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Members of the Bemidji Choir and the Chamber Singers will leave for their annual spring tour concerts today. They will be performing in Roseville, Monticello and Crosby during the next three days before returning for a Home Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Main Theatre. Shown above, director Bradley Logan, professor of music rehearses with the Bemidji Choir. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

BSU Choir plans spring concert tour

Members of the Bemidji Choir and the Chamber Singers will leave for their annual spring tour concerts today. They will be performing in Roseville, Monticello and Crosby during the next...

entertainment / music Wed, Mar 20, 2013 - 10:33pm

Cory J. Renbarger is seen as the villainous Marullo in Verdi’s “Rigoletto” performed by the Florida Grand Opera. Submittted Photo

Bemidji State’s new voice professor to present premiere recital

BEMIDJI—If passion is what makes a great performer and teacher, Cory Renbarger can claim that distinction, for on his office door is the anonymous quote: “Music is what feelings sound...

entertainment / music Wed, Mar 20, 2013 - 10:14pm

The Farm to perform at Sanford Center

BEMIDJI – Homes for Heroes of Bemidji have partnered with the Sanford Center to bring country music trio, The Farm, to Bemidji. The performance is set for 8 p.m. June...

entertainment / music Wed, Mar 20, 2013 - 4:08pm

Medical marijuana facility partners with rapper

OTISVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan medical marijuana facility is partnering with a member of the Grammy-winning rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to cultivate and distribute a new strain of medical...

entertainment / music Wed, Mar 20, 2013 - 2:28pm

Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, speaks to someone at Baker Street underground station in London, for a visit to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made her first public engagement in more than a week Wednesday after cancellations following her hospitalization for a stomach bug. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) Copyright 2013, The Associated Press

Pregnant Kate gets 'Baby on Board' badge

LONDON (AP) — Thoughtful workers on London's subway system Wednesday gave the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge a "Baby on Board" badge — in case she ever needs to ask commuters...

entertainment Wed, Mar 20, 2013 - 2:23pm

In this March 2, 2009 file photo, Neal Schon poses for a photograph during a news conference at a mall in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. Schon, the lead guitarist for the rock band Journey has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis that accuses his former mother-in-law of libeling him in her blog posts. Schon's lawsuit says Kozan suggested that he has failed to support his ex-wife and their two daughters. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Copyright 2009, The Associated Press

Journey guitarist sues ex-mother-in-law for libel

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The lead guitarist for the rock band Journey has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis that accuses his former mother-in-law of libeling him in her blog posts...

entertainment / music Wed, Mar 20, 2013 - 10:48am

The preparation for this weekend’s Coors Bull Riding Challenge is under way with the ice in the hockey arena removed. More than 700 cubic yards of special dirt will be replacing it. Crews from Anderson Contracting of Bemidji begin the task of placing dirt in the arena Tuesday afternoon. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Coors Bull Riding Challenge coming to Sanford Center in Bemidji

BEMIDJI - A new challenge faces the preparation of this year’s Coors Bull Riding Challenge at the Sanford Center in Bemidji. A whole lot of snow is covering the stored...

entertainment Tue, Mar 19, 2013 - 11:24pm

Condoleezza Rice writing book on democracy

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is working on a book about democracy. Henry Holt and Company announced Tuesday that the book, currently untitled, will be...

entertainment / writing Tue, Mar 19, 2013 - 3:10pm

FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers, right, stands next to a poster that shows a Rembrandt painting and a reward during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Boston, March 18, 2013. The FBI believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole art valued at up to $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Copyright 2013, The Associated Press

FBI focuses on recovering art stolen in Mass.

BOSTON (AP) — Just after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men posing as police officers pulled off the single largest property heist in U.S. history, stealing 13 pieces of...

entertainment / art Tue, Mar 19, 2013 - 12:19pm

This CD cover image released by Sub Pop shows "The Invisible Way," by Low. (AP Photo/Sub Pop) Copyright 2013, The Associated Press

Review: Low continues to soar on 'Invisible Way'

Low, "The Invisible Way" (Sub Pop) The husband-and-wife team of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker form the core of the Duluth, Minn.-based group Low. Their latest studio album, "The Invisible...

entertainment / music Tue, Mar 19, 2013 - 10:46am

In this June 7, 2009 file photo, actors perform a segment from the show Guys and Dolls at the 63rd annual Tony Awards in New York. Producers of the show were forced to find a new home for the 2011 event after Cirque du Soleil moved into the 6,000-seat Rockefeller Center arena. For the past two years, the Tonys were handed out at the Beacon Theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Copyright 2009, The Associated Press

Tony Awards to head back to Radio City Music Hall

NEW YORK (AP) — The Tony Awards are going back to the place where the Rockettes high-kick it. The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the...

entertainment / theater Mon, Mar 18, 2013 - 4:00pm

Free E-'Da Vinci Code' offered until March 24

NEW YORK (AP) — Ten years and tens of millions of copies later, "The Da Vinci Code" is on the house. Doubleday announced Monday that a free e-book edition of...

entertainment / writing Mon, Mar 18, 2013 - 2:36pm

This publicity photo shows Toyo Ito's Yatsushiro Municipal Museum, in Yatsushiro-shi, Kumamoto, Japan. Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday, March 17, 2013. Ito, the sixth Japanese architect to receive the prize, is recognized for the libraries, houses, theaters, offices and other buildings he has designed in Japan and beyond. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, Tomio Ohashi) Copyright 2013, The Associated Press

Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker...

entertainment Mon, Mar 18, 2013 - 9:41am

Pioneer Previews for March 17: Monroe Crossing to present concert

BEMIDJI – Monroe Crossing, world class bluegrass entertainers, will appear at the Historic Chief Theater, 314 Bemidji Ave. A popular group with area bluegrass fans, Monroe Crossing has played to...

entertainment Sat, Mar 16, 2013 - 11:00pm

Austin Brown, left, Chris Rupp, Jim Foust, Adam Rupp and Rob Lundquist – the five members of Home Free Vocal Band – performed a mini-concert to Bemidji Middle School students Thursday. The band will perform at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the high school auditorium. Two high school show choirs, Vocalmotive and La Voce Ballo, also perform with Home Free. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Home Free Vocal Band performs mini-concert

Austin Brown, left, Chris Rupp, Jim Foust, Adam Rupp and Rob Lundquist – the five members of Home Free Vocal Band – performed a mini-concert to Bemidji Middle School students...

entertainment / music Thu, Mar 14, 2013 - 11:31pm

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