HOUGHTON — At 7:30 p.m. April 18 the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, Choirs of Michigan Tech, musicians from the Upper Peninsula and Upper Midwest, and soloists Lara Neves and Kathryn Summersett, will combine for the Upper Peninsula’s first-ever performance of Gustav Mahler’s transcendent ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who admitted to selling Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him is set to be sentenced Wednesday. Jasveen Sangha will be the third defendant sentenced of the five people who have pleaded guilty in connection with the 2023 overdose of the 54-year-old actor. His role as Chandler Bing on NBC's “Friends” in the 1990s and 2000s made him one of the biggest television stars of his era. Sangha is the only one whose plea deal included an acknowledgment of causing Perry’s death, and is likely to get the stiffest sentence of the group by far. Prosecutors are ...
This article is reprinted from The Conversation an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. LOS ANGELES — When Michael Jackson died in 2009, he left everything he owned to a family trust – an estate planning technique for giving away ...
HOUGHTON — The Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts welcomed jazz multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Braxton Cook backstage last weekend for the Don Keranen Jazz Festival. He played with Michigan Technological University student jazz groups including R&D Jazz Band and Jazz Lab Band. Cook, ...
HOUGHTON – The 2026 Don Keranen Jazz Festival is back with three tomorrow and Saturday. Paying tribute to the founder of the Michigan Tech Jazz Studies Program, Don Keranen, this festival features performances by the Video Game Jazz Ensemble, R&D Jazz Band, Jazztech, and Jazz Lab Band. ...
ORLANDO —The Calumet High School Copper Kings Band, known as the “Pride of the Keweenaw” performed at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom on Monday. The band under the direction of Ryan Watt proudly marched down Main Street USA. The visit came about after the Copper Kings submitted an ...
