Garrison Keillor News

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

"Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith, left, with the host of "A Prairie Home Companion," Garrison Keillor.

Each week The Advocate asks a different "quiz taker" for his or her current favorites in pop culture.

Author and humorist David Sedaris will appear Wednesday night at the Sunset Center in Carmel as a part of the 2009 tour for his book A'When You Are Engulfed in Flames.A' It's not often that one gets the chance to hear some of the most familiar voices of National Public Radio live on local stages of the Monterey Peninsula - let alone two in the span ...

Arts & Lectures Brings NPR's Most Famous Export Back to S.B. Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Every Saturday evening for the past 35 years, millions of Americans have twiddled the dials on their stereos and tuned in to the comedy, folk music, tall tales, and generally unbeatable old-fashioned fun that is A Prairie Home Companion .

"an intimate evening of story and conversation" with Garrison Keillor, host of NPR's " A Prairie Home Companion " and author .

Evidently some people were disappointed that Dick Cheney didn't receive the Nobel Peace Prize and believe me, I sympathize -- I thought Philip Roth should've gotten the literature prize instead of that grumpy Romanian lady with the severe hair -- but it was Mr.

Jim Lauderdale, Wednesday night at the Alys Stephens Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

But don't worry, all the usual re-tread unfunny jokes and faux modesty you've come to expect from A Prairie Home Companion is on display as well.

Seattle-based Cray Inc. is taking 51,000 square feet at Galtier Plaza, which will be renamed Cray Plaza.

Radio, stage and screen star Garrison Keillor will perform 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Mabee Center, the venue confirmed.

Radio show host Garrison Keillor at his Prairie Home Productions office in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Sept.