On this episode of 'Exposition: An Arts + Culture Podcast', we speak with Kurt Allen of the Kurt Allen Band. He previews the upcoming show at Scout Hall on Fri. Nov. 6th at 8 p.m.

On this episode of 'Exposition: An Arts + Culture Podcast', we speak with Kurt Allen of the Kurt Allen Band. He previews the upcoming show at Scout Hall on Fri. Nov. 6th at 8 p.m.

Though it was not part of the last Olympics, olive oil wrestling is the national sport of Turkey, where an annual tournament has been held since 1346, making it the oldest continuously running, sanctioned sporting competition in the world.

Though candy corn is available year round, 75% of its annual sales occur around Halloween. Thus each Halloween Americans buy some 35 million pounds of candy corn which works out to about 9 billion kernals.

In this episode of 'Exposition: An Arts + Culture Podcast', Caffe Concerto host Mary Mims speaks with Dr. Patrick Hopkins and Pianist Alexandra Joan about the upcoming Southeast Symphony Orchestra concert, 'The Romantics'. The performance is Friday, Oct. 23rd at 7:30 p.m. at the Southeast MO State University River Campus in Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall.

In this episode of 'Exposition: An Arts + Culture Podcast', Caffe Concerto host Mary Mims speaks with Dr. Patrick Hopkins and Pianist Alexandra Joan about the upcoming Southeast Symphony Orchestra concert, 'The Romantics'. The performance is Friday, Oct. 23rd at 7:30 p.m. at the Southeast MO State University River Campus in Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall.

In this episode of 'Exposition: An Arts + Culture Podcast', we speak with two students involved in the Dobbins Conservatory production of The Play That Goes Wrong, running October 29th through November 1st at the SEMO River Campus.

In this episode of 'Exposition: An Arts + Culture Podcast', we speak with two students involved in the Dobbins Conservatory production of The Play That Goes Wrong, running October 29th through November 1st at the SEMO River Campus.

The Ritz cracker was a considerable improvement over previous crackers. Not pale or square but golden and round the Ritz was the result of leaving out the leavening and adding more shortening to make a crisper, more buttery product.

Beethoven was not especially interested in food, sometimes skipping meals altogether when working on a piece. He didn’t know much about cooking, though there is one recorded instance of him donning an apron and preparing a meal for some friends. One of his biographers reports that it was a complete disaster.