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10 best things our critics are watching this week From the "Bachelor" finale to Michelle Obama's new Netflix series for kids, here's what we're tuning into right now.  Text size Copy shortlink: 'Moxie' Directed by Amy Poehler, this sassy version of an "ABC Afterschool Special" flies in the face of typical TV fare that insists teenage girls only have sex on their minds. Hadley Robinson, a dead ringer for a young Kirsten Dunst, plays a fed-up junior who secretly starts a feminist zine that inspires her fellow students. By the final scene, yo...

*** Ugh. 2020. What an onslaught. And yet Minnesota artists persisted, creating and sharing amidst the constraints of isolation, disease and social injustice. MinneCulture producers at KFAI found innovative ways to work around the pandemic and through the unrest, connecting us with timely art and history stories from around the state. The year was terrible, but the work was a triumph. Here are our editors’ picks for Most Memorable Stories of 2020. The year started in ordinary fashion—Minnesotan artists doing their thing, KFAI producers sharing their stories. Producer Anna Stitt gave us a ...

Top 89 of 2020 - Staff Picks (MPR graphic) Aside from repetitive listening of a few major releases (Taylor Swift, Fiona Apple, and all 63 of the vault tracks on the Super Deluxe reissue of Prince's Sign O' The Times), most of my time in 2020 was spent laser-focused on the local community in Minneapolis and St. Paul. And not just the work people were producing, but the way that artists were rallying together to provide mutual aid and support in the wake of George Floyd's murder, and bravely pushing the conversation forward about racism and abuse within our own industry. Assemble...