Before half his mustache turned white, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Acker was touring roughly 175 days a year with Minnesota-based band The Last Revel. In some ways, he couldn’t imagine a better life.

For a group that started out just for laughs, Dr. Lee and the Terminally Chill isn’t doing too shabby. “We just kind of started almost as a joke,” said Ryan Acker, one of the band’s singers and ...

Ryan Acker won’t be returning to the classroom this school year as an educator. A former Pine Bluff High School math teacher, Acker was inspired to create an artistic outlet after spending three years ...