This week on State of the Arts we figure out how to pick movies that wont corrupt our kids, and we check in with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in the wake of Director Evan Maurer's resignation. Plus we talk to a couple of young photographers who captured girl culture on film, and we take a look at the new photography exhibit "Visions From America" now up at the Rochester Art Center.
Donald Hall
Poet Donald Hall was in town this week. We talked to him about why he become interested in poetry and how it helped him grieve for his wife.
Brooklyn Bridge
The Children's Theater Company premieres a new work tonight. It's a collaboration between an Obie Award-winning playwright and a Grammy-nominated songwriter.
Minneapolis Gospel
A husband and wife gospel duo was making a big mark on the Twin Cities music scene a few years when tragedy hit the family. Since then the family has worked hard to put their lives back together. Among the signs of hope, says reporter Dan Olson: the family members are singing again.
Ancestor Energy
A Minneapolis spoken word and jazz group releases its first CD after over twenty years of performing together.
Assassination of Richard Nixon
In February 1974 a failed hijacking at an Ohio Airport received little attention. The story got lost in the coverage of the growing Watergate scandal. It was only revealed later that the would-be hijacker intended to kill the President. Now the story has been turned into a film called "The Assassination of Richard Nixon." Euan Kerr spoke with the film's director.
Dirty Movies
Dominic Papatola is tired of the bathroom humor in family movies.
