On the Thursday morning show, Heidi Holtan and John Bauer spoke with Dr. Jack Gilbert. Gilbert is the co-author of "Dirt is Good," a indepth guide for parents and healthcare professionals on microbiomes - the combined activity of all the tiny organisms inside our bodies and the surrounding environment that has an enormous impact on our health and well-being.

The Last Flapper is a one woman play co-produced by Visions Theatre and Long Lake Theater that retrospects the life of Zelda Fitzgerald. Wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Flapper shines a spotlight on Zelda's personal experiences of creative genius, repression and passionate pursuit of life. The setting for the play is a mental institution on the last day of Zelda's life - one cut short by a fire raging thru said institution. Julie Kaiser stars in the production and stopped by the

School's open and the student Phenology Reports are rolling in! What fun to hear phenology reports from area youth along with our listener correspondence this morning. Click on the links to hear what the kids and adults are noticing from Virginia to Long Prairie! Know of a teacher who wants to get students involved in the Phenology Program? Send John Latimer an email! Send along your observations and questions about what you are noticing outside. We'd love to hear from you. Email or give us a

Harry and John Latimer talked warblers (among other things!) on today's A Talk on the Wildside. WARBLERS IN FALL: THEIR PATTERNS AND PLUMAGE See Peterson’s guide to the Warblers by Dunn and Garrett

Each week publisher and editor Marshall Helmberger joins us to tell us about news in NE MN. This week MN State Auditor Rebecca Otto takes a stand on copper nickel mining, and the court case against the Timberjay has been dropped and Marshall reminds us to get out in the woods to see all the birds.

WNBA Playoffs begin this week and MN's most winning professional sports team the MN Lynx are ready to play at Williams Arena. Shelly Boyum-Breen gives us a wrap up of the season and her thoughts the next two weeks.

Music fuses with literature this Thursday at the Grand Rapids Area Library when Minnesota Book Award Winners Melanie Hoffert , Margi Preus , and Matt Rasmussen join forces with the musical stylings of Ipsifendus Collective . The public is invited to check out this unique experience Thursday, September 14th at 7pm . Heidi and John spoke with Paul Fonfara from the Ipsifendus Collective about preparing for and pulling off this event.

Retired Professor of Film and Pop Culture Jack Nachbar curates a free series at the Edge Center for the Arts in Bigfork. This year the series begins with 1936's "San Francisco" starring Clark Gable, Jeanette McDonald and Spencer Tracy.

Program 35: The Life of Charles K. Blandin, Part 1: Early Years A radio series produced by historian Don Boese. Don is the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi", and the main source for this series, "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota". The series begins with the arrival of the first Euro-Americans to the forested wilderness of Itasca County in the 1870s. In those early

Earlier this week the National Review printed Chuck Marohn's article from his Strong Town s blog - "Piling on Houston". We talked to him this morning to get his take, as a planner and engineer, on Hurricane Harvey.