Guilherme Assuncao became something of a big deal at the grocery store where he works in Watertown, Mass., in December, when he agreed to stand in for a sound check in advance of a concert the store was hosting the next day.
Who knew ‘just some guy’ in a grocery store could sing? Read more →
In the buttoned-down world of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Elvis Francois and William Robinson are finally getting the payoff from their years of studying and the rigorous and exhausting pace of being orthopedic surgery residents: they got to meet Ellen. Read more →
The Justice Department claimed reduced ticket service fees, even lower ticket prices, might result from a merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation. Fat chance, and eight years later, it’s been exactly what music fans and several venues expected Read more →
Singer Andy Grammer and his band, which is playing at the Music Hall tonight, had a performance to make before his concert in Minneapolis: the home of a fan with colon cancer who was too sick to make it to the show.
The show came to him yesterday. Read more →
Jose Antonio Abreu, who took the kids from Venezuela’s shanty towns and taught them how to be world-class musicians, changed kids’ lives. He died on Saturday. Read more →
This would have been Mr. Rogers’ 90th birthday if he hadn’t died and left us all to fend for ourselves. Read more →
At the South Dakota Boys Class A Basketball Tournament in Rapid City, S.D., on Friday night, Steven Wilson had the honor of singing the National Anthem. And those in attendance had the honor of hearing it.
He sang in the Lakota language.
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The cat that did as much as any feline to usher in the era of cat videos on YouTube has expired. Read more →
These are tough times for the newspaper industry, tougher times for people who make their living as ink-stained wretches, and it’s no picnic for readers either when the newspaper owners talk to us as if we’re stupid on those occasions when they talk to their customers at all. Read more →
‘Representation matters,’ Jessica Curry writes in today’s New York Times.
She should know. This is her daughter, Parker, who is at the center of an instantly iconic photograph at the National Portrait Gallery. Read more →
Donna Hines & I made a pilgrimage today and we were delighted to wait in line behind this fellow art lover & hopeful patriot. Posted by Ben Hines on Thursday, March 1, 2018 (h/t: Paul Tosto)
Keillor’s reception at Yavapai College Performing Arts Center signifies that his career is not ruined by his actions, nor those who don’t want to be in business with him anymore, his fans are just anxious to swoon as they were before. Read more →
Golf Digest blogger Joel Beall thinks Minnesota should move on from Prince, though from his column this week, it’s not entirely clear what we should move on to, given that it’s the only identity Minnesotans have. Read more →
This is not a Confederate flag. Read more →
Bob Collins