All Things Considered

Tom Crann
Tom Crann
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All Things Considered, with Tom Crann in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington, is your comprehensive source for afternoon news and information. Listen from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every weekday.

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Magic and mayhem: LARPer life in Minnesota
Every Halloween, people across the country delight in dressing up in costumes and attending parties with friends. But for live action role players, or LARPers, it does not matter the time of year to don armor and to meet up with their friends to participate in a sprawling interactive theatrical experience.  
Renewable jobs boom continues but how long can it last?
There are now 12.7 million jobs worldwide in renewable energy including 700,000 new jobs in the past year alone. The growth of renewable jobs has been impressive — but how long can this boom last?
A century, a pandemic and 13 editions later, Betty Crocker is still your 'helper in the kitchen'
A new Betty Crocker Cookbook edition is out this week — despite the pandemic sending its recipe developers home and into bare supermarkets with the rest of us.
'The show must go on, wherever it is': Kyiv City Ballet to perform in Minneapolis
The Kyiv City Ballet left Ukraine to go on tour the day before the Russian invasion. The company has yet to return home. In fact, it extended its tour and will perform at Northrop Wednesday evening.
Minnesota choir looks toward a 'More Hopeful Tomorrow' in opening concert
The Singers will perform Damien Geter’s “Cantata for a More Hopeful Tomorrow” on Saturday. Originally commissioned by The Washington Chorus in 2020, Geter used a combination of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, spirituals and the words of Walt Whitman to write the piece that reflects on the cataclysmic events of that year.
Appetites: These Minnesotans collect, cultivate ancestral seeds as climate changes
In the last decades, indigenous communities have stopped growing the varieties of corn, beans, squash, and various plants they had cultivated for years. Now, a group in Minnesota wants to track down and return these lost seeds to the indigenous communities who once cared for them. Jessika Greendeer, Farm Director and Seed Keeper at Dream of Wild Health, joined Appetites to share more about their seed rematriation efforts.