Alexander (music group)

When she was a child growing up in Lothian, Lyndra Pratt loved spending time with her grandmother, Margaret Ann Easton, at Easton's nearby farm. Naturally, Pratt was curious about this woman she loved so dearly. What, she wondered, had her grandma's life...

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, the 26-year-old guitarist and singer of the black metal band Liturgy, who performs at Daniel Street in Milford on Sept. 22, became a polarizing figure in the metal world when an essay he wrote for an academic conference hit the...

Those who take part in the sixth annual Gallery Crawl Oct. 11 will pay visits to the Dacotah Prairie Museum, Sixth Avenue Gallery and the ARCC Gallery at the Aberdeen Recreation and Cultural Center.  The crawl “will be an evening to try new places,...

Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach was the setting for an underwriting dinner to benefit the upcoming 40th anniversary of Maestro John Alexander's association with the Pacific Chorale. Chaired by hosts Mart and Margie Hubbard, and Jan Landstrom,...

BOWDLE - After dropping the first game, Eureka-Bowdle rallied to win the final three and earn a non-conference high school volleyball victory over Aberdeen Christian Thursday. Christian took a back-and-forth opening game 25-23, and the hosts won the...

COSTA MESA — The conductor sits comfortably in a backstage room within a concert hall, which, he says, glorifies the qualities of the human voice. John Alexander is retrospective. His decades leading the Pacific Chorale have added up, and yet the...

Punk rock dads open up In the documentary "The Other F Word" the word implied in the title is fatherhood; the film takes a look at the seemingly contradictory transition into middle age for men who are in a working rock band and also trying to settle...

'Silenced' is harrowing A recent hit in Korea, "Silenced" ("Dogani") is based on a true story in which administrators at a school for deaf children received extremely light penalties for sexually abusing their young charges. In the film, a teacher (Gong...

Bad notes, old song in 'Janie Jones' In "Janie Jones," the guitar-slinging pre-teen girl with the long black hair is 15-year-old Abigail Breslin, a little tougher-looking since her "Little Miss Sunshine" debut but sporting the same appealing mixture of...

FORT PIERRE - Mobridge-Pollock swept two matches and won a district championship all in one day. Plus an individual player reached a career plateau. Mobridge-Pollock beat Stanley County 25-10, 25-5, 25-9 in a semifinal match in District 11A and followed...

About three years after the city sued a contractor who got about $21 million to build a library, gym and other buildings at Pacific Park, the case has started to thaw in the court system after several subcontractors agreed to settle. Five out of dozens...

HOLTVILLE — As children batted baseballs around the Mack Park field Wednesday, Pastor Doc Seuss asked where the progress on the park was. How has the project become so big when there isn’t money and there are many with the resources to help...