While Rep. Kristi Noem had to spend her weekend up in Bismarck boring the NDGOP convention, Senator John Thune got to dance the night away with big donors at Van Halen concert in D.C.: Scott Brown, R-Mass., will be joining…
Posts tagged as “music”
Feist is our kids. The dancers are we teachers. And our legislators are the narrow-minded corporate-hack producers who don't understand good music. 1234, that's the bill we need to kill. Sleepless long nights Merit pay makes teachers ill. Old ALEC…
It's Friday night—let's hear some good news! Last spring I was far from alone in lamenting the end of Uncle Jimmo's reign over the public airwaves. Our Legislature, apparently determined to extinguish arts and culture in all forms from our…
...and other vaguely videographical notes... I feel dirty, downright filthy, running the same press release as Bob Ellis. But as Ellis's newly rebranded American Carrion reports, Rep. Stace Nelson is in the movies! Nelson is a featured expert in The…
I am thankful that South Dakota Public Radio provides its great mix of news and music programming to counter the mindless commercial drivel and conformity coming out of most radio stations in South Dakota. But with their in-house music staff…
You may recall that earlier this year, the Madison City Commission denied the Madison Area Arts Council's request to block off the south end of Main Street for an evening of live music and other frivolity. Commissioners fretted that blocking…
Let's start the morning with a little musical crie de coeur. Banjo man Steve Martin does us secular humanists a favor by producing the Atheist's Hymnal... all one page of it. Hallelujah! Time to throw some underpants in the washer.
Hey, I met the band! Well, one member of one band playing the big Motongator Joe Country Music Festival at Prairie Village this weekend. The Divine Miss K and I dropped by Dakota Drug for the rummage sale being held…