Bob Collins
Garrison Keillor has gotten some people stirred up again, thanks to his assessment of the election of 2018 and, specifically, the election of the first Somali-American from Minnesota to Congress. Read more →
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Garrison Keillor will remain persona non grata in Vermont after a book festival where he was scheduled to appear pulled the plug on a fundraiser. Read more →
Garrison Keillor has been erased from the University of Minnesota’s ‘Scholar’s Walk’, a tribute to famous alumni. Read more →
You can be a reporter or you can be an employee. But when the story is within your company, you can’t be both. Read more →
Women are tired of this. They’re tired of all of it. And they’re not going to give a break to politicians or their party on the basis of ‘it could always be worse.’” Read more →
Tonight at the Hollywood Bowl, Keillor will step onto the stage as host for the last time. The show is being recorded for broadcast tomorrow night.
It is, a critic says, a more nuanced show than the show’s detractors acknowledge. Read more →
Once A Prairie Home Companion — or at least its Minnesotaness — disappears, what is our image to the bubs in Colorado and elsewhere? Read more →
The New York Times today hits on a truism: Even as he’s been an icon of Minnesota since the the glaciers helped create Bluff Country, nobody really knows him. Read more →
Who represents us now? Who puts the bounce in Minnesota’s step. Who’s left to declare to the world that Minnesota matters? Read more →
Generally speaking, public radio listeners break down into one of two groups: those who are cool with Garrison Keillor singing and those who consider it fingernails on a chalkboard.
Both groups, however, are likely united with a touching moment Saturday in Milwaukee, from where A Prairie Home Companion originated.
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Garrison Keillor’s decision to walk away from A Prairie Home Companion means the show is going to change. And public radio listeners and station owners are uncomfortable with change.
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Garrison Keillor has hinted at retirement from A Prairie Home Companion so many times that it’s a wonder there isn’t a nationwide grain-of-salt shortage.
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Garrison Keillor is leaving hints that he’s about to hang it up.
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You’ll be seeing and hearing more of Garrison Keillor in the coming weeks. The humorist, normally a pretty reticent sort except between and 5 and 7 p.m. on Saturdays, is pushing a new book at the same time he’s observing the 40th anniversary of his show. After leading everyone to believe he would retire a Read more →
Eleven years ago tomorrow night, Garrison Keillor had the most unenviable job in Minnesota. Read more →