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Directed by Amy Poehler, this sassy version of an ABC Afterschool Special flies in the face of typical TV fare that insists teenage girls only have sex on their minds. Hadley Robinson, a dead ringer for a young Kirsten Dunst, plays a fed-up junior who secretly starts a feminist zine that inspires her fellow students. By the final scene, you ll be inspired, too. Netflix (Neal Justin) The Bachelor season finale
Ugh. 2020.
What an onslaught. And yet Minnesota artists persisted, creating and sharing amidst the constraints of isolation, disease and social injustice. MinneCulture producers at KFAI found innovative ways to work around the pandemic and through the unrest, connecting us with timely art and history stories from around the state. The year was terrible, but the work was a triumph. Here are our editors’ picks for Most Memorable Stories of 2020.
The year started in ordinary fashion Minnesotan artists doing their thing, KFAI producers sharing their stories. Producer Anna Stitt gave us a beautiful story about the Voices of Hope women’s prison choir, Emily Bright brought us a story about a Hmong hip-hop artist who performed alongside his grandma, Dixie Treichel introduced us to interdisciplinary artist and dancer DejaJoelle, and KFAI program director Mason Butler profiled a film fest that actually encourages audiences to heckle.
Top 89 of 2020 - Staff Picks (MPR graphic)
Aside from repetitive listening of a few major releases (Taylor Swift, Fiona Apple, and all 63 of the vault tracks on the Super Deluxe reissue of Prince s
Sign O The Times), most of my time in 2020 was spent laser-focused on the local community in Minneapolis and St. Paul. And not just the work people were producing, but the way that artists were rallying together to provide mutual aid and support in the wake of George Floyd s murder, and bravely pushing the conversation forward about racism and abuse within our own industry.
Assembled into a list, these 20 songs provide a living history and a narrative of grief, rage, separation, and healing, told from a uniquely Twin Cities perspective. Even as the live music scene faced unprecedented challenges, the artists among us, ever resourceful and resilient, pivoted to recording from home and documenting – sometimes in real time – the events that were unfolding around them.