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From The Newsroom: Rock Lottery, NorthPark Trains

Lyndsay Knecht
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KERA News
Nevada Hill is an influential Dallas artist and musician who turned down an offer to be the beneficiary for Rock Lottery 13.

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

There’s a show Saturday night at Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton, featuring five bands no one’s ever heard. It’s Rock Lottery, an event founded in 1996 that mixes up local musicians to form new groups. And the Trains at NorthPark take you from Dallas to NYC in just a few minutes.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.