lane and the glory days of Minnesota wrestling.

00:00 Minnesota's love of wrestling
01:20 A Twin Cities grudge match
03:08 Minneapolis has always been synonymous with professional wrestling
04:48 Luscious Lenny Lane
10:20 Professional wrestlers and entertaining the crowd
12:50 "The male version of the soap opera"
13:30 Kenny "Sodbuster" Jay and the history of wrestling
22:30 The grudge match - Uncle versus Nephew!

#Wrestling #ProfessionalWrestling #LennyLane #ThrowbackTPT #FromTheVault #TwinCitiesPBS

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Minnesota Portraits: Esperanza Guerrero-Anderson

Title: Minnesota Portraits: Esperanza Guerrero-Anderson
Runtime: 26:04
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Esperanza Guerrero-Anderson came from Nicaragua and has helped found multiple funding sources for people of color in Minnesota.

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A Day In The Life Of Minnesota's Own Ghost Buster, Echo Bodine | Tape's Rolling!

Title: A Day In The Life Of Minnesota's Own Ghost Buster, Echo Bodine | Tape's Rolling!
Runtime: 28:41
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Echo Bodine's clairvoyant gifts started manifesting in high school. Follow Echo for a day with the Twin Cities self-described "ghost buster" while she talks about her past, why there are ghosts, and takes you on a ghostbusting case.

00:00 Meet Echo Bodine, clairvoyant and ghostbuster
02:00 Fighting against becoming a psychic and healer
11:58 "Am I imagining things?"
14:19 Main reasons that there are ghosts
17:40 Joining Echo on a ghostbusting case
24:53 Echo discusses former clients and cases

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A Day In The Life Of Star Trek Convention Attendees | Full Episode

Title: A Day In The Life Of Star Trek Convention Attendees | Full Episode
Runtime: 26:06
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: What's it like to spend a day at a Star Trek convention? As interesting as it sounds! In 1994, KTCA show Tape's Rolling visited a Star Trek Convention. Join attendees from around Minnesota who share a love of Star Trek and everything that comes with it.

00:00 Tapes Rolling! visits the Twin Cities Star Trek Convention
02:21 How did you get into Star Trek?
03:50 Setting up for the Convention
05:03 Meet the co-founder of the Star Trek Convention
05:50 Celebrity Look-Alikes and being Picard
06:50 Fancy Ray reporting from the Convention
07:50 Remaking the Command Center
08:43 Meeting Convention goers
15:10 News crews at Conventions only show the "interesting people"
16:15 Meeting Convention goers
21:37 Celebrity and Conventions
24:04 Meeting Convention goers
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Title: Coming Out Proud | Full Documentary
Runtime: 26:40
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: People of all ages talk about their experience coming out and how things have changed. This documentary was aired in 2008. How much have things changed even from then?

#ComingOut #LGBTQ #ThrowbackTPT #FromTheVault #TwinCitiesPBS

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Title: Grandma’s Way Out Party | Full Episode
Runtime: 57:30
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: In Grandma's Way Out Party, Kevin Kling and Lynda Barry take a road trip from Minnesota to Seattle for grandma’s way out birthday party. On the way, they make some biker friends, learn to speak Tagalog, and find some…interesting…roadside attractions.

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Lori Barbero from Babes in Toyland Talks Minnesota Music and the Longhorn Bar | MN Music History

Title: Lori Barbero from Babes in Toyland Talks Minnesota Music and the Longhorn Bar | MN Music History
Runtime: 2:59
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: In this episode of Minnesota Music History, learn about The Longhorn Bar. The Longhorn was one of the only places in 1970’s Minneapolis to see young original local bands. Influenced by the music coming out of New York and England, these groups were called New Wave or Punk Rock and were on the front lines of a new youth culture.

00:00 Minnesota was wholesome and all-American...
00:18 And then hardcore came to town
00:30 Lori Barbero on The Suburbs, Curtiss A, the Suicide Commandos, and hardcore
02:13 Lori Barbero on founding Babes in Toyland

#BabesInToyland #MinnesotaMusicHistory #TheLonghorn #NewWave #TwinCitiesPBS

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When Country Music Was King In The Twin Cities | Minnesota Music History

Title: When Country Music Was King In The Twin Cities | Minnesota Music History
Runtime: 3:27
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: In the 1940s and 50s, The Sunset Valley Barn Dance was the hottest music show in Minnesota when country music was king in the Twin Cities!

00:00 The hottest music show in Minnesota in the 1940s and 1950s
00:18 When country music was king in the Twin Cities
00:55 Genevieve becomes part of The Sunset Valley Barn Dance
01:30 Channel 5's Sunset Valley Barn Dance in the St. Paul Hotel
02:46 ...but then The Beatles came along
02:59 The end of the barn dance

#SunsetValleyBarnDance #MinnesotaMusicHistory #TwinCitiesPBS

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Cantus, "Simple Gifts" | Live Performance

Title: Cantus, "Simple Gifts" | Live Performance
Runtime: 3:11
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Renowned vocal chamber ensemble Cantus performs "Simple Gifts" live.

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What Is The History of Fruit Cake? | Relish with Chef Yia Vang

Title: What Is The History of Fruit Cake? | Relish with Chef Yia Vang
Runtime: 0:51
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: When we think of fruit cake, we think of the 2lb. hunk of bread that our grandparents put out during the holidays. But fruit cake has its origins in the Roman empire and at one time was considered so rich that it was a sin and was banned across Europe.

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Black Cake or Jamaican Fruit Cake and Sorrel Wine | Relish with Chef Yia Vang

Title: Black Cake or Jamaican Fruit Cake and Sorrel Wine | Relish with Chef Yia Vang
Runtime: 12:30
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: This moist cake from Jamaica has a number of names - Black Cake, Christmas Cake, Jamaican Fruit Cake. No matter what you call it, this boozy, fruit-filled cake has an interesting colonial past with a Jamaican twist. Paired with sorrel - also known as hibiscus - wine, you'll feel cozy in no time.

00:00 Black Cake or Jamaican Fruit Cake and Sorrel Wine
00:10 Meet Baker Altreisha Foster of Sugarspoon Desserts
00:20 Getting the ingredients for Jamaican fruit cake
02:48 The Roman origins of fruit cake
03:38 Fruit cake is a sin and banned in Medieval Europe
03:55 Making our Jamaican fruit cake
07:30 Making sorrel - or hibiscus - wine
09:25 Decorating and preserving the black cake
11:10 Trying the Jamaican fruit cake and sorrel wine

#Food #BlackCake #JamaicanFruitCake #SorrelWine #Relish #ChefYiaVang #TwinCitiesPBS

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Celebrating Trans Identity with Minneapolis Band 4th Curtis

Title: Celebrating Trans Identity with Minneapolis Band 4th Curtis
Runtime: 1:43
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Minneapolis band 4th Curtis talks about gender as a construct & how living authentically as gender non-binary & Trans people has changed their perceptions of life.

#TransgenderIdentity #NonBinaryIdentity #4thCurtis #TwinCitiesPBS #LowertownLine

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Charanga Tropical, "Me Gusta Como te Mueves" | Live Performance

Title: Charanga Tropical, "Me Gusta Como te Mueves" | Live Performance
Runtime: 4:04
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: 9 -piece ensemble Charanga Tropical combines traditional Cuban beats with modern salsa music. Including musicians from Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, the band features three violins, a flute and a large Latin rhythm section.

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Black Youth and the Tradition of Hip-Hop | Black Brilliance

Title: Black Youth and the Tradition of Hip-Hop | Black Brilliance
Runtime: 26:49
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Five black high school seniors share their stories of wisdom and strength, where “success” is self -defined.

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Title: Luke Hillestad | Figurative Painter
Runtime: 7:54
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Figurative painter Luke Hillestad finds inspiration for his portraits in the faces of the live models he uses. With close friends as his models, Hillestad is able to convey much emotion in his paintings. Inspired by old masters such as Rembrandt and Caravaggio, Hillestad aims to create work that is timeless. He has spent time in Norway and Paris studying under famed artist Odd Nerdrum.

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The Suicide Commandos: A Retrospective | Live Performances

Title: The Suicide Commandos: A Retrospective | Live Performances
Runtime: 7:49
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: The Suicide Commandos not only paved the way for bands like Hüsker Dü, but also for the modern music video. Here's their story, as well as performances from the mid-2000s.

00:00 "Attacking the Beat" by The Suicide Commandos (Live Performance - 2010)
00:41 What did The Suicide Commandos sound like?
00:53 How The Suicide Commandos formed
02:20 The Suicide Commandos at CBGB and NYC
03:27 The best and worst band in the Twin Cities
04:11 Why did it only last three years?
04:50 "Complicated Fun" by the Suicide Commandos (Live Performance - 2010)
06:20 The Commandos - "the sum was truly greater than the parts"

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Veteran Paul J. Flick | Assemblage Artist

Title: Veteran Paul J. Flick | Assemblage Artist
Runtime: 6:34
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: The transcendent power of art motivates assemblage artist and Vietnam Veteran Paul J. Flick.

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Carolyn Swiszcz, "West St. Paul" | Music Video

Title: Carolyn Swiszcz, "West St. Paul" | Music Video
Runtime: 2:11
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Carolyn Swiszcz uses painting and video art to capture the unsung and overlooked cityscapes that shape our daily experience. In this music video, "West St. Paul," you'll see Swiszcz's use of multi-media. While she says her work fills her with both amusement and a profound sense of doom, Swiszcz also relishes working in a place where artists "can truly have it all".

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Title: Hmong Song Poet of Kwv Txhiaj: Bee Yang
Runtime: 6:02
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Bee Yang is a respected traditional Hmong song poet of kwv txhiaj. Yang is the recipient of a MN State Arts Board grant for Folk and Traditional Arts, a Pollen 50 Over 50 Award recipient, and a winner of the Sally Award for the Arts in Initiative. Trained at the foot of the great song poets of his time, Bee Yang has lived his life as a refugee of war, toiling away in the factories of America.
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Chastity Brown | Full Episode | The Lowertown Line

Title: Chastity Brown | Full Episode | The Lowertown Line
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Raised in Tennessee, the hailed Minneapolis-based Chastity Brown brings her powerful sound to the stage in St Paul. Brown’s music is often described as a mixture of folk, soul, rock, blues, and country.

00:00 Lowertown Line presents Chastity Brown, hosted by Dessa
01:15 "Solely" by Chastity Brown
05:45 What were some of the biggest differences between Tennessee and Minnesota?
07:30 "Lift Us" by Chastity Brown
12:59 Is there still a spiritual aspect to your music?
14:29 "If You Let Me" by Chastity Brown
19:44 Do you feel like you need to tell your audience more about who you are?
21:56 "I Left Home" by Chastity Brown

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Sounds of Blackness, "The Drum (Africa to America)" | Live Performance

Title: Sounds of Blackness, "The Drum (Africa to America)" | Live Performance
Runtime: 4:12
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Sounds of Blackness performs “The Drum (Africa to America)” at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts’ opening of their new Concert Hall.

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Sounds of Blackness, "Hold On (Change Is Comin')" | Live Performance

Title: Sounds of Blackness, "Hold On (Change Is Comin')" | Live Performance
Runtime: 5:31
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Sounds of Blackness performs “Hold On (Change is Comin’)” in the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts’ at the opening of their new Concert Hall.
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The Replacements Former Drummer Chris Mars On Owning Your Vision

Title: The Replacements Former Drummer Chris Mars On Owning Your Vision
Runtime: 7:44
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: The Sex Pistols opened his eyes to a new type of music as a kid bagging groceries in the super market. After 4 years as the drummer of The Replacements, he felt pulled towards what he really wanted to do: paint.

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Sounds of Blackness, "Black Butterfly" | Live Performance

Title: Sounds of Blackness, "Black Butterfly" | Live Performance
Runtime: 4:47
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Sounds of Blackness performs “Black Butterfly” in the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts’ at the opening of the new Concert Hall.
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Carolyn Swiszcz's Deep Love For West St. Paul

Title: Carolyn Swiszcz's Deep Love For West St. Paul
Runtime: 8:37
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Carolyn Swiszcz, a legend in West St. Paul, uses painting and video art to capture the unsung and overlooked cityscapes that shape our daily experience. A BFA from MCAD and 20 years of Minnesota living have lead Swiszcz into a unique fascination with the simultaneously arid and enchanting aspects of dilapidated storefront architecture and worn scenery.

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jeremy messersmith | Full Episode | The Lowertown Line

Title: jeremy messersmith | Full Episode | The Lowertown Line
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: jeremy messersmith performs in front of a live studio audience, and discusses being king of wuss rock, embracing nerd culture, and his fundamentalist upbringing.

00:00 jeremy messersmith, the king of wuss rock
00:29 "Dillinger Eyes" by jeremy messersmith
03:33 jeremy messersmith on hacking people's emotions through music
05:23 "Purple Hearts" by jeremy messersmith
08:52 jeremy messersmith on his fundamentalist religious background and making music for a living
11:23 "Organ Donor" by jeremy messersmith
14:11 jeremy messersmith on nerd culture
15:29 "Once You Get To Know Us" by jeremy messersmith
19:47 jeremy messersmith on stacking musical elements
22:06 "It's Only Dancing" by jeremy messersmith

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Brother Ali | Full Episode | The Lowertown Line

Title: Brother Ali | Full Episode | The Lowertown Line
Runtime: 27:11
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Minneapolis-based, hip-hop artist, Brother Ali, brings the beat to St. Paul in this episode of The Lowertown Line.

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Kitten Forever | Full Episode | The Lowertown Line

Title: Kitten Forever | Full Episode | The Lowertown Line
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Taking inspiration from feminism, punk and pop music, Kitten Forever's aesthetic is both stripped down and personal. The bass and drum trio rocks a low-fi, high-energy sound. Kitten Forever performs a live set at The Amsterdam Bar in Saint Paul and sits down to talk about their tongue-in-cheek lyrics, the power of flower crowns, and feminism.

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Dessa with the Minnesota Orchestra | Live Performance

Title: Dessa with the Minnesota Orchestra | Live Performance
Runtime: 9:29
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Writer and musician Dessa creates new work through her collaboration with more than 70 musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra. A rapper with Doomtree, Dessa partnered with Grammy-nominated arranger Andy Thompson and vocalists Aby Wolf, Ashley DuBose, Cameron Kinghorn and Matthew Santos for the project inspired by Conductor Sarah Hicks and Grant Meachum, Director, Live at Orchestra Hall.

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Chuck Statler, the Godfather of the Music Video: Minnesota Music History

Title: Chuck Statler, the Godfather of the Music Video: Minnesota Music History
Runtime: 4:05
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Years before MTV launched, Chuck Statler was helping DEVO make groundbreaking videos and helped them revive their career and get signed to a major label. His second video with the Suicide Commandos had record labels scratching their heads and saying, "What do we do with these little movies?"

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Nooky Jones at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul | Live Performance

Title: Nooky Jones at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul | Live Performance
Runtime: 7:14
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: 6-piece neo-soul band Nooky Jones performs at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul, talks about aesthetic, and taking their time in recording their album.

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Title: Free Black Dirt and Black Creativity
Runtime: 6:37
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Whether for the page, stage, screen or hosted community conversation, Junauda Petrus and Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt use their creativity to voice Black narratives often erased or ignored.

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Title: Bobby Vee and the Day the Music Died
Runtime: 8:05
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Before his death in 2016, Minnesota Originals spoke with Rockabilly Hall of Fame inductee Bobby Vee about his life and career.
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Mary Mack: Failed Polka Artist and Comedian

Title: Mary Mack: Failed Polka Artist and Comedian
Runtime: 8:08
Date posted: 5 years ago
Description: Mary Mack started off in a polka band that she herself says was so bad that people preferred her talking. Now she's taken that to the next level in her comedy.
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