Winona High orchestra students lauded
WINONA, Minn. –Winona Hugh School seniors Jasper Hedin and Anthony Bruguier were honored at [...]
$45 million for Winona-hung painting
NEW YORK – In a bidding battle, the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” which [...]
Art exhibit looks to capture trade winds
WINONA, Minn. – An exhibit by Minneapolis artist Sonja Peterson, who creates distinctive wall [...]
Eyota dairy on singer Luke Bryan’s fall tour
EYOTA, Minn. – Country singer Luke Bryan will be at Eyota for a barnyard [...]
WSU Common Book choice: “Marbles”
WINONA, Minn. – The Common Book committee at Winona State chose “Marbles” by autobiographical [...]
To Christie’s: “Washington Crossing Delaware”
NEW YORK – The most recognized work at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, “Washington [...]
New Winona water-media display debuts
WINONA, Minn. —A exhibit by Winona watercolorist Kathy Kovala runs through June 12 at [...]
Triple ensemble concert at Winona High
WINONA, Minn. – Three Winona High School ensembles have been tuning up for their [...]
Mid West Fest line-up adds queen event
WINONA, Minn. – Mid West sic Fest has added a pre-weekend event with the [...]
Accomplice in Baby Blue vandalism must pay up
LACROSSE, Wis. – A LaCrosse man has been ordered to pay $6,600 restitution for [...]
NUR-D launches free Riverside concerts
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Hiphop performer NUR-D will open the 31st year of the Down [...]
High School drama adventure in Narnia
WINONA, Minn. – The play “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” from the [...]
Melding the Bard: Performing and visual arts
WINONA, Minn. – An exhibit of Shakespeare-inspired art is being planned at the Slaggie [...]
Slaggie Gallery exhibits Winona-inspired art
WINONA, Minn. – An exhibit of work by Minneapolis artist Joan Porter-Einsman runs through [...]
Happy Easter even before the oaks bud
HOUSTON, Minn. – Motorists between LaCrescent and Houston have reported a seasonal pastel sideshow [...]
Three-show Root River music fest set
LANESBORO, Minn. – The socially and politically outspoken Twin Cities rock band Kiss the [...]
WSU paid record $55,000 for Che gig
WINONA, Minn. – The appearance of “Saturday Night Live” comedian Michael Che at Winona [...]
Red Wing musicians in cross-genre concert
RED WING, Minn. – Student and faculty musicians at the Red Wing campus of [...]
Carnegie concert on Winona High NYC itinerary
WINONA, Minn. —The Winona High School Orchestra is back from a musical and cultural [...]
School Board bans one book, keeps others
CADOTT, Wis. – The Cadott School Board began steering a middle course – cowardly, [...]
Music fest foresees 2,000 Winona tickets
WINONA, Minn. – Two-thousand passes will be sold for the Mud West Music fest [...]
When can you take Michael Che seriously
MINNEAPOLIS – Comedian Michael Che told an audience at a Minneapolis hair salon that [...]
Comedian Che: “Unlike politician, we tell truth”
WINONA, Minn. – In a departure from the usually high-brow Lyceum speaker series at [...]
Watercolors as grief-coping tool
WINONA, Minn. – Artist and teacher Faye Schoen will offer a class on dealing [...]
Rice’s post-pandemic art exhibit
LANESBORO, Minn. – An exhibit by Minneapolis print-maker Amy Rice runs through May 29 [...]
Shake, rattle, roll worrisome at Winona library
WINONA, Minn. –The Winona Public Library, one of the city’s architectural jewels, has had [...]
Linking school arts with world crisis
WINONA, Minn. – Teachers and students at Winona Schools aren’t waiting for the history [...]
WSU invites SNL satirist as Lyceum speaker
WINONA, Minn. – Social critic and satirist Michael Che, known for skits on the [...]
Good Time Gals’ happy tones to Winona
WINONA, Minn. – The vintage-inspired Miss Myra and the Good Times Gals will perform [...]
Art exhibit penetrates meaning of home
WINONA. Minn. – An art exhibit on notions of home, curated by Winona State [...]
Grant to aid historic church’s presevation
WINONA, Minn. – The Minnesota Historical Society granted $44,500 to the First Congregational Church [...]
West Coast band to Ashley playbill
ARCADIA, Wis. – The hard-rocker band Night Ranger has been added to the Ashley [...]
Island City jams charity total: $8,000
WINONA, Minn. – The chair of the Winona Arts Center, Debi Niebuhr, accepted a [...]
Country Jam lists pop, western, gospel mix
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – The Country Jam USA festival announced that Clay Walker, Diamond [...]
30 acts in three-stage Blue Ox line-up
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – The Blue Ox music festival opens June 23 with the [...]
Textile exhibit tells story of Hmong culture
WINONA, Minn. – An exhibit of Hmong flower cloth is open at the Minnesota [...]
Country Jam USA buys 160 remote acres
WHEATON, Wis. – The long-running festival Country Jam USA, now going into its 32nd [...]
One-act drama: “Exactly how sick am I, doc?”
WINONA, Minn. — Winona High School dramatists will perform “The Waiting Room,” a one-act [...]
Look in 2025 – and listen — for Masterpiece Hall
WINONA, Minn. – By May 2025 the new Minnesota Masterpiece Hall in Winona will [...]
Mittens to warm the soul on a cold, cold day
HOUSTON, Minn. -- No matter how bleak the day, motorists tooling along State Highway [...]
Midwest Music Fest corrals regional acts
WINONA, Minn. – Twin Cities guitarist Haley and the synch-pop band Polica have been [...]
Great River Shakespeare tickets on sale
WINONA, Minn. 2022 -- Four centuries after peaking as a prolific playwright, Shakespeare lives [...]
Ashley for Arts books Brooks & Dunn
ARCADIA, Wis. – The country music duo Brooks & Dunn has been booked as [...]
On drawing boards: Downtown concert hall
WINONA, Minn. – A classy state-of-art concert venue will be built on the edge [...]
Prince’s estate finally settled: $156 million
MINNEAPOLIS --The legal battle over the value of Minnesota song-writer genius and performer Prince’s [...]
Winning photo: Eagle’s sortie finale
WINONA, Minn. – Winona artist Cathy Richardson, known mostly for her glass creations, won [...]
Juried exhibit of teen art at Lanesboro
LANESBORO, Minn. – An exhibit of works by Fillmore County high school students runs [...]
On exhibit: A Covid therapy exercise
WINONA, Minn. – To help cope with unfolding events of the Covid pandemic, Minneapolis [...]
Charity jazz jams raise $7,300
WINONA, Minn. – The mknthly Jazz James that the H3O father-and-sons combo played at [...]
Like Greek headbands, boughs bind library columns
WINONA, Minn. – The Neoclassical Winona library on Fifth Street opened in 1899. It [...]
Lark Toys on list of world’s best
KELLOGG, Minn. – The travel site Trip Advisor listed Lark Toys at Kellogg among [...]
German Expressionism at Marine Art Museum
WINONA, Minn. – An exhibit of German expressionism continues through fall at the Minnesota [...]
Quickly! Quickly! Get off the tracks!
ALMA, Wis. –The trains don’t stop in Alma anymore. Nor in the heyday of [...]
Dance artist named as Frozen River curator
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona experimental dance artist, Sharon Mansur, has been named guest [...]
Winona artist Kiihne’s grand opus
WINONA, Minn. – A 30-piece exhibit by abstract minimalist Ray Kiihne of Winona opens [...]
UM: No exceptions even for firmer Covid rules
MINNEAPOLIS – The University if Minnesotan was left on the defensive when the grunge [...]
Covid standoff: Band nixes UM concert
MINNEAPOLIS – The grunge band Foo Fighters cancelled an August concert because the University [...]
Subtleties of light drive works in new exhibit
WINONA, Minn. – Landscape artist Jon Erickson, who prefers painting outdoors, not in a [...]
Guitarist Munson playing at Art Center
WINONA, Minn. – Country and blues strummer Mike Munson returns to the Winona Arts [...]
KROC mural: Keep it? Wipe it over?
ROCHESTER Minn. – The radio conglomerate that owns radio station KROC is making a [...]