Last season was an unqualified success for Saint Paul's Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. The Ordway enjoyed a boost in total attendance, with 359,000 patrons for 2006-07. And the Ordway also reported a surplus of $422,000 for the season. The three principal tenants for the Ordway included
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01/30/2008
Blogging about the Arts in your community can bring you business. Whether your community is large or small, there are likely dozens and dozens of local organizations, large and small, that are often overlooked in Localism posts. There is more to the quality of life in a community than schools, t
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01/29/2008
Brad Eggen is an attorney, a trumpet player and a local Union President. And his opinions are respected by members of labor and management alike, something of a rarity these days.Brad serves as elected President of the Twin Cities Musicians' Union, American Federation of Musicians, Local 30-73 A
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01/29/2008
High-quality music downloads are finally available online! Traditionally, music downloads available on the Web suffer from poor quality and file compression which clips off the highs and lows, leaving you with music that wouldn't sound halfway decent on a home stereo system. Two pioneering compan
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01/24/2008
I received an email solicitation today from a website called "CityBlogUSA". The site promotes itself as "community-based blogging for everyone". It appears these folks are selling territories, which is nothing new on the Web. You select your state and city (by clicking "claim this city") and th
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01/17/2008
When you think of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, it's likely you aren't aware of the educational opportunities available there. The Guthrie now offers a huge number of classes to the public. Offerings include how-to classes in vocal delivery, speech inflection and speech effectiveness, tap
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01/12/2008
The news media is abuzz over the prospect that Northwest Airlines and Delta may merge into a single airline. And in the Minneapolis & Saint Paul area (Northwest's hub city), the story is page one news! News anchorpeople have been speculating for days about the result of such a merger. The merge
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01/12/2008
Gertrude Ingeborg Henderson died this past week, at the age of 101. She was born in 1906, the year of the Great San Francisco earthquake. Her parents, Axel and Nellie Schoen, came to America from Sweden in the 1890s. Gertrude was a teacher, a violinist, a mother, a grandmother, a great-grandmo
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01/12/2008
In December 2007, AARP (the American Association of Retired Persons) unveiled a two-hundred page report which detailed a variety of abusive practices by some in the Reverse Mortgage Industry. Among other things, it appears some reverse mortgage companies are selling products with grossly excessi
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01/08/2008
This morning, I had to rely on experience to get me out of a jam. I started out the day commenting on a couple of posts here on AR. But about 9 a.m., I dragged myself away from the computer and drove to Saint Paul, to perform the Dvorak Mass in D at the Church of Saint Agnes. We perform these L
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01/06/2008
