Lead singer of Kiss the Tiger Meghan Kreidler spends time on Crispy Critics with host John Drake to share the story of the rise of the Minneapolis rock band. You can hear the back story on the band influenced by the Rolling Stones, Patty Smith and Tom Petty…and Kreidler’s swagger.

Author, educator and activist Chris Stark presented What’s Our Story? at a campus and community event at St. Cloud State University on March 29, 2022. In this podcast of the event (link at bottom of this page), Stark reads from her Minnesota book award nominated book Carnival Lights and continues to discuss more about her […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, the lights are starting to be turned on once again on the area’s theatrical stages, but after two years of pandemic related closures, who is left to take a bow?   Apparently, there are lots of folks interested!   Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks today with Sean […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down with Minneapolis musician Chris Koza for an in-studio chat and performance, the Untold Story’s first since March of 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic.  Koza is in town as part of a Legacy funded artist residency and has been teaching […]

In January 2022, KVSC’s News Director Nyah Adams sat down with Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall to discuss what the Central Minnesota Human Trafficking Task Force has been doing to eliminate sex trafficking in Central Minnesota. Recently the task force received a $575,000 grant to help combat sexual exploitation in Stearns County. Previously, the task […]

On Wednesday, December 15th, 2021, the weather outside the Pioneer Place on Fifth Theater was frightful, but the jolly inside was delightful as the Granite City Radio Theater Season 10 Episode 2 put a fresh layer of happy onto the holidays! Special Musical Guests jazz pianist George Maurer and vocalist Judi Vinar joined house band Collective Unconscious for some amazing new […]

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 […]