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Get a close-up view of the APHC gang at their best. Each week we'll add new slideshows to the list with images from rehearsals, live productions, and special events.
The Joke Machine
This Week's Joke
Why did Mozart get rid of his chickens? They kept saying Bach, Bach!
This joke was submitted by David Banoczi-Ruof from New York. Thanks!
Post to the Host
The Prairie Queen
Hello, Mr. Keillor,
In the monologue last week from Duluth, you made reference to the famed “Prairie Queen” passenger train to Duluth.
As an amateur railroad historian, I would like to know: did such a train exist, or is it a product of your imagination?
Kim William Jones
Anoka, MN Read more
The View From Mrs. Sundberg's Window
There’s Good Work to Be Done
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. It was coming from Duluth, one of my favorite places in the world. It’s a city of the wilderness, if you ask me, and all about lake and trees and occasional bears and deer roaming the streets. It’s a fine place to be in any season, and a place Mr. S and I like to visit often when we have some down time. The lake walk is lovely, especially in the evening with all the lights, and there’s good food all ‘round, and there’s Bentleyville, the Christmas village, down there by the water over the holiday season. Hot chocolate and campfires and people singing and mingling and lights strung up and Santa with laughing children, and snow falling over it all. Read more
Russ Ringsak
The Hiding Place
I flew back home for a week after delivering the rig curbside at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. An internet and cell phone search yielded up a local driver named Tillis to set it at the dock for the Friday morning load in and the Saturday night out. I wondered if he was related to Mel. Stage Boss said he turned out to be a good guy; brought his family to the show and enjoyed it. Said he thinks the guy maybe wants my job. I felt I was doing my job by finding him. In any case a good guy to know. Read more