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Rick Steves discusses “Art of Europe,” his new show on PBS. ~~~ News director Dave Thompson is here to discuss the week’s headlines. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “Blonde,” a look at the rise to fame and the epic demise of actress Marilyn Monroe.

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 - Jackie Stebbins of Bismarck is the author of Unwillable: A Journey to Reclaim My Brain. It’s the story of her battle with autoimmune encephalitis, a rare brain illness. ~~~ Capitol Shakespeare is presenting the Merry Wives of Windsor, and they’re setting it in the 1950s! Here to tell us about it is artistic director Erin Weichel.

On this date in 1930, a Fargo woman successfully made a 2,400-foot parachute jump at Salt Lake, North Dakota, about 30 miles northeast of Napoleon. The feat seemed particularly daring, after news of nine fatal aviation accidents from across the nation occurring in a single day. There had also been a death weeks earlier when a professional parachute jumper in Chicago fell when helping rescue a woman dangling from a plane in a tangled parachute.

This week in 1915, the paper’s “Northwest Gleanings” section chronicled events from around the state. One of Fargo’s early newspapers was the Fargo Daily Courier-News. In the upper left-hand corner of the paper, it touted Fargo as “The Gate City of North Dakota.”

On this date in 1910, the pioneer town of Timmer established a Post Office. Located along the Northern Pacific railroad about twelve miles southeast of Flasher, the town was named after C. L. Timmerman, a Mandan banker, rancher and merchant.

Wednesday, July 20, 2022 - VA Medical Centers and clinics help identify innovative therapies, practices and policies. In this excerpt from the Conversations on Health Care podcast, we hear from Dr. Ryan Vega, who leads Innovation Ecosystem within the Veterans Health Administration. ~~~ Tom Isern bemoans this year’s poor Juneberry crop in this week’s Plains Folk essay titled “Lament for Juneberries.” ~~~ Keeping grocery stores going in rural communities can be a real challenge. From Minnesota Public Radio, we hear about an imaginative approach – a self service store. ~~~ There’s no shortage of kitchen gadgets, but one you can’t live without is a knife. For those who know their way around a kitchen a sharp knife is a must. Josh Edmonson is a chef at Fargo’s Mezzaluna and he also has a booth for knife sharpening at the Red River Farmers Market.

Friday, July 22, 2022 - A Lakota language and culture revitalization project is underway at a recording studio in Bismarck. Songs recorded more than a century ago are now being used to teach language and culture to Standing Rock Tribal members by re-recording them in a new and contemporary setting. Alicia Hegland-Thorpe has the story. ~~~ Native Americans have been growing food to feed their communities … and connect to their spirituality and cultures … for millennia. But colonization separated many Native Americans from their traditional foods. Now the idea of food sovereignty — or people having the right to control where and how they get food — is growing. And as Lauren Hines reports for Harvest Public Media… new formal programs to promote native foods are popping up across the Midwest. ~~~ Dave Thompson joins us for this week’s news chat. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “The Black Phone.”

The new thriller stars Ethan Hawke.

Monday, July 25, 2022 - UND philosophy professor Jack Russell Weinstein joins us for Philosophical Currents, our monthly dive into the philosophy behind current topics. Today’s is a doozy … “What is a human right?”

I just came in from an inspection tour of the Prairie Garden, and the news is bad. The juneberry crop is not worth harvesting this year. Maybe it was the hard winter, maybe the late freeze, maybe the spring flood, or maybe the siroccos of early summer, but we have so few berries I am just leaving them for the birds.