There’s a reason it’s illegal to be drunk and in charge of a cow in Scotland, and the Season 10 (!!!) premier of the Granite City Radio Theater clearly demonstrated that this evening! Special musical guest and local folk icon who has performed in all 50 states as well as the Kennedy Center for the […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack dodges roving packs of grandmas as he follows artist and teacher Mick Benson through the hallways of Country Manor’s Waterford Apartments to talk about his watercolor paintings hanging throughout the building and his experiences that shaped his art.  Benson will be […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with artist, curator, and SCSU graduate KOBI about the 6th Annual Alumni Art Exhibit.  On view now at the Paramount Theater in St. Cloud, “Impending: A World Without Ism’s” features numerous graduate artists from SCSU and their visions of a world where our […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota EXTENDED INTERVIEW, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU English Professor Mike Dando about a recently published paper from him and some of his colleagues called “Am I Real?: Hybridity, Strategic Multiplicity, and Self-Actualization in Star Trek: Picard.” The paper offers an explanation of what it […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU English Professor Mike Dando about a recently published paper from him and some of his colleagues called “Am I Real?: Hybridity, Strategic Multiplicity, and Self-Actualization in Star Trek: Picard.” The paper offers an explanation of what it means to […]

Dick Lucas, longtime frontman of UK ska/punk/reggae band Culture Shock (and some may know him from The Subhumans or Citizen Fish)shares his thoughts about the state of the world as we continue to live and play under the onus of a global pandemic with our longtime frontman of the Undercurrents Punk Rock Show, XAkk G. […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with visiting lecturer Dr. Corey Yeager, Team Psychologist from the Detroit Pistons.  Yeager will be in town on Thursday, September 9 speaking at 11:00 in SCUS’s Atwood Center as part of the Smithsonian exhibit “The Bias Inside Us.”  We all have biases, and […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack delves into a rather seedy aspect of the Minnesota State Fair with State Auditor Julie Blaha, who is also an SCSU graduate.  With previous blue ribbons for State Fair “crop art” under her belt, Blaha talks about how blending math and art helps […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with a variety of Minnesota State Fair exhibitors as the fair kicks off Thursday, August 26.  Normally, KVSC along with AMPERS, the Association of Minnesota Public and Educational Radio Stations, would be broadcasting live from the Fair, but due to concerns over […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we travel by bicycle to the east from St. Cloud to Portland, Maine.  Quentin Super is an SCSU graduate who, along with a friend, biked 1,800 miles over seven weeks to the east coast, and then wrote a book about it called The Long Road East.  Arts & Cultural Heritage […]