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It hit 78 degrees on my on-board temperature display. Wow! Spring and summer all in one day. I am going to the cabin tomorrow to meet with a landscape professional, so this is going out early. In case you had not heard, Ira Glass is coming to the College of St. Benedict on Saturday April 23rd. “This American Life” is one of the most popular radio shows on the air. The event is called “Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass”. I will be in the lobby working a table, so please consider getting some tickets and coming to the campus in St. Joseph. Go to www.csbsju/edu/WOW The show starts at 7:30 so you will have time to eat at either The Local Blend or Bello Cucina. You can make reservations at Bello Cucina by calling 363-4534. I am sure that their patio is open tonight and it may be open that evening unless it snows.

The APHC show this week is back at The Town Hall in New York City. Chris Thile is co-hosting and demonstrating some superhuman mandolin licks. He plays an instrument built in 1924. John Fullbright will join the gang all the way from Oklahoma with a cache of well-honed melodies and heart wrenching songs. Aoife O’Donovan will stop by to sing a few songs that will make you sit up and listen hard. And Christine DiGiallonardo returns this week to bring a little Bensonhurst to Broadway. The band and the Royal Academy of Radio Actors fill out the bill. Enjoy the show and enjoy the evening.

“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” Thomas Carlyle