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Slideshows: A Prairie Home Companion, Stachefest, and more

A Prairie Home Companion returned to the State Theater this weekend, delighting audiences with its down-home humor and engrossing storytelling and featuring some amazing musical talent.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Theater, Arts

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Tallahassee Democrat

Garrison Keillor: The naked truth about art appreciation

I was in Chicago with time on my hands and the sweet woman murmured to me - you know how this goes - "Would you like to see the Art Institute?" and I was thinking No No No God No, and I said, "Sure. Fine." "You wouldn't rather do something else?" she said.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Opinion

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Mountain Xpress

WCU to host a An Evening With Garrison Keillora

Tickets go on sale Monday, Nov. 30, for an appearance at Western Carolina University by Garrison Keillor, host of the popular public radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." An acclaimed author, storyteller, humorist and musician, Keillor will take center stage in WCU's Fine and Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Monday, March 8. Reserved seat tickets ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion

WCCO-TV

Keillor Performance To Be Beamed To Movie Theaters

It may be the next best thing to seeing Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" live.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Vocal

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Cybergrass

Steve Wariner on 'A Prairie Home Companion' November 21st

Award-winning country recording artist, guitarist, songwriter and producer Steve Wariner will be a guest on A Prairie Home Companion this Saturday, November 21, as it airs live from the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at 5 p.m. CST.

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Related Topix: Steve Wariner, Comedy Movies, Music!, Country, A Prairie Home Companion, Minneapolis, MN, Chet Atkins, Vocal

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Prairie Home Companion musician to play Christmas show in Suffolk

Peter Ostroushko will bring a bit of Ukranian flavor to the area's holiday festivities with a concert Dec.

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Related Topix: Suffolk, VA, Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Peter Ostroushko, Folk, Norman Blake, Music, Entertainment

Creative Loafing

Neko Case tonight

It says something about Neko Case 's footprint in the zeitgeist that she's been celebrated by punk rock champion and po-mo critic Greil Marcus and been invited to play Garrison Keillor's suddenly-less-corny A Prairie Home Companion .

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Related Topix: Neko Case, Pop/Rock, Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Vocal, Theater, Arts, Virginia

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Tallahassee Democrat

Garrison Keillor: Pass the peace and get it done

There are some things we will never understand. Death, for one. I overheard a woman in the drugstore say, "He went in to the hospital yesterday and he was eating his supper and then he fell asleep and then he died.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, US News, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Weather, Opinion

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Arts and Events from The Daily Collegian

'Pilgrams: A Wobegon Romance'

The most striking facet of "Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance," the latest novel from Garrison Keillor, is that it somewhat unintentionally constitutes an attempt toward a modern adaptation of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." Lake Wobegon, for readers unfamiliar with Keillor's work, is a fictional place in Minnesota that Keillor has used as a setting in ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion

Thu Nov 12, 2009

City Pages

Playboy gives Mickey's Dining Car Cafe the thumbs up

The tasty greasy spoon was placed on a national register of historic places in 1983.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Meryl Streep, Pop/Rock, Lindsay Lohan

Cincinnati CityBeat

Onstage: Queen City Brass

For the past two decades, the Queen City Brass has been one of the area's most renowned wind ensembles as well as one of the busiest.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Cincinnati, OH, Xavier University

Mon Nov 09, 2009

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Sophia says: Here are 5 things you can't miss this weekend.

Lawrence Quartet is one of my favorite ensembles to experience live because the players interact with such excitement.

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Related Topix: Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro, Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Theater, Arts

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Tallahassee Democrat

Garrison Keillor: Enjoy what life's Variety Pack hands you

It costs $722 to fly from St. Paul/Minneapolis to Bismarck, N.D., and you can fly from St.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Bismarck Metro, Bismarck, ND, Bernie Madoff, Opinion

Thu Nov 05, 2009

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Datebook Best Bets: Nov. 5-12

The show starts at 5 p.m., but audience members should be in their seats by 4:45 p.m. Apparently Keillor and crew are latching onto the fact that Des Moines appears to be a French name, as they plan to bring 'a touch of French flavor to the Midwest.' Here's the description of the broadcast from the show's Web site: The grande rendezvous will ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro, Ethnic, Beausoleil, Villisca, IA

Post-Bulletin

Brighter Side -- the bright side of the daily news

Garrison Keillor's coming back to Rochester in January and it's not for a medical appointment.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Rochester Metro, Rochester, MN, Zumbrota, MN

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Santa Barbara Independent

Garrison Keillor at the Arlington

Just beneath the dry wit he's always been a big softie, but Garrison Keillor's recent stroke seems to have focused him especially keenly on what it means to be alive.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Post-Bulletin

Garrison Keillor schedules Rochester 'Prairie'

"A Prairie Home Companion" will return to Rochester for a live radio broadcast on Jan.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Rochester Metro, Rochester, MN, Zumbrota, MN

RecordNET

Jazz trio goes from Keillor to California

It's only "happenstance," Butch Thompson said. It also happens to be fitting that his old-time jazz trio is starting its current tour in Lodi, just the sort of small-town American community Garrison Keillor has so pleasantly and wittily ennobled for so many years.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, Butch Thompson, Jazz, Minnesota Government, Minnesota, New Orleans

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

Keillor, - Companion' return to Spokane for live broadcast November 1, 2009

Garrison Keillor 's "A Prairie Home Companion" is returning to Spokane for a live broadcast, June 12 at the Star Theatre in the Spokane Arena, sponsored by Spokane Public Radio.

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Related Topix: Spokane Metro, Spokane, WA, Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Tallahassee.com

Garrison Keillor: This is when the tough need to get going

The former Marine officer Matthew Hoh, who resigned his Foreign Service post in Afghanistan because he feels the war is pointless and not worth dying for, deserves all the attention he's gotten and more.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, A Prairie Home Companion, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, San Francisco, CA

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