MinneCulture Year in Review, Pt. 4 - Airs Jan 27th

Ty Yule Remembers Pi: “The Dyke Bar of Our Dreams by Sheila Regan ~
Pi Bar infused the Twin Cities with an ecstatic, high-energy jolt of queerness for the year and a half it was open. The bar was established in South Minneapolis in 2007. They catered to lesbians and queer women, but was also open to the entire LGBTQ scene and made its embrace of the transgender community explicit. In his recent memoir, “Chemically Enhanced Butch,” former Pi proprietor Ty Yule reflects on Pi’s brief but impactful existence in the Twin Cities. KFAI’s Sheila Regan reports.

BYO Boat at Float-In Theater by Paul Brohaugh ~
As COVID Summer 2020 heated up, Minnesotans got creative about socially distant summertime events. Parks and outdoor recreation venues saw a surge in visitors and drive-in theaters are back in style. MinneCulture’s Paul Brohaugh took his family to Silverwood Park in St. Anthony, just north of Minneapolis, to see their version of a socially-distant outdoor movie.

Moving In The Next Direction: The Works of Filmmaker Missy Whiteman by Dixie Treichel ~
Missy Whiteman (Northern Arapaho and Kickapoo) is a Minneapolis filmmaker exploring new ways of Indigenous storytelling with expanded cinema and new technology. The Coyote Way: Going Back Home, is a two dimensional short sci-fi film that includes a young boy’s journey, time travel, parallel universes and DNA memory with Indigenous perspectives. This film transformed into The Coyote Way: X - Expanded Cinema Experience. It is shot in 360 degrees, uses virtual and augmented reality (360 VR/AR) and sometimes includes video synthesizer, projection, performance, live score and audience participation. Missy’s experimentation with expanded cinema is ongoing and new projects are upcoming.

The Master of Deception: John Ivan-Palmer Remembers His Magician Father in New Memoir by Britt Aamodt ~
The Minneapolis of the 1950's offered a thriving entertainment scene that lured men and women with money to spend into dozens of theaters and burlesque clubs. Variety performers arrived from all over the country, contortionists, jugglers, ventriloquists, dancers -- and a magician with a Clark Gable mustache known as the Master of Deception. In 2020, the magician's son, John-Ivan Palmer, wrote about his father Jack Pyle and the era of variety floor show entertainments in his memoir "The Master of Deception: A Son Searches for His Father in the House of Illusion." KFAI's Britt Aamodt reports.

Accordion for the Front Lines by Paul Brohaugh ~
While social distancing is pushing many artists to perform on video screens, Minneapolis musician Philip Shorey seeks small, in-person audiences. Paul Brohaugh joined Philip on a Monday morning, outside of Bethesda Hospital, where healthcare workers treat COVID-19 cases.

Manure-Covered Farmers and Other Acts of Powerline Protest by Charlotte Colantti ~
On March 5, 1978 in subzero temperatures, about 10,000 farmers marched across Pope County, Minn. in a staged funeral procession to mourn the death of Justice. The funeral, complete with horse-drawn hearse and giant puppets, was just one episode in the 6-year protest movement to stop the routing and construction of a high-voltage powerline through Western Central Minnesota. With the help of archived audio from the Minnesota Historical Society's Oral History Project, KFAI's Charlotte Colantti shares this short history of rural civil disobedience.

Medicine for Hearts: The Works of Poet Lisa Marie Brimmer by Dixie Treichel ~
Poet Lisa Marie Brimmer writes with heartfelt expression addressing personal and social issues. They are a co-editor of Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride Anthology from the Minnesota Historical Society Press and their work has been published and performed nationally and internationally. Lisa currently teaches at Century College.

Free In My Mind: Surviving Incarceration Through Music by Anna Stitt ~
Two Minnesota musicians, Amanda Weber and Natalie Pollard, are starting what is thought to be the first re-entry choir in the U.S. Pollard shares the ways music sustained her in prison and connected her with Weber. This story also features music by Natalie Pollard and the Voices of Hope women's prison choir at the Minnesota Correctional Facility – Shakopee. KFAI's Anna Stitt reports.

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