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December 30, 2020
Top 89 of 2020 - Staff Picks (MPR graphic) Last February, I saw folk artist Freaque perform a song called "My Anger Is A Sun." He explained it this way on Facebook: "ANGER paired with FEAR is corrosive and destructive, but ANGER paired with HOPE is a powerful tool in a movement for change." Like many others, Ive had an angry year. Ive watched stubborn systems and organizations fail pretty much everyone I care about. But as adrienne maree brown put it, "My anger, my rage, is also r...
December 16, 2020
The Current Rewind season 2, ep. 1: April 3, 1970 28:51 The Current Rewind season 2, ep. 2: Nov. 28-29, 1979 29:30 The Current Rewind season 2, ep. 3: Sept. 27, 1982 26:28 The Current Rewind season 2, ep. 4: Aug. 3, 1983 24:06 The Current Rewind, season 2 ep. 5: Oct. 22, 1990 25:42 The Curr...
December 10, 2020
Michelangelo Matoss Cant Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pops Blockbuster Year. (Jay Gabler/MPR) Michaelangelo Matos and I are almost exactly the same age, and we both grew up in Minnesota, but his childhood was privileged in a way mine wasnt: in 1984, he had a cassette deck that could record straight off the radio. Until I finally got a boom box in 87, I was consigned to holding our tape player up to the TV if I wanted to record the theme to Knight Rider or In the summer of 84, Mato...