For 50 years, Bemidji State University students have transported guests of the dinner theater, madrigal experience to the holiday happenings of the 16th century. This year's events will be the last of the annual Madrigal Dinners, but that's not to say they will never happen again. BSU Professor, Director of Choral Activities and Producer of the Madrigal Dinners, Dr. Dwight Jilek, stopped by the KBXE studio to chat about this special holiday phenomenon and what the future holds in terms of BSU

No matter how old they get, some daughters still have their dads wrapped around their little fingers. Don Zieman's daughter requested he put together an album of the folk songs he performs for his grandchildren and shortly after, Don set out to creating his newest album, Minstrels of the Northwoods. The CD includes lullabies, folk classics and regional favorites all of which are collaborations between Don and many of his northern Minnesota musician friends. Initially meant to be a keepsake for

Aaron Wenger helped us make some sense of the Mars InSight probe that landed on Monday. Got a physics/astronomy/space/cattle question for Aaron (Judas Priest!) Email us!

This video is from the Upper Great Lakes Regional Figure Skating Championships in Peoria, IL in October. We talked with Wren on the Thursday Morning Show. Check out the Bemidji Pioneer's article about her as well.

On Saturday December 8 th , from 10 a.m. until noon, the Central MN Regional Sustainable Development Partnership , the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota , and Grampa G’s Farm in Pillager will host a public open house for a new Deep Winter Greenhouse. Greg Schweser is Director of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems for University of Minnesota Extension Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships. He explains deep winter greenhouses this way: “To get down to it, it’s a greenhouse

Each week John and Heidi pull up a chair to one of our member’s kitchen tables and get to know them a little bit better. This week, they just turned up the microphone in the KBXE studio and found Katie Carter. She was eating a breakfast of potica, oatmeal with strawberries, and a giant cup of black coffee. Hear the whole conversation by clicking below. Thanks to our sponsor Homestead Mills for their support of this program! Let us know if you want to be our guest on What's For Breakfast . All it

In her essay, "Make it Mine", Serenity Schoonover calls upon inner resources to combat the onslaught of winter.

Carol Ann Russell recently received an Artist Fellowship from the Region 2 Arts Council . The fellowship recognizes Russell's lifelong achievements in poetry and will financially support her efforts to publish a fifth volume of poetry - a retrospective including poems from earlier in her life alongside new works. In addition to the four books of her own poetry, Russell's work has been included in many literary magazines including Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Portland Review, Montana Review,

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Every week, our resident Phenologist John Latimer gathers his phenological data and reports his findings in the Tuesday morning Phenology Report. As always, we love to hear what our listeners are noticing out in nature. Give us a call at 218.999.9876 and let us know what is happening around your place. You can also send an email directly to John . Either way, we want to hear from you! If you love this stuff, please consider

Annaliesa McCartney and Sarah Verke are board members and volunteers who are helping build the new Free Range Food Co-op in Grand Rapids. They recently joined Maggie Montgomery and Katie Carter on Northern Community Radio’s Morning Show to talk about the co-op and give an update on the community’s progress. The idea to build a new food co-op in Grand Rapids was born in October 2015, with a small group gathered around a kitchen table. “We met for about 6 months, recruiting other interested people