The Boston-based public radio show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy will be recording in La Crosse on Sunday, May 7, and yours truly will be a guest panelist. I was on the show several years ago–you may have … Continue reading
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On Friday, March 31, from 11 am to 1 pm, a group of Viterbo University music faculty will perform music from 1917, the year that 9XM, now Wisconsin Public Radio, signed on. It’ll be a special two-hour Midday broadcast complete … Continue reading
On March 3 and 5, 2017, at the Gainesville Woman’s Club: Gainesville, Florida….radio-style dinner theater that invites the audience to come in costume….The Heroes of Bent Fork Bluff: In 1876, when a charismatic con man comes to a drought-stricken Texas town … Continue reading
Plenty of it! And on Thursday, March 30 at 7 pm in the Florentine Room of the Wisconsin Union Theater, I’ll share some notable examples before the Mnozil Brass concert at the UW-Madison’s Shannon Hall. We’ll hear musical shenanigans from … Continue reading
from the website of the Gainesville Woman’s Club: Get out your western boots for the Gainesville Woman’s Club The Heroes of Bent Fork Bluff, an original play written by Norman Gilliland. Doors will open at 6:15 PM on Saturday, March … Continue reading
The Electoral College It’s no school, it confers no degrees, And collects no tuition or fees, And though every four years It draws crowds and prompts cheers, Its “commencement” will also displease. … Continue reading
He arises and stretches to munch At the salad bar, leaves by the bunch! Why this banquet of green For his breakfast cuisine? By the time it hits home, it’s his lunch. Answer: A giraffe … Continue reading
For the fourth year, Florida schools will benefit from a radio-style dinner theater production. On March 3 and 5, 2017, the Gainesville Woman’s Club will present a new play, The Heroes of Bent Fork Bluff. When a charismatic con man arrives … Continue reading
Set in a Gainesville speakeasy, Norman Gilliland’s “Chasers” was the 2015 play to benefit Gainesville area schools. As they had for 2014’s “Knockback,” even the audience came in period costumes, this time around in the spirit of the Roaring Twenties. … Continue reading