A view from the trenches shows a number of new projects underway this winter of 2003. MTN’s first Members Screening of the year highlighted some upcoming works. Kevin LA Jenkins gave the lucky crowd a preview of the first section of his autobiographical show on getting through renal failure and kidney replacement. Jose Serrano has been working hard at his own trilogy of vampire-related music videos and showed his latest edit of part three.  Others who offered glimpses of their own current work included Beth Brody, A. Osman, Joseph Garelick, and Alex Grant. Our next Member’s Screening (open to the public as viewers also) will be Friday, March 14 at 7 pm. Long time “Community At Work” producer Leon Mitchell branches off into an expanded season with a new title “The Community’s View” and a new program “Conversations with Al McFarlane.” This collaboration with Insight News, and two different community radio stations grows into two days per week.  The program has been running live on KMOJ-FM (89.9) for many years now with programs replayed on MTN at a later date. Now the public policy forum at Lucille’s Kitchen on Plymouth Ave. has gone to Mondays live on KFAI-FM (90.3 & 106.7) at 11 am.  KMOJ’s Tuesday broadcast is temporarily off for the month of January but returns in February 2003 starting at 9:30 am.  Listen or drop by Lucille’s for a taste of these provocative and important discussions, or watch for them on MTN, Wednesdays at 5 pm. and Fridays at 8 pm. - both on channel 16. Bill Burleson took our Basic Studio Production class last spring and assisted other producers with their own shows to hone his skills and then began his own show, “Bi Cities,” in September 2002.  He has now produced 9 programs in four months. “Bi Cities” runs Tuesdays at 7:30 pm on channel 17 and features people and topics from the bisexual community of Mpls.-St. Paul. Also Chris Thompson and friends wasted no time getting their sports program on our channels.  After taking the Studio class in October he has already turned in quite a handful of episodes of “MSP Sports” since then.  It is carried on MTN Friday evenings at 7:30 pm. on channel 17, following “Purple Funk”.  Chris is also the publisher of the website TwinsDugout.com and another website specializing in Minnesota Wild hockey... TwinsDugout.com/WildOnIce.net. MTN has seen an expanding sports focus.  Other sports activities on the MTN channels include “The U.F.D.A. Today” (Ultimate Flying Disc Association) produced by Dan Webster, and “What’s Hoopin’” highlighting Women’s Pro-Am League basketball, produced by Tony Geer.  There is still space on our channels for your own program, so come on down.  First stop is the information workshop, held every other Wednesday evening at 7 pm.