Jim Kirchstein’s music recording studio captured the sound of Wisconsin in the 1960s. Cuca Records got its start in a small recording studio Jim Kirchstein built next to his record shop. By recording ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Tom Keith, a longtime sound effects man who was the source of creaking doors, clucking chickens and more on "A Prairie Home Companion," has died. He was 64. Keith's death was ...

As “A Prairie Home Companion” creator Garrison Keillor wraps up his decades-long run at the helm this year, Here & Now today begins a two-day goodbye to the show. Here & Now‘s Robin Young paid with a ...

Sounds of the Prairie will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Rock Springs Nature Center. All ages can listen to and identify sounds in a prairie and how to make sounds using musical instruments. A short ...

Length: Five miles of trails at Mima Mounds (including a half-mile paved loop); seven miles at Glacial Heritage. Level of difficulty: Level to gentle grade. Setting: The 637-acre Mima Mounds Natural ...

I know next to nothing about Silicone Prairie, which for this year’s May Day dropped a couple recklessly nervy songs through underground Kansas City punk label Mutants 4 Nuclear Waste. There’s barely ...

An alarm was blaring inside the new design lab of the recently-renovated Eden Prairie Library, but as Jenn Straumann and Amy Kennedy Fosseen closed the door behind them, the shrill beep immediately ...

Eden Prairie-based Williams Sound, a global designer and manufacturer of wireless communication technology, has acquired Pointmaker. The acquisition part of a new strategy “to expand the Williams ...

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