Arts
Today's Morning Edition music is from Prince, with "Baby I'm a Star" from the film "Purple Rain," which opened in theaters 30 years ago today. It was filmed in and around Minneapolis, with many scenes at the First Avenue nightclub -- where some of the bartenders called Prince "Purple Pain."
Author Lisa O'Donnell talked to Euan Kerr about the challenges of becoming a novelist later in life, and how humor has allowed her to tell moving stories about difficult subjects.
Madrid's El Prado Museum admitted to losing 885 pieces of art from its collection. How does this happen?
Five years ago, printing your own book was stigmatized and was seen as a mark of failure. "But now," says a sociologist who is studying the industry, "the self published authors walk into the room and they say, 'I made a quarter of a million dollars last year."
In the age of the selfie, the self-portrait snapped on a phone then shared on-line, it might seem that there is no longer a place for portrait painters. But the artists involved in "Self & Others," a show that opens at the Instinct Gallery on the Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, say otherwise.
Daily Circuit producer Stephanie Curtis is heading to the beach for two weeks and shares a few ideas about what she, and you, might bring to read.
The Daily Circuit's Tom Weber and Andrea Swensson of The Current curated a retrospective from First Avenue, where much of the movie was filmed.
Tonight marks the opening of "Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art" at the Walker Art Center, and the museum is calling it a groundbreaking survey of the last 50 years.
In the Guthrie Theater's production, American-born actor Jeff McCarthy was chosen for the role of Henry Higgins, a very proper English professor.
Krista Tippett has won some of radio's most prestigious awards for her work exploring the complexities of faith and human life.
Thousands of fanboys and fangirls have flocked to San Diego for the annual Comic-Con, a celebration of superheroes, villains and more.
Today's Morning Edition music is the song "Monster Movies" a new single from the Twin Cities-based musician and composer Mark Mallman.
Anyone who looks for Gabriel Iglesias on YouTube will find hours of material from the comedian, a 350-pound workaholic who for years has honed his craft before an audience.
Today's Morning Edition music is from 35 years ago today. After taking power during the Iranian Revolution, the Ayatollah Khomeini banned Western music in Iran. That move inspired the Clash to write "Rock the Casbah."
What female on-screen character did you find inspiring?
For this week's Roaming and Reading, we take a cross-country trip with writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis and his moody labrador, Casey, in a rented RV.
Kerri Miller's conversation with novelist Elizabeth Gilbert about her newest work, "The Signature of All Things."
Flowers may grow so incredibly high, as the Beatles once sang, but trees -- not so much. Actually, a pine tree planted in Los Angeles a decade ago to honor former Beatle George Harrison reached a height of 12 feet, before succumbing recently.
Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady of Hot Tuna join us in studio.
Dan Barber is a chef and the founder of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.