The Magic City Jazz Festival will bring a number of talented musicians and guest artists to Minot Feb. 9 and 10 for a jazz-filled weekend. The Friday evening concert will be held at 7 p.m. at Minot State University in Ann Nicole Nelson Hall. The concert will feature jazz music performed by ...

Minot’s brass band will present a concert, “Music to Brighten the Winter,” at 4 p.m. on Sunday at Minot State University’s Ann Nicole Nelson Hall. As North Dakota’s only British-style brass band, Brass Band of Minot has been bringing music to North Dakota since 1994, when it was ...

Last week I attended this year’s annual AZA Directors’ Policy Conference to meet with CEOs, and directors from AZA accredited zoos and aquariums across the nation and from around the world. I don’t recall exactly when we began holding this meeting of zoo and aquarium leadership but do ...

Over the next few months, both the zoo and Roosevelt Park are anticipating the start of projects that will transform both for years to come. There have been years of planning, hours of meetings, drawings and revisions, and a lot of sleepless nights that has gotten us to this point. While it ...

I better understand Ozzie and Harriet’s son Ricky Nelson’s Garden Party frustration now. Mine began after hanging a bird feeder on our back patio to tempt yellow finches to pay us a visit. It didn’t take long to discover they are picky eaters who shy away from cheap seed that sparrows ...

A painting by North Dakota artist Scott Nelson of the scene when World War II pilot Maj. Gale “Buck” Cleven’s plane was shot down during World War II hangs in the Dakota Territory Air Museum’s Legends Hangar in Minot. Cleven, who was born in Lemmon, South Dakota, and in later years ...