For six years, the Culver’s Jammers have packed Culver’s in Coon Rapids, filling the business with lively music for a few hours each Saturday.

Swati Avasthi, a professor of creative writing at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, has recently released her first novel, “Split,” in paperback.

Lake Wobegon® Brass Band returns to its home at Anoka-Ramsey Community College to perform in concert as part of the group’s 20th anniversary celebration. Michael Halstenson directs.

Celebrating 30 years in existence, the North Suburban Concert Band presents its annual Cathedral Concert March 4.

The walls of Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, Fridley, are bursting with color.

Next weekend’s opening of Anoka Middle School for the Arts newest theater production marks a number of firsts.

Saddle up and trot right down to Lyric Arts Main Street Stage for a fun-filled, foot-stomping musical steeped in a large dose of romance and a clash between two opposing factions.

Several teens in the area have come up winners in the annual 2011-12 Minnesota Scholastic Arts Award competition.

Scott Hansen has made a career making light of his Minnesota roots.

Popular singer Dennis Spears appears in the second of Anoka’s First Congregational Church concert series Feb. 18, 7 p.m., in celebration of Black History Month. Spears will sing “Free at Last” music with the church’s choir under the direction of Don Shier. Spears will tell stories of growing up in the south and sing the [...]

Producer Patti Hynes-McCarthy puts on two hats in The Seasons Dinner Theatre production “On Golden Pond.” The show opens this weekend with Hynes-McCarthy stepping into the spotlight in a lead role of Ethel Thayer.

A poem meshing the experience of an aging grandmother with last year’s Japanese tsunami has captured first place in a poetry-writing contest.

The Trio Voronezh will perform the third concert in the series Feb. 14 as part of Spring Lake Park District 16’s North Metro Performing Arts Series. But you don’t have to be a season’s ticket holder to attend. And single-concert tickets are still available for purchase.

Amanda Hughes has always been intrigued with the 18th century – the clothes, the people and the lifestyle.

A teen from Coon Rapids has been cast in a play about the Holocaust.

If you’re looking for more than a few laughs, look no further than Anoka-Ramsey Community College Theater Department’s production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

After navigating the baffling maize of getting her works into print, a local woman has taken the task on herself.

Fun is at the center of The Crazy Heart Band. The five-member group has fun on stage, performing together and the audience has fun dancing and interacting with the band.

Time to dust off your dancing shoes. Or if you don’t care to waltz or polka, perhaps listening to concertina music is more to your liking.

An art faculty member at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and her students will have their collaborative work displayed as part of Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s newest exhibit “Intersections.”

Lyric Arts newest production focuses on a women’s swim team. But men will be equally entertained, according to director Kari Steinbach.

Matt McNabb, theater director for Anoka High School, has upped the ante of tackling challenging productions to provide what he aims, he said, to be the best show ever under his directorship at the high school.