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The star of the Back to the Future: The Musical may be the car. The show's design team created a DeLorean that flies over the audience.

Don Winslow's sprawling, operatic epic about the War on Drugs has some flaws, but it does the same thing Shakespeare's histories did: It simplifies current events into messy, bloody, gripping theater.

Matt Sumell wrote Making Nice in part as a response to his mother's death from cancer. "I was using the good luck of bad luck," he says. "You use what hurts."

The humorist has made a name as a playwright, novelist, columnist and screenwriter. Now he's turned his attention to the Young Adult market with an update of the Cinderella story — starring a young girl from a trailer park.

Terry McMillan, the best-selling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back, tells NPR's Scott Simon that she writes because she wishes she were a magician. She shows off her tricks in Who Asked You?, a novel with many narrators — including a woman named BJ and her husband, children and grandkids.

On the podcast Song Exploder, a musician takes apart one of their songs and tells how it was made. Graham Nash talked about "Our House" from Crosby Stills Nash and Young's 1970 album Deja Vu.

President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.

Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. Researchers who study how people react to robot personalities, however, haven't focused on this much -- though one study recently found that neurotic traits in a robot can make them seem more relatable.

Jewish Americans who are critical of how Israel and the U.S. are responding to Hamas' attack say they're being ostracized by the mainstream U.S. Jewish community.

Karen Dalton, an enigmatic artist beloved by colleagues Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, and idolized by followers like Nick Cave and Courtney Barnett, is the subject of a new film.

Commentator Ellen Clare grew up in the tobacco belt of Virginia.

Let's Visit is our monthly look at a town or area in northern Minneosta. This summer we focused on Blackduck. In these segments hear about Blackduck from…

Scott Stowell, a contributing writer for Northern Community Radio, is from Ely. He shares an essay on a recent trip he took to the Boundary Waters Canoe…

The Youth Water Summit in Grand Rapids brought together 450 area 5th graders and 100 volunteers for a day of fun and education about our most valuable…

With the new Federal fiscal year about to start, Michael Goldberg has been trying to follow the news about this year’s budget, but he gets confused. In…

Volunteer producer and patriot Michael Goldberg is celebrating Independence Day in all the usual ways, but he threatens to go out and play in traffic. He…

Commentator Michael Goldberg is trying to come up with a decoder ring that will help him translate gobbledygook into something he can understand. One kind…

Andrew and Stephanie Downing talked with us about their new book. They will be talking Tuesday February 21st at the education meeting of the local NAMI…

It has now been nearly a week since rescue crews last pulled anyone alive from the rubble, but officials in Florida reiterated Wednesday they were not giving up hope.

The bipartisan plan will help the Midwest "lead on electric vehicle adoption, reduce carbon emissions, spur innovation, and create good-paying jobs," says Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.