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• Marcus and Haynes reconsider Dylan
  Cultural critic Greil Marcus, who has written for Rolling Stone for decades, and is an expert on Bob Dylan is teaching a special course at the U of M this fall. Later today in the first of two public lectures Marcus will interview film director Todd Haynes.October 28, 2008
• Haunted basement attracts while it scares
  People are flocking to the Soap Factory gallery in Minneapolis to be scared. The gallery, just across the river from downtown, is making use of its 125-year-old building to present an artist-designed Haunted Basement.October 28, 2008
• Illness means final harvest for family farmer
  Fall is a time for endings, as the growing season concludes and farm families gather their harvest. For one southern Minnesota farmer, illness has added an extra measure of finality to the season.October 28, 2008
• Three decades later, dad and daughter reflect on joint custody
  Back in the 1970s, mothers usually got custody. Joint custody was a strange experiment. Thirty years later, one family looks back on their experience.October 27, 2008
• Minneapolis doctors save twins with new procedure
  A pair of babies born in Minneapolis this week are among the first in the Midwest to undergo a new procedure to fix a rare, but often fatal condition shared by twins.October 24, 2008
• Film festival celebrates bad video
  For the last 15 years Nick Preuer and Joe Pickett have scoured garage sales, thrift shops and even garbage cans looking for bad videos. They present the best of the worst, complete with commentary, in the Found Footage Festival.October 23, 2008
• Builders Association creates a continuous city
  A new theater production opening in Minneapolis examines the impact of global telecommunication on fundamental human relationships, including that of parent and child.October 23, 2008
• Traveling man
  Rick Steves says travels in Europe are still affordable, if you know where to look for the deals. And for those who can only travel by armchair, Rick talks about his new favorite sights.Midmorning, October 23, 2008
• Jazz influences and Brazilian poetry come to the SPCO
  What do you get when you cross a grammy award-winning jazz composer, one of the top sopranos in the world and the words of a Brazilian poet? This weekend, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra fans will find out.October 22, 2008
• The Puritan dilemma
  Sarah Vowell's latest take on American history says the Puritans were not paragons of virtue, but shaped Americans' image of themselves nevertheless.Midmorning, October 22, 2008
• Director Mike Leigh looks for realism without a script
  British film director Mike Leigh says his course in life was set very early on.October 21, 2008
• 5-year-old boy climbs onto MOA coaster tracks
  The Mall of America plans security changes after a 5-year-old boy wandered onto the tracks of a roller coaster at Nickelodeon Universe.October 20, 2008
• Cathy Wurzer's 'Tales of the Road'
  Cathy Wurzer, author of "Tales of the Road: Highway 61," joins Midday to discuss the history of one of Minnesota's most notable roads.Midday, October 17, 2008
• Cathy Wurzer's 'Tales of the Road'
  Cathy Wurzer, Minnesota Public Radio Morning Edition host, highlights the history of one of Minnesota's most famous roads in her new book "Tales of the Road: Highway 61." She joins Midday to share her stories.Midday, October 17, 2008
• New movie 'Fritz' tells the Mondale story
  A new documentary about the life and career of Walter Mondale will get its world premiere at the Minnesota History Center tonight.October 16, 2008

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