Garrison Keillor News

All I want for Christmas is to live in Lake Wobegon. It's a fictional place where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking and all the children are above average." Only in the halls of Congress would anyone think it's real.

Turkey Confidential, an annual special from American Public Media's The Splendid Table, is offering cooks a chance to call in and have turkey questions answered live on public radio stations throughout the nation from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thanksgiving Day.

The Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie announces Foreigner, Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion: Live in HD" and "Selected Shorts." Tickets go on sale to Bardavon members at 11a.m. Dec.

Do It Today: Garrison Keillor, 'Til Death Do Us Part , or Lease A Wall November 24, 2009 at 12:00 am by Franki Weddington As a kid, my parents made me listen to every installment of Garrison Keillor 's A Prairie Home Companion on NPR .

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 .

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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.