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Minnesota Sounds and Voices

No sad songs: Hymie's record store thrives on vinyl in a digital age

No sad songs: Hymie's record store thrives on vinyl in a digital age

A young couple with two small kids and an old dog buy a vintage vinyl record shop in the worst economy in decades, in a languishing part of Minneapolis, in an era when many teens wouldn't recognize an LP if you spun it at them. It sounds like a great, sad country song in the making, except this story turns out pretty well.
by Dan Olson

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School of hard knocks: Road crews fight pothole wars shorthanded on money, science

School of hard knocks: Road crews fight pothole wars shorthanded on money, science

It's a battle fought in every Minnesota city and town during the spring. And the terms of engagement haven't changed much over the decades. Without enough money to rebuild the roads, it's patch and hope and patch again.
by Dan Olson

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Gardening is 'meditation' for Fiona Quick

Gardening is 'meditation' for Fiona Quick

For Fiona Quick, the key to gardening is to give the soil a gentle tickle at most, all a part of nurturing the biology below the surface. Quick is a board member of Gardening Matters, a Twin Cities-based non-profit that advocates for community gardening and arranges seed and seedling exchanges.
by Dan Olson

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Orkestar Bez Ime write, play their own brand of Balkan folk

Orkestar Bez Ime write, play their own brand of Balkan folk

The five members of Orkestar Bez Ime, Croatian for "orchestra without a name," have a wide range of musical pedigrees. But they focus their energy on folk music from the Balkans and the Romani culture.
by Dan Olson

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In Bemidji woods, painter Marley Kaul finds a quiet rhythm, brush strokes that stick

In Bemidji woods, painter Marley Kaul finds a quiet rhythm, brush strokes that stick

For those tired of a frozen Minnesota winter and pining for spring, Bemidji-area artist Marley Kaul's work satisfies the seasonal need with color -- red, yellow and orange. In the woods near Bemidji, Kaul, 74, paints scenes filled with plants and animals.
by Dan Olson

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'Music Man' actor Aimee K. Bryant finds strength in roles that aren't supposed to fit

'Music Man' actor Aimee K. Bryant finds strength in roles that aren't supposed to fit

Bryant's current role is Marian the librarian in "The Music Man" at Ten Thousand Things theater in Minneapolis. The role often goes to blond, blue-eyed actors, which Bryant is not. She's been cast against type before as British royalty and Amelia Earhart, among others.
by Dan Olson

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Piece of art missed by Nazis is cared for in Minneapolis

Piece of art missed by Nazis is cared for in Minneapolis

Joan Gorman is hard at work, restoring German artist Max Beckmann's "Blind Man's Buff." The 1944 work was painted in secret in Amsterdam for fear it would be confiscated and destroyed by the Nazis.
by Dan Olson

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