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The Minnesota Twins aren’t short on iconic players who have won the hearts of fans over the years. One of them is Tony Oliva, who overcame obstacles in making his way from his home in Cuba to Major League Baseball, where he became a fierce hitter in the team’s early years, eventually receiving one of the sport’s highest honors. Sportswriter Thom Henninger has written a biography about the Twin’s Great, Tony Oliva: The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend.
“You know, I think on a national level he was kind of overshadowed by players like Harmon Killebrew, but in the Twin Cities, the fans took to him, and just had a look to him that warmed people’s hearts,” Henninger said.
KFAI’s Mike Moen talks with Henninger about Olivia’s life and career.
Banner photo: Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Tony Oliva and Red Schoendienst at the Hall of Fame Game on July 25, 1966, in Cooperstown, courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
MinneCulture on KFAI is supported by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
Originally aired January 11, 2022.
Liz and Naomi Hirahara discuss Hirahara’s novel Clark and Division, a poignant historical mystery centered around the Japanese-American community in 1940’s Chicago and the deadly effects of Japanese internment camps and anti-Asian policy and sentiment.
After the break, the team revisits a legacy episode in which Mira Bartok discusses her children’s novel The Wonderling.
Write On! Radio – Naomi Hirahara + Legacy
Write On! Radio
For the next three months, you can catch Soul Audible Detox on KFAI, Fridays 6pm, starting this week.
Soul Audible Detox is a black cultured environment that supports black culture, positivity and brings an unapologetically black perspective on today’s events in our community and nationally. Along with a little humor, brought to you by local Frogtown and Rondo childhood friends VP and The Pres.
Soul Audible Detox is is brought to KFAI courtesy of WFNU-LP 94.1 FM St. Paul Frogtown Community Radio
Our former Friday programs Native Lights and Counter Stories move to their new timeslots, Wednesdays at 7pm and 7:30pm, respectively.
For the next three months, you can catch Power Perspectives on KFAI, Fridays 1pm, starting this week.
Hosted by ShaVunda Brown and Andrea Pierre, Power Perspectives talks about policy, art, building power, and life in Minneapolis.
Power Perspectives is brought to KFAI courtesy of KRSM Radio – 98.9 Low-Powered FM Southside Minneapolis.
Our former Friday programs Native Lights and Counter Stories debut tonight in their new timeslots, Wednesdays at 7pm and 7:30pm, respectively.
You can also now catch Minneculture Presents on Mondays at 1pm
Don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise, there is great music out there EVERY year. At Weekend on Demand, we pride ourselves on playing the new new and in 2021 we logged spins on 651 different tracks that came out in 2020 or 2021 and placed them all on a “WOD 2021” Spotify playlist:
(We’ve already started a 2022 version of this playlist – after one week, it has 13 tracks, so we’re right on schedule!)
We also put together a 2½ hour block of 36 tracks from 2021 which was broadcast on FA2 and then saved to the KFAI Mixcloud:
Our tastes tend towards indie, pop and/or goth and our most frequent intersections are with our fellow Saturday family shows “True Brit!” and “Temposphere” along with Tuesday’s “New Like Whatever.” Check all of us out every week!
With another complicated year in the books, we offer this look back at the year-in-music, Upside Down style. 2021 offered plenty of sounds to get lost in, and below you can explore some of our favorites. Most of these exist in some physical capacity, but a few exist solely in the digital realm. Presented here in alphabetical order, with new releases at the top and reissues/archival music afterwards.
Tune in to Upside Down on Monday January 10 when we offer a look back at the year that was, with a sampling of most everything highlighted here (we may need to spill into January 17, TBD). Thanks for listening!
New Music
Lea Bertucci: A Visible Length of Light (Cibachrome Editions)
Blue Chemise: Flower Studies (B.A.A.D.M.)
Bons: Peri Bathous (Spillage Fete)
Chateau: Chateau I (Hobbies Galore)
Evan Cheadle: Fault Line Serenade (Victory Pool)
Cindy: Standard Candle Demos (Paisley Shirt)
Circuit des Yeux: -io (Matador)
Read More › “2021 YEAR-END REVIEWS: UPSIDE DOWN”
This week, Mai Thor talks to Sam about building a Disability Justice Movement in Minnesota.
Disability and Progress-January 6, 2022-Mai Thor on Disability Justice
Disability and Progress
