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Bemidji Area Community Band looks back, forward

BEMIDJI - When the baton goes down on the first concert of the 2012 Bemidji Area Community Band, two well-known and respected musicians will be missing from the group. The...

news / entertainment Thu, Jun 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Prime Time: W.S. Gilbert's take on a late Victorian fad

In December I described a Thanksgiving drive to Cambridge and back. On March 21, I took the same route to Cambridge, staying with son Stuart and his wife, Carol, in...

news / local / entertainment Tue, Jun 12, 2012 - 12:00am

Pioneer Previews: Library hosts book festival

The Bemidji Public Library 2012 Bemidji Library Book Festival starts Monday with the following authors and events: E 10:30 a.m. at the Library, 509 America Ave. NW, with children's author...

news / local / entertainment Sun, Jun 10, 2012 - 12:00am

Fans jam with the musical group DNA Thursday afternoon at the annual June 7 Youth Rally. Daylong activities were planned for the youth at Bemidji City Park. Members of DNA are, from left, Dan Will, Jacob Arndt and Aaron Schnackenberg. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

June 7 Youth Rally draws kids for music, outdoor activities

BEMIDJI - This year's change in location from the Bemidji Lakefront to the City Park was a concern for Youth Rally organizers, but the word seemed to have spread by...

news / local / entertainment Fri, Jun 08, 2012 - 12:00am

Muirhead competing in Think-Off Saturday

NEW YORK MILLS, Minn. -- This year's Great American Think-Off marks the 20th year of the celebration of philosophy by debating the same question as the inaugural Think-Off two decades...

news / local / entertainment Fri, Jun 08, 2012 - 12:00am

What started out Thursday as a fun evening of doing mime in their full body Morph suits turned out to be scary for Brekt and Haakan Thorsgaard. The youngsters, age 11 and 13, wanted to try out the effect of their new attire while doing some mime (gestures and actions to simulate words). The police arrived on the scene - Lueken's Village Foods South - because calls had come into the station about two people, dressed in black, who were acting suspiciously. A quick doffing of their hoods revealed the boys, ...

Mimes create surprise in Bemidji

What started out Thursday as a fun evening of doing mime in their full body Morph suits turned out to be scary for Brekt and Haakan Thorsgaard. The youngsters, age...

news / local / entertainment Fri, Jun 08, 2012 - 12:00am

Harlan Hegna is working on his documentary "Finding Faith," a project that led him to the Middle East. He visited the Evangelical Lutheran School in Beit Sahour, Palestine, where he filmed a 30-minute documentary about the four Lutheran schools there. Hegna said he was given a place to stay for a week in exchange for volunteering to make a film to raise awareness about the schools. submitted photo

Faith journey leads Bemidji native to Israel

BEMIDJI - A journey to discover his own faith has led Harlan Hegna to take a pilgrimage to Israel. Born and raised in Bemidji, Hegna, 27, is an independent filmmaker...

news / local / entertainment Thu, Jun 07, 2012 - 12:00am

Bemidji High School graduate Alle Bowman plays the leading role in "The Spitfire Grill," the first show of the Paul Bunyan Playhouse 2012 summer season at the historic Chief Theater. Bowman plays Percy Talbot, who tries to get her life back on track in a small Wisconsin town. She brings to the role all the emotional energy of a young woman coping with life as it is while striving for a brighter future. The story of life in small town America told in words and music. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Young Bemidji actor takes center stage at Playhouse

BEMIDJI - When the house lights go dark and the spotlight comes up on a solitary character, center stage, a young Bemidji actor will be singing and setting the stage...

news / entertainment / local Thu, Jun 07, 2012 - 12:00am

From a singer's point of view, Matthew Goinz is seen conducting the chorus in a rendition of Humming Chorus from Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" in preparation for Opera Night. patt rall | Bemidji Pioneer

Bemidji State grad Goinz continues journey as aspiring orchestra, choral director

BEMIDJI - Matthew Goinz is back in town after spending the last year the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he is studying for a master's degree in music with...

news / entertainment / local Thu, Jun 07, 2012 - 12:00am

From left, actresses Bonni Allen, Nancy Marvy and Alle Bowman rehearse a scene Tuesday for the play "The Spitfire Grill," tonight's opener for the Paul Bunyan Playhouse's professional summer stock theater season. The heartwarming musical runs through June 16, with performances at 8 p.m. tonight through Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. June 13-16, at the Chief Theatre. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

'Spitfire Grill' lives up to its name

BEMIDJI - How many of us would like a second chance, an opportunity to make a new life in a place chosen from a beautiful picture - a place where...

news / local / entertainment Wed, Jun 06, 2012 - 12:00am

Pioneer Previews: 'Spitfire Grill' to open Playhouse season

Paul Bunyan Playhouse opens the season with the folk and bluegrass musical/drama "The Spitfire Grill" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, with evening performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week and...

news / local / entertainment Sun, Jun 03, 2012 - 12:00am

In this July 20, 2005, photo, Ian Harvey, of Northern Ireland, gets ready to take his new row boat out at the Duluth, Minn., Rowing Club on Park Point. When Ian Harvey set out to row the length of Lake Superior in 2005 to raise money for charity, he didn't know the 400-mile trip from Duluth to Whitefish Point Harbor in Michigan would catch the attention of members of the Bear Clan in Munising, Mich., whose ancestors made a similar trek in the 1800s that ended in a deadly battle with the Sioux. The film "...

Film explores rower's Lake Superior odyssey

DULUTH, Minn. - When Ian Harvey set out to row the length of Lake Superior in 2005, he expected the blisters under blisters, the seat pain and the unpredictable conditions...

news / outdoors / entertainment Sun, Jun 03, 2012 - 12:00am

Free Indeed features, from left: Annie Hendrickson, Hannah Hendrickson, Alice Fuglestad and Josiah Hendrickson. Patt Rall | Bemidji Pioneer

Family band kicks off summer concert series

BEMIDJI - Free Indeed, a three-generation country gospel group, will be the opening act for this year's Bemidji State Park Concert Series. The concerts at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the...

news / entertainment / local Thu, May 31, 2012 - 12:00am

Oscar Julin from Davis Drywall removes scaffolding at the rear of the newly painted exterior of the historic Chief Theater, home of the Paul Bunyan Playhouse. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

New-look Playhouse: 'The Chief' gets a facelift as summer play season nears

BEMIDJI - It's a race to get renovations to the Paul Bunyan Playhouse finished in time for the opening of the first play, now less than a week away, but...

news / entertainment Thu, May 31, 2012 - 12:00am

Eighteen sculptures were installed in downtown Bemidji within the past week, but the yellow submarine by Allen Belleveau Sr. of Puposky is receiving quite a bit of attention. Ivan Smith, left, and Caleb Belleveau get a peek inside Tuesday before the hatch is locked shut. The submarine, on Second Street Northwest, has been a work in progress over the last 10 years. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Sculpture Walk taking shape

Eighteen sculptures were installed in downtown Bemidji within the past week, but the yellow submarine by Allen Belleveau Sr. of Puposky is receiving quite a bit of attention. Ivan Smith,...

news / entertainment / local Wed, May 30, 2012 - 12:00am

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