My dream barber would make me want to get a haircut, and not just when the hair above my ears threatens to mingle with the hair on my ears to create hair headphones that make it impossible to overhear ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” is replete with comical conundrums. An ardent count professes his love of a spirited young beauty who is ...

Aug. 22—"I, Bernie Koenigs, am a common man who has had uncommon aspirations all my life." Thus began a five-page document penned by Koenigs in advance of a Mankato Toastmasters event in about 1977.

Before Bob Saget gained superstardom at ABC not only landing one hit sitcom in Full House as family patriarch Danny Tanner, but also as host one of the first prime time reality TV programs of the ...

It’s never good to try to be funny. The strain shows. Better to just let it fly, get in a rhythm, don’t think about it too much. Rossini couldn’t have had much time to think about his comic ...

Among the many reasons “The Barber of Seville” opera is hugely popular worldwide, here are three: Its music is instantly familiar, thanks to its usage in the 1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon “Rabbit of Seville ...