Arts

"The Children" reunites three nuclear engineers after a Fukushima-style calamity.

Kaywin Feldman, the director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, is leaving in March to become director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

A play at the Guthrie follows an American athlete to a friendship game in Beijing.

Through infectious harmonies and percussion, the group interprets everything from traditional Brazilian music to Carmen Miranda and Stevie Wonder.

Plus, Art Hounds recommend a violinist's meditations on the Iron Range and the 25th anniversary celebration of Balls Cabaret.

Mike Day has overseen the world's second Omnitheater at Science Museum of Minnesota since the 1970s. Before his retirement in March, some of his movies will be shown on the giant screen at the museum's Omnifest through Feb. 28.

Choreographer Rosy Simas challenges dancers to use their own ideas in pursuit of common themes.

The Minneapolis-based group known for its huge puppets and annual MayDay Parade said Wednesday it was cutting staff and programming and suggested its future was in doubt.

Lead singer Bret Michaels told Rolling Stone that he was inspired to write the song when he called his girlfriend from the road and heard a man's voice in the background.

Think workout videos and glitzed-up TV shopping networks.

Thunder bolt and lightning rocked the 76th Golden Globes where a string of upsets culminated with the Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" winning best picture, drama, over another movie about musicians: "A Star Is Born."

The singer-songwriter's latest album, "Black Cowboys," chronicles the role played by African-Americans in settling the West after the Civil War. The album has been nominated for a Grammy.

For the first time in 20 years, a large body of films, music, and books has entered the public domain. That means they can be reworked by new creators in conversation with the originals.

Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers made the extra-long distance call by accident, but he was "disappointed" when emergency responders didn't show up at the International Space Station.

Meet more than 1,600 puppies representing 103 breeds at the Land O'Lakes dog show that runs this weekend.

Plus, Art Hounds recommend a Minnesota music line-up in Rochester and an installation of stainless-steel ellipses in Minneapolis.

Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund, whose deadpan interviews of pro wrestling superstars like "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan made him a ringside fixture in his own right, has died. Okerlund started as an interviewer in the Minneapolis-based American Wrestling Association.

Three of the most bookish people at MPR ran down the books from 2018 that you should put at the top of your reading list.

What's ahead for Minnesota in the new year? MPR News host Angela Davis spoke with three guests about what to watch when it comes to Minnesota politics, the arts and the economy in 2019.

Common Good Books is one of St. Paul's few remaining independent bookstores.