The Northwest Arts Center at Minot State University is showcasing a diverse selection of contemporary art and a solo exhibit by an internationally recognized Midwest artist. A reception and online viewing will be held on Thursday from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Northwest Arts Center at Minot State ...
Award-winning, GRAMMY-nominated artist Jelly Roll is set to take the stage at the North Dakota State Fair on Sunday, July 20, headlining the State Fair’s concert lineup. Fresh off the release of his 2024 album “Beautifully Broken,” which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 All Genre ...
Rising country music sensation Bailey Zimmerman will kick off the North Dakota State Fair’s Grandstand Showpass performances on Friday, July 18. Known for hits such as “Fall in Love” and “Rock and a Hard Place,” Zimmerman continues to captivate fans with his chart-topping songs and ...
The Minot Symphony Orchestra is looking for lyricists and poets to help celebrate its 100th season in 2025-26. Through a collaboration with Minot State University, student, community and professional musicians come together to make up the symphony, currently under the direction of conductor Efrain Amaya of the MSU music faculty. “We are asking writers, wordsmiths and poets with a deep connection to the Magic City to submit a 20 to 40 line poem to be considered to celebrate Minot in all things the Magic City represents,” MSO Executive Director Ellen Fenner told the Minot City ...
Fourteen days from now, the inhabitants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will change. It might or might not be as you wished it would be. Some are excited and hopeful about what the next four years hold while others are less convinced. Either way, with another election behind us, perhaps we can find a way to tone things down. As John Lennon explained in a 1969 song, “All we are saying, is give peace a chance.” In the fall of 1960 Richard Nixon and John Kennedy were vying for keys to the White House. During fourth grade social studies class, Mrs. Keiser spent most of an hour bending our ...
Although typically walking home from elementary school in November, 1959, I instead waited in the building’s entry as snowflakes flew sideways past the front door. Mother would pick me up that day. On either side of the narrow passage were windowed display cases, the contents of which changed from time to time. That particular day, words not typically encountered by fourth graders like me were thumbtacked inside along with an explanation of their meanings. One lengthy word caught my eye. I decided to memorize how to spell the unfamiliar word, and began to repeat the letters over and ...
