Arts

"When I heard about the sad demise of Leonard Nimoy, I felt a sense of loss and sadness entirely disproportionate to the death of someone I'd never met," writes Elizabeth Graham on NPR.org.

A gala concert and an open house launch a month of celebrations for the new Ordway Concert Hall in St. Paul.

Participants in winter sports are predominantly white, but the National Brotherhood of Skiers has been trying to change that for 42 years.

Nimoy's son, Adam, says the actor died Friday morning in Los Angeles of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Our special guest host is Nike Kadri, who plays First Fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Guthrie Theater.

On this week's Friday Roundtable, our guests shared their stories as immigrants in the United States and how it compared to the experience portrayed on the show.

The band formed around 1970 in Scotland where American soul and R&B were quite popular in the local clubs. The band's name was inspired by a friend.

John Coltrane's acclaimed album "A Love Supreme" is considered by many to be among the greatest jazz albums of all time.

This week, the Art Hounds take in portraits of blues musicians, a performance of Scheherazade by the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and a play about art in the days of cavemen.

"I'm thinking little projects like this can make a difference," he said. "Maybe someone that never gets into nature will see something and feel something."

For Screen Time this week, Kerri and Stephanie chat about the Oscars.

Vanity Fair magazine reported last year that Garnett plays music by West to get him in the right frame of mind on game nights.

Racers soup up junkyard cars with studded tires and steel pipe bumpers -- and a stuffed animal or two.

The Garfield Lake Ice Racers gather every Sunday and challenge each other on an ice track.

Guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant have said that "Physical Graffiti" was the high point of Led Zeppelin's creativity as a band.

The Ordway's first full season in its expanded St. Paul building includes Broadway musicals, world music concerts and dance performances.

In "Ghettoside," reporter Jill Leovy highlighs the disparities in who gets killed, and whose deaths get coverage in the media.

Terry, considered considered one of jazz music's greatest trumpeters, died over the weekend. He was 94.

Sunday night's Oscars brought expected wins for actors like Julianne Moore and J.K. Simmons, and big awards for the quirky showbiz satire "Birdman."