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• New Year's musings
  Just before the new year began, many Minnesotans were busy reflecting on the past year and musing about the future. Their thoughts and concerns hint at where they're from and where they're going, and give a glimpse of what Minnesota was like in 2003. We talked to several people around the state about the projects they never finished, the goals they did in fact manage to achieve, and the personal and political events that stamped their lives in 2003.December 31, 2003
• Find it at FOUND Magazine
  The start of the new year is a chance for many of us to get organized. It's finally time to clear through the clutter in your closets and drawers. You may stumble across some unusual objects -- unidentified pictures from the previous owner of your home, a bundle of old love letters, birthday cards and ticket stubs. Once you discover these items, it's hard to know what to do with them. The founders of FOUND Magazine want you to contact them. The magazine is a repository for old photos, kids' homework, to-do lists, poetry on napkins, doodles -- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life.December 30, 2003
• Building Babylon
  Sculptor Aldo Moroni thinks big. Really big. His latest project sets out to chronicle the development of western civilization. He's building, and rebuilding, the ancient city of Babylon in his northeast Minneapolis studio. He'll take it from ancient times up to its current incarnation in modern day Iraq.December 30, 2003
• Best in show
  According to the old stage adage, it's best to avoid working with children or animals. But Guy Wegener isn't one to follow conventional wisdom. As an actor in the in the national tour of Oliver! the Minnesota native shares the stage with 16 kids. Plus, he cares for the show's only animal actor -- a 65-pound British bull terrier.December 23, 2003
• All we need is the ice
  Organizers of the Winter Carnival in St. Paul are praying for a cold spell so they can finally begin construction on the what's supposed to be the centerpiece of next month's festivities -- the ice palace.December 23, 2003
• Remembering Grace
  Thousands of school children in Minnesota began their winter holiday vacations Friday. For many kids, it's a bright, happy time of year. But not for all. MPR's Chris Julin used to teach at an elementary school, and this time of year brings back memories.December 19, 2003
• Papa John Kolstad plays again
  A Minneapolis musician is releasing his first recording in 25 years. Papa John Kolstad's roots go back to the beginning of the Minneapolis folk scene. Now at 61, he returns with a CD of up-tempo blues and swing songs and a renewed vigor for making music.December 12, 2003
• Folk Underground: Happy little pop songs about going to hell
  For the most part, folk music is happy, wholesome stuff. But there is a dark edge to some of it, and that's where a new local band, Folk Underground, comes in. The trio just release its first album, Buried Things. It features a mixture of traditional music and the band's own material, which members describe as "happily morbid."December 11, 2003
• Blowing for a cause
  Bob Greenberg and his sons all play horns. They play as a quartet around Duluth and Superior. They like classical music, and jazz, and they're working up some klezmer tunes. At home, they celebrate Hanukkah. But this time of year, they play Christmas music, and they play it for the Salvation Army.December 10, 2003
• Search continues for Dru Sjodin
  The man accused of kidnapping University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin made his first court appearance, and hundreds continued the search for the missing woman.December 3, 2003
• Halloween Alaska draws on big names to celebrate.... the 80's?
  Members of three prominent Twin Cities musical groups, Happy Apple, 12 Rods, and Love Cars are taking a break from their noisier roles as rock and jazz musicians. They've formed a new band called Halloween, Alaska. The group describes its songs as quiet, mood pop, with a heavy nod to one of its favorite musical eras, the 1980s.November 27, 2003
• The pumpkin pie lady
  Homemade pumpkin pies will be on lots of Thanksgiving day tables for dessert. And whether they know it or not, the pie eaters in our region have Minnesota's Marian Biersdorf to thank for blazing a culinary trail. Thirty years ago Biersdorf used her college training and the memory of her mother's recipe to create what many of us know as the traditional pumpkin pie.November 26, 2003
• Steger heads north again
  Will Steger's heading out on another Arctic sled dog adventure. This time the famed polar explorer is out to demonstrate how global warming might wreak havoc with northern Canada's Inuit people.November 25, 2003
• The Minnesota Commissioning Club helps create new music
  A Twin Cities club is one of a kind. A group of friends gathers to commission new music, and then makes sure the pieces get heard.November 21, 2003
• Holy music hall
  People come from all over the world to play the organ at Sacred Heart in Duluth. They love the sound. Bluegrass bands and punk rockers like the sound, too. The Sacred Heart Music Center spent more than 100 years as a cathedral. It has different acoustics from most concert halls and recording studios. And musicians say it has a different feel.November 21, 2003

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