This week, Nana Boozhoo taught ous the word for Crust on the Snow Moon - "onnabani giizis" This week's video: Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo is created by Michael Lyons and made possible on KAXE/KBXE by the MN Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Bemidji State University brings Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella to the Bangsberg stage this weekend. BSU Voice Professor Jennifer Olson spearheaded the production and now serves as musical and artistic director for the show. She stopped by the KBXE studio with Bemidji State students Emily Bergeron who plays the Fairy Godmother and Erich Feist who plays the King. The production promises a 1920s vibe, magic, dancing and a creative twist on a classic story. Performances times are: Friday (2/28)

One of the biggest things for artists is putting yourself out there. Is it going to sell? Are people going to like it? Is it too weird? ... The beautiful thing is, when it is "too weird,"...it makes it interesting. - Shelly Nelson, Brainerd Jewelry Artist Shelly Nelson found a dead butterfly in her yard while living in Hawaii. The find inspired her to create a piece of jewelry. Today she receives shipments of dead butterflies from conservatories around the globe and breathes new life into them

K halid Hosseini’s novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are known for being heartbreaking, yet beautiful stories, and they're two of community member Arnold Dahl Wooley’s favorite books. Arnold is the owner of the Big Winnie Store in Bena, he’s also a public speaker and LGBTQ/Two Spirit advocate. He says The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are heart-wrenching stories that make us reflect on our own childhood and what we all have in common despite differences in race,

A couple of weeks ago I went to the movie Bombshell with Laura Connelly and Sarah Bignall. Th e movie is about the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. It was well done and brought up a lot of conversation after the movie about how women are treated in society and especially at work. Check out our other Strong Women conversations and coming soon is a focus group wrap up from our Brainerd listening session "Speak Up Lady: Objections to Objectification".

Kathleen West's debut novel is a story of the modern high school: overworked teachers, micro-managing parents, social media, and the students caught in between. It’s called Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes.

Emira Tucker is a part-time babysitter, stuck in a bad apartment and a series of part-time jobs while her friends are settling into successful jobs with healthcare and nice apartments. Alix Chamberlin, Emira’s employer, a self-made woman who has recently moved away from the stress and excitement of New York City, is now bored and unsatisfied with where she’s ended up. While babysitting Alix’s daughter late one night, Emira is faced with racially charged accusations and this triggers events that

Cari Ebert is a nationally recognized pediatric speech-language pathologist, an early intervention specialist, apaxia specialist, an autism mom, a public speaker, and an author. Her specialty is early childhood development and she'll be sharing her knowledge this Friday in Bemidji where she'll be conducting the seminar Wired Kids: How Screen Time Affects Early Childhood Development . She joined the morning show where she talked about her work as an early interventionist and the impact screen

Taking time to contemplate what is happening in nature is one of the many aspects of Northern Community Radio that sets us apart from any other radio station. Each day we bring you a phenology note when our resident phenologist John Latimer shares a note from his journals of more than 35 years of climate and nature data collection. Each Tuesday we dig even deeper with the weekly Phenology Report. This week, John dives into signs of spring, dragon's teeth snow forms and much more!

Tuesdays are special at Northern Community Radio. It's our day to really focus on what's going on in terms of climate and nature. During out talkback time we share observations from listners. When school is in session, in addition to regular listener reports, we hear from young phenologists across Minnesota when they call in their classroom phenology reports... This week Chris called in a report from Hill Lake near Hill City and we heard from school kids in Shevlin, Grand Rapids, Kelliher, Pike