Mar. 21—BEMIDJI — Applications for Region 2 Arts Councils’ new Artists Engage Community Grant are due by Monday, April 15. Artists Engage Community grants support the creation, production and presentation of high-quality arts activities that help instill the arts into the community and public life in the region. Arts activities proposed for funding must be […]
The governor of Texas has explained comments telling artists pulling out of an Austin festival over US Army sponsorship not to come back. Greg Abbott was in Downing Street on Wednesday to sign an agreement with the UK on closer trade co-operation with Texas. Speaking outside Number 10, Mr Abbott also said he and former […]
When Julie Ragbeer wrote the lyrics for her album Perplex six years ago, it’s doubtful she expected hundreds of thousands of people on X, formerly known as Twitter, to describe her as a “queen.” Ragbeer, 24, is a college student from New Jersey who has been trying to break into the music industry since she […]
The 66th Annual Grammy Awards aired from Los Angeles last night and, of course, it was plenty entertaining. Artists who walked away with Grammys included Taylor Swift (Album of the Year), Miley Cyrus, SZA, Chris Stapleton and boygenius. But other presenters and performers didn’t go home empty-handed either. Behind the scenes, they could visit an […]
The deadline for high school seniors to apply for San Isabel Electric scholarships is Thursday, Feb. 15 at 5 p.m. Students who reside in Colorado, have a parent or guardian who’s a San Isabel customer, have a GPA of at least 2.0 and are pursuing higher education in the 2024-25 academic year have the opportunity […]
Universal Music Group announced in an open letter Tuesday night that it would revoke its licensing agreement with TikTok if the companies could not reach a new deal to compensate artists and songwriters whose works are used across the social media platform. UMG is the world’s largest music company, managing talent the likes of Taylor […]
Robyn, July 2019 (Joseph Okpako/Redferns) Robyn and Fever Ray are among more than 1,000 Swedish signatories of an open letter calling for the Eurovision Song Contest to ban Israel from the 2024 competition, the final of which takes place in the Swedish city of Malmö on May 11. Axel Boman, Refused, DJ Seinfeld, Peder Mannerfelt, […]
A group of artists in Sweden, this year’s Eurovision host country, are requesting that Israel be barred from participating in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest over the nation’s “brutal” war in Gaza. In an open letter signed by more than 1,000 Swedish musicians published in the Swedish paper Aftonbladet, the artists decried the “humanitarian disaster” […]
Jan. 25—A memorial for the victims of the 2019 mass shooting in the Oregon District is already making significant progress, well ahead of the five-year anniversary of the tragedy coming Aug. 4. More than 250 community members have already pitched in to help put together a large mosaic that will be a key part of […]
Jan. 21—Fans went back to the 1980s at Albuquerque Comic Con on Sunday, with a long line awaiting a chance to get an autograph or photo from Christopher Lloyd — who brought life to Doc Brown in the time-traveling “Back to the Future” trilogy. A miniature Dr. Emmett Brown, 9-year-old Max Williams, was one of […]
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Sacramento grocery stores, casinos and Golden 1 Center will soon be adorned by an image calling attention to a single word: Kapwa. In Filipino, the word means fellowship or togetherness. The colorful, comic-esque digital illustration of six people linked arm-in-arm in struggle marks the first advertisement in a new campaign by local Asian American community […]