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Spring Gala attendees wearing love for art on their sleeves

FARGO – With a silent art auction featuring more than 90 pieces of work, delicious wine and beer tastings, plenty of tasty food and lots of great music, the Plains Art Museum’s Spring Gala is always one of the biggest, most colorful parties of the year.

• Ruby Kolpack
• Brian Hayer
• Susan Neuenschwander
• Jim Sweeney
• Jessica Magness, Neil Ebeling

Rising above: Bakery prides itself by using only handful of ingredients

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – When Jennifer Davis decided to open a café here, she didn’t have to think too long or look too hard to figure out where she would turn for fresh-baked bread. As a former employee of Falls Baking Company, Davis knew their product was a cut above the rest.

• Display case at Falls Baking Company
• Dakota bread

Toy collection not child’s play

Man’s trove of toy tractors reflects his love of farming
John “Bud” Wisnewski’s workshop is something more like Santa’s workshop, the walls lined with shelves of toy tractors, implements, cars, planes and other machinery.

Ventriloquist Dunham playing rare Sunday afternoon Fargodome show

FARGO – Jeff Dunham has legions of fans, but don’t count those closest to the comic, the ones that are extensions of him. They are both the bane of his existence and the reason thousands pay to see him at every show.

• Jeff Dunham and friends

Chicago still touring – and getting along – 45 years in

FARGO - For 45 years, record labels, DJs, music critics and music store owners have struggled to define the group Chicago.

• Chicago band members

What the flood? The family friendly alternative to the F-word

No matter how incendiary A.J. Clemente’s F-bomb introduction to Bismarck TV viewers was, I give the rookie broadcaster credit for one thing: He got us thinking of something other than the other F-word – flood.

• John Lamb

Review: Guest conductor Corcoran leads rousing review of Russian classics

FARGO – After today’s final Masterworks concert of the season, the real hard work begins for the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony.

Hearing voices: Comedians take over stages in downtown Fargo on Friday

FARGO – The laughs are on Downtown Fargo on Friday night, when not one but two big comedy shows, just two blocks apart, descend on the city.

• Gabriel Iglesias
• Maria Bamford

Erdrich to accept Rough Rider Award on behalf of her community, Roosevelt’s progressive spirit

WAHPETON, N.D. - In many of her novels, Louise Erdrich writes about fictitious families on or near an unnamed and imagined reservation somewhere in eastern North Dakota.

• Louise Erdrich talks to a master class
• Louise Erdrich talks with moderator Neal Conan

Nashville conductor looks to lend her voice to FMSO

FARGO – Nashville, Tenn., is known for its affiliation with country music, as it is home to the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ol’ Opry.

• Kelly Corcoran
• Kelly Corcoran is the fifth and final candidate

Columns

Lamb: Paradox heroes to the rescue

The way people were talking in the days leading up to “Iron Man 2” opening at the Fargo Theatre, you would’ve thought the venue was hosting a battle royale between the superhero and some equally destructive villain, not just a film.

Lamb: Derby little secrets are sure to pay off

Recently, the question I’ve heard the most, well, besides, “Didn’t I tell you never to come back?” would be, “How do I go about picking a horse for today’s Kentucky Derby?”

Lamb: Nothing to see in 'Town'

"Happy Town” premieres Wednesday night, but I doubt ABC’s newest paranormal small town series will melt many hearts in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Lamb: Let’s go ahead and make this taxing holiday official

At approximately 10:42 p.m. Thursday I was struck with a great idea: Tax day should be a holiday!

Lamb: Man caves: Home of the testosterone zone

If a man’s home is his castle, a man’s _____ is his cave? Ask different people, get different answers.

• 152-inch 3-D TV

Lamb: Lenten lessons

Songs will remind you that Christmas is, in no uncertain terms, “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” but I’m warming up to Easter.

Lamb: Kilt-clad clan to pipe up in Fargo

The 2010 Winter Olympics conclude this weekend, bringing to a close two weeks of international competition and camaraderie.

Lamb: Great White Rock, eh?

When Bryan Adams takes the stage tonight at North Dakota State University’s Festival Concert Hall, even if the venue is sold out, it will be a step down from the worldwide audience he played to a week ago when Adams opened the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

• Bryan Adams

Lamb: Views on love – out of the mouths of babes

Let’s face it, you’re not reading me to get romantic advice. For that, I’ll turn this column over to someone who really knows – first-graders at my elementary alma mater, Hawthorne.

Lamb: Smoky’s gets in your eyes with classic commercials now on YouTube

For the past 20 years or so, there’s been as much hype around what ads will air during the Super Bowl as which teams actually play the game.

• The late Obed Williamson is shown in a scene
• Watch the commercials