KFAI's MinneCulture Presents

Recent Stories from Minneculture We'll be playing a handful of stories from the Minneculture collective as well as a few tunes from the Live from Minnesota series. It's pledge drive time at KFAI & for the Listening Lounge ! We're asking for your help to PLEASE support our amazing little public radio station by donating today! Every buck counts. Plus, only during this campaign, you can even score yourself a pair of these dopefly socks!   http://kfai.org/donate 

The Minneculture Podcast  from KFAI  More episodes from the new  MinneCulture Podcast ! We are going to air 4 installments from the bi-weekly series which just wrapped up it's first season. Minneculture features  the best arts, culture, and history reporting from KFAI . In these episodes, we'll cover demolition lawn mower derbys, mosquito control, vigilante bikers (as in bicyclists), both rogue potters and plate breakers, b ackyard chicken coops,  plus the professional wrestling scene in Minnesota -- so hold on tight!  Our show will feature work by independent producers:  Britt Aamodt , Xan Holston , Graison Hensley Chapman ,  Sophie Nikitas ,  and Todd Melby .  Minneculture is made possible by a grant from the  Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund . You can hear more stories from  Minneculture at their Soundcloud page  and download all of Series One of the Minneculture podcast NOW on both iTunes and Stitcher.

This is Insanity from Hearing Voices A self-examination and rumination on a myriad of disturbed mental states. First, backed by the Disposable Heroes of Hiphopcracy, William S. Burroughs declares, "This is Insane," an anonymous reporter describes his "Electroshock" therapy, and The Avalanches mashup a " Frontier Psychiatrist ." Plus, Scott Carrier takes "The Test" for schizophrenia and Joe Frank is pathologically challenged by time. Finally, Sound Portraits helps Howard Dully   trace the reasons and repercusssions of his  very experimental  "ice pick" lobotomy, a procedure performed on him when he was 12 years old by psychiatrist Walter J. Freeman.

The View from Room 205 by Linda Lutton This one-hour documentary takes an unflinching look at the intersection of poverty and education in our country. It tells the story of a fourth grade classroom at William Penn Elementary , a public school in one of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, North Lawndale on Chicago’s West Side. The piece weaves together human stories in the school, from the children to their teacher to the principal, and pulls back to explain the big picture. It looks at poverty’s hold on school achievement and explores the unintended consequences of a core belief driving school reform today – that poverty is no excuse for low achievement. Peabody Award-winning reporter Linda Lutton of WBEZ Chicago spent months reporting from Penn and the neighborhood around the school. Her work tackles fundamental questions about how we educate poor children, and whether schools can actually overcome poverty. It documents - often painfully - how we struggle and fail to lift pover