He'll be holding a similar event with Rybak and DFL Congressman Keith Ellison at the University of Minnesota at 2:30 on the same day. Messina is also in town to raise money. A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor is hosting a fundraiser at his...

Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College’s convocation keynote speech was delivered by American author, monologist and radio personality Garrison Keillor to a packed house at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Keillor, who is from...

“There is a kind of curtain between people who have recognition already and people who are less sure of their writing. Poetry is a significant way to discover yourself and stay in touch with yourself.” A highlight of Swanger’s poetry career was when...

First, the good news: In “Even Critics of Safety Net Depend on It Increasingly,” Binyamin Appelbaum and Robert Gebeloff examine recessionary life in Chisago County, Minnesota, northeast of the Twin Cities and somewhat farther north of Anoka, the real...

Wait ... Don't Tell Me." Locally the show may be heard at 11 a.m. Saturdays on 90.1 FM. Since it went on the air in 1998, the show has "grown in popularity and audience size," Poundstone said. She got the job after her nanny suggested she do it, she...

Why did you start this blog? What are your goals for publishing 365 Pretty Good Reasons? The "pretty good" business, of course, is pirated from Garrison Keillor's Pretty Good Poems and Pretty Good Groceries. The idea of "365 Pretty Good Reasons"...