Bad weather cancels Luke Bryan’s Eyota show
EYOTA, Minn. – Because of pending thunderstorms, a mega-concert by country singer Luke Bryan [...]
Grants to Winona film fest, arts center
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Southeast Minnesota Arts Council awarded $5,000 grants to both the [...]
Gallery debut: Literary arts exhibit
“Wake Up Island.” A print from hand-cut woodblock by Duluth artist Nick Wroblewski. The [...]
Museum exhibits explore human-sea linkages
WINONA, Minn. -- Works of three artists, all using different mediums, have been hung [...]
ORC clients express selves in new mural
Mosaic. On exterior wall at 1053 East Mark Street. Pieces coming together [...]
Museum performance: The albatross of yore
WINONA, Minn. -- A production of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s classic “The Rime of the [...]
Ashley arts fest earns $700,000
Charity fund-raiser. The annual three-day Ashley for the Arts music festival in Arcadia earned [...]
WSU fall entertainment starter: Second City
Rotating cast. Chicago-based troupe typically has a cast of six on the road. College [...]
Author’s tip to avoid strife: The right words
WINONA, Minn. – After raising kids and having grandkids and teaching music to dozens [...]
Bridge includes midstream bus stops, river steps
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The City Council, dazzled by architects' renderings of a new Zumbro [...]
Posthumously recounting a life worth living
WINONA, Minn. – When the long-term Winona activist Joe Morse learned he was dying [...]
At Ashley fest, REO Speedwagon waited out storm
ARCADIA, Wis. – A weather alert forced managers of the Ashley for the Arts [...]
Music wafting among a cemetery’s peace
Afternoon concert. At the 1884 chapel and public mausoleum. Musicians hope for gifts to [...]
Hope: Fixing Galesville’s Old Main for 2024 season
GALESVILLE, Wis. – The president of the board that runs the city-owned Old Main [...]
Tattooist shutters studio amid body parts indictment
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. – The tattooist Matthew R. Lampi has closed his Get [...]
Charge: Minnesota tattooist trafficked in body parts
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. – A sought-after Minnesota tattoo artist whose work includes the [...]
Library resumes tours of art treasures
WINONA, Minn. – To mark the upcoming 125th anniversary of the Winona Public Library, [...]
Cotter assumes control of SMU arts conservatory
Learning dance. Most classes are by age groups. Enrollment open to whole community. Private [...]
SMU ends arts conservatory in curriculum do-over
WINONA, Minn. – The shrinking of arts curriculums at Saint Mary’s University has taken [...]
Eclectic performers bring chuckles, awe to river towns
WINONA, Minn. – A troupe of musicians, circus performers and puppeteers calling itself the [...]
Zoning variances OK’d for Masterpiece concert hall
WINONA, Minn. – The city Adjustment Board, which enforces zoning requirements, has exempted the [...]
Dark murder mystery drama opens at Winona High
The Manninghams. Jonathan Roberts as Jack Manningham. Lacey Korb as Bella Manningham. You fIgure [...]
Fountain City music fest: Lonely Knees
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. -- The 2023 Fountain City “Rhythms by the River” concert season [...]
Limbo: What next for Masterpiece Hall
Big glass cube. One issue for Winona Historic Preservation Commission purists is the 46-foot [...]
Awkward place to be: Preservationists feel fenced in
WINONA Minn.—The chair of the Winona Historic Preservation Commission, Emily Kurash Casey, wants to [...]
Preservation panel hesitates on Masterpiece Hall
Angular, glassy look. Preservationists don’t see a fit with the 1899 domed neoclassical library [...]
First look: World-class Winona concert hall
Biesanz stone, of course. Architectect Jason Woodhouse said the acoustically balanced concert hall will [...]
Romance author brings book-signing tour to Winona
WINONA, Minn. – A Minnesota romance novelist who’s been a television celebrity baker, Abby [...]
Family memories in Winona high drama
Not quite a cast of thousands. But more than we can list in this [...]
Sagging floor closes third-floor venue at Galesville
GALESVILLE, Wis. – An intimate 80-seat theater in the third floor of Old Main [...]
Eyota again on Luke Bryan’s radar
EYOTA, Minn. – Country singer Luke Bryan says he likes Eyota and thinks Eyota [...]
Musical lineup set for Steamboat Days
WINONA, Minn. – The Steamboat Days committee has partnered with Hurry Back Productions for [...]
H30 jamming this time for Farmers Market
Like father, like sons. The H3O Jazz Trio, comprising father Eric Heukeshoven and sons [...]
Debut for Lake Winona film documentary
filmmaker Mary Farrell, chronicling a citizen project to improve the quality of Lake Winona, [...]
About that country twang at Kwik Trips
SAUK CITY, Wis. – The people who run Kwik Trip couldn’t resist when they [...]
SMU musician couple retiring with alumni reunion
WINONA, Minn. – After 30 years of making music at Saint Mary’s University, Eric [...]
Shakespeare’s “Midsummer” at WSU
WINONA, Minn. – A student production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” opens Tuesday [...]
And what color would you like your sweater?
Shucks. The Easter visuals will be gone by shearing time. Gawkers welcome: 11277 Janus [...]
Mid West Music Fest taps new director
WINONA, Minn. – A Saint Mary's University alum, Sam Trueson, has been named executive [...]
Ashley signs Walk the Moon for music fest
ARCADIA, Wis. – The music festival Ashley for the Arts has lined up its [...]
Upcoming WSU guest lecture: Art and community
WINONA, Minn. – The executive director of the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council in St. [...]
An ode to spring in Easter pastels on Highway 16
HOUSTON, Minn. – The season-mindful Beckmans, Kelly and Mike. have their driveway oak on [...]
Winona composer Blunt Blade with debut album
WINONA, Minn. – The global music site Spotify has picked up the self-titled album [...]
“Sondheim” marks dismantling of SMU fine arts
WINONA, Minn. – The grande dame of Saint Mary’s theater, Judy Ann Myers, is [...]
WSU Lyceum speaker cancels March event
WINONA, Minn. –The actress-author Jennette McCurdy cancelled a speaking visit to Winona State, the [...]
“Glass Menagerie” opens Friday at WSU
WINONA Minn. -- A campus production of Tennessee Williams’ break-out 1944 drama “The Glass [...]
Like your coffee at a ritzy shop? On a park bench?
WINONA, Minn. – The Theatre du Mississippi troupe opens a three-run production of the [...]
Sphinx Virtuosi opens Beethoven Festival
Self-directed chamber performance. At Winona’s Lake Park. June [...]
WSU dancers explore grief in performance
WINONA, Minn. – The annual Dancescape performance at Winona State University begins a three-night [...]
Love, tangled and otherwise, on stage
LANESBORO, Minn. – A Valentine’s variety show with music, poetry and theater is coming [...]
Teen artist creates Winona mug series
WINONA, Minn. – A keepsake mug with Winona images has been created by a [...]
Author to read to kids from her “Barnyard Tough”
WINONA, Minn. – Children’s author Jenny Baertsch of Winona will read from her book [...]
Keinen woodblock prints at Winona museum
WINONA, Minn. – Works of Japanese woodblock print-maker Omao Keinen will be on exhibit [...]
Islam group backs Hamline art prof
WASHINGTON – The Muslim Public Affairs Council declared there was nothing Islamophobic in a [...]
Prof: Her reputation sullied in Islamic brouhaha
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A part-time art instructor sued Hamline University, saying she was [...]
Profs demand Hamline president resign
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Faculty voted 71-19 for Hamline University President Fayneese Miller to [...]
Hamline president backtracks on Islam art issue
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Amid growing criticism, the president of Hamline University, Fayneese Miller, [...]
Author-actor McCurdy adds WSU to tour
WINONA, Minn. –The child actor Jennette McCurdy, now an author, will speak March 22 [...]
Lost your mittens? Check here
HOUSTON, Minn. – It seems that Kelly and Mike Beckman keep finding mittens along [...]
You too can craft Kurinuki in clay, ceramic
WINONA. Minn. --- Sculpturist Anne Scott Plummer is offering a six-month series of workshops [...]