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The home-tour highlight of the week, per The Home Edit Group Chat: Clea wraps her series with her media room and laundry room. Her framing — that the media room is where every kid's movie night and sleepover lands, and that even the laundry room becomes a favorite when it's organized — is the practical case for treating utility rooms as front-of-house spaces. Two takeaways worth stealing for your own house: zone the media room around the kids' actual rituals, not adult fantasies of one, and treat laundry-room storage like pantry storage — labels, lift-out bins, vertical use of wall space.
For the radio nostalgics, A Prairie Home Companion's Substack revisits a live show from May 16, 1998, broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. The guest list is its own treat: writer and broadcaster Studs Terkel, fiddler and mandolinist Peter Ostroushko, and the Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series. Highlights include Garrison Keillor's spring sonnet, Ostroushko on "Miracle," a cooking sketch with Terkel, and a graduation medley. There's a specific generosity to that era of radio that's hard to find replicated anywhere now.
The Prairie Home archive went deeper this week. A 2004 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" rewind from the winter touring season highlights what made the trio formations and solo shows work — the looseness, the willingness to let a setlist breathe. Another 2004 episode from Sioux City — "Hold Fast to Dreams" — pairs VocalEssence with R&B pianist Kelley Hunt and Dutch pianist Thomas Alexander on "Für Elise." If you've been meaning to introduce a younger family member to the show, the 2004 Sioux City episode is a strong starter.
And to wrap your weekend listening, the Prairie Home crew revisits a January 2009 broadcast from Duluth, Minnesota — Joe Ely and Joel Guzmán on honky-tonk, Heather Masse on songs to melt the cold, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors with Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Tom Keith, and a Bob Dylan duet. Duluth-in-January is its own atmosphere, and the show leans into the weather rather than fighting it.
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