Culture & Community News

When we think about seeking daily joy and lasting fulfillment, cultivating curiosity is rarely the first thing that comes to mind but based on groundbreaking research, professor Dr. Todd Kashdan talks with Kinshasha about the engine behind achieving a life that is most worth living.

Not all young people can do it, not even former recipients of the Children’s Defense Fund’s:http://www.cdf-mn.org/ Beat the Odds*:http://tinyurl.com/CDF-BTO awards, given each year to four true survivors of the adversity so many youngsters experience in the face of poverty, parental loss and/or abuse and discouraging behavior by some of the trusted adults in their lives.

Last Friday (Mar

Tune in Friday, March 12, 11am to KFAI’s Catalyst:politcs & culture for an interview with curator SHERYL MOSELEY about the 17th annual WOMEN WITH VISION FILM FESTIVAL at WALKER ART CENTER.

The annual Freedom of Information Day:http://mncogi.blogspot.com/ is upon us March 16, sponsored by the Minnesota Council on Government information (MN-COGI):http://www.mncogi.org/. You’d think this would not be a necessary day, but government at all levels, remains hell-bent on classifying or labeling as private or secret or confidential much of the information that should be made public.

Why are so many people experiencing thyroid imbalance? Are you cold, experiencing weight gain, fatigue, hair loss, memory loss, irritability and the list goes on. Your thyroid may not be working properly and why is that?

Atrazine: What is it, why is it in our environment and what does that mean to you?

Tune into KFAI all day on Monday March 8th to hear a full day’s programming devoted to celebrating International Women’s Day. You will hear music and discussion from 6am to 8:30pm produced to honor IWD.

Mizna, the Twin Cities Arab Arts & Literature organization, is hosting their six th annual Arab Film Festival, March 11-14, Heights Theatre, in Columbia Heights.Documentaries and feature films from local and international filmmakers. Hear all about on Art Matters, Thursdays, 7pm and on Catalyst: politics & culture, Fridays, 11am.

TTT revisits Xcel Energy’s continuing push to place electrical substations in the Hiawatha corridor and high-voltage lines over the Midtown Greenway. Despite reams of testimony and several Friend of the Court briefs being filed in what’s called a contested case, Xcel persists in its claim that additional capacity is needed in this area of the city.

Health Notes will be celebrating International Women’s Day with a program entitled called Girls of Distinction,

High school girls from We Win Institute’s Rites of Passage program will be honoring great African and African American She-roes.
Through poetry, biographies and song, they will depict women such as Angela Davis, Yaa Asantewa, Maya Angelou, Queen Latifah and Alicia Keyes.

Tune into Truth to Tell:/truthtotell on Wednesday, February 24th at 11am for LYME DISEASE 2: Politics and Prevention in Our Great Outdoors. Back in January, we talked about the surge in cases of Lyme Disease – the seemingly innocuous infection from the bite of a deer tick – the near-microscopic cousin to the larger wood tick – both of them flourishing in the Minnesota outdoors.