• Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, the stage production of “Doubt: A Parable” will be presented Friday, October 17th and Saturday, October 18th at the Empire Arts Center of downtown Grand Forks. Show times each evening are 7:30.

• An “Art and Wine” walk will be held Saturday, October 18th in downtown East Grand Forks and Grand Forks from 1 until 4:30 pm. There is also an artist’s reception this weekend at the Northwest Minnesota Arts Council’s “Art Gallery at the River Walk Center in downtown East Grand Forks, from 1pm to 5pm during the Grand Cities Art and Wine Walk.

• A free movie is being shown at the Grand Forks Public Library on Saturday, October 18th at 2:00 pm. The movie is: “Mr. Peabody and Sherman.”

• The “Mother Goose Storybook Theater” continues at the Fire Hall Theater in downtown Grand Forks this Saturday afternoon at 2:00 pm. The fun-filled event requires registration and is part of a six-week session for children, ages 3 until 6.

• The “Applefest” is Saturday the 18th in Alexandria, Minnesota – with catapult demonstrations, a quilt show and auction, horse drawn wagon rides, pumpkin carving by a master carver, kids pie eating contests, bungee and trampoline rides.

• There’s also an “Apple Festival” in Hastings, Minnesota on Saturday and Sunday.

• Singer Richard Colson Baker better known by his stage name Machine Gun Kelly (or MGK for short), will appear onstage at the Sanford Center in Bemidji, on Tuesday, October 21st at 8:00 pm.

• Singer Amy Grant will perform onstage at the Sanford Center in Bemidji on Wednesday, October 22nd. Show time is 7:00 pm.

Host, Carl Unbehaun, presents a cavalcade of songs by Minnesota songwriters along with his musical musings! No, you’re not hearing double–we’re playing double tracks of our favorite MN-based artists. Double the fun on MHB!

Hour 1

Easy Time – Dave Cofell
No Substitute for You – Dave Cofell
Little Bird – Anna Marie Mitchell
A Little Like This – Anna Marie Mitchell
Going to the County Fair – WoodPicks
Barn Again – WoodPicks
Super Bass – Elle Pollock
Honey, I’m Back From the War – Elle Pollock
Just a Kid – Bob Muscovitz
Where Are We Going – Bob Muscovitz
Smoking Horse – Tarveys
Learn by Heart – Tarveys
Changing Colors – Arlo Cristofaro
The Space Inside My Mind – Arlo Cristofaro
Reality TV – David Stoddard
Good Fences – David Stoddard
The Current – Fizz Kizer
It Only Rains When She’s Gone – Fizz Kizer

Hour 2

Simplify – Doug Millaway
Superheroes – Doug Millaway
Minnesota Goodbye – Wrong Omar
3’s Enough – Wrong Omar
Starshine – Adam Hammer
Cottonwood Waltz – Adam Hammer
Don’t Be Dumb – Kaptain Karl
Nothing Strange – Kaptain Karl
The Magician’s Daughter – Patsy O’Brien
Like Rain – Patsy O’Brien
Keep It Rockin’ – Barbara Jean
Lost Heart – Barbara Jean
Whatever Makes You Happy – Paul Westerberg
Only Lie Worth Telling – Paul Westerberg

The guest was EGF/NCTC Student Lizzy Saatoff from Brainerd, MN.

Regional photographer Bruce Flaig discusses his collection of photographs, now on display at the Northwest Minnesota Arts Council (NWMAC) gallery in East Grand Forks, MN, along with his training and professional preferences in capturing scenes of nature throughout the prairie-land of northwest Minnesota.