Going the Distance: Surviving the Fargo Marathon

Design By Raul Gomez

Starting in 2005 with 2,400 participants, participation in the premier marathon has ballooned each year. Runner’s World magazine ranked this event, with more than 20,000 runners, as the 8th Best Overall Marathon in America. For a country that hosts marathons in practically every major city, a top ten ranking is an extraordinary accomplishment. To have people from all 50 states drawn to run in such a small city is just another example of why this event is so exceptional.

Pelvic Pyromania

I suppose many people think that the old evolutionist Charles Darwin caused enough trouble with his “Origin of the Species” without getting involved so much with pleasurable, powerful, and restricted sex. We do need sex to survive–-and Charles came up with another irrefutable idea: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” 

Black Bananas

Black Bananas, the newest project from Royal Trux and RTX’s Jennifer Herrema, slips into The Aquarium Wednesday, May 23 in support of their Drag City debut “Rad Times Xpress IV.”

Distressing Damsels: Stillman’s Latest Doesn’t Measure Up to ‘Metropolitan’

Whit Stillman’s feature debut “Metropolitan,” which received an Academy Award nomination for its screenplay, is an object of love and desire for a cultish collection of cinephiles who came of age in the early 1990s. Many of those fans, having waited fourteen years (the date of “The Last Days of Disco”) for new Stillman, may be slightly let down by “Damsels in Distress,” a comedy so willfully detached from dreary reality that its attitude, manner, and appearance resemble a nostalgia-burnished relic from the New Frontier.

My Narrow, Constricted Greek Arteries

If you’ve never had saganaki cheese, let me give you a brief description: PAN FRIED CHEESE. Need I say more?  Greek cooking site http://www.kopiaste.org tells us that saganaki is not a reference to the cheese itself but instead the name of the double-handled pan used to prepare the cheese called a sagani.  The article continues to explain that there are other saganaki preparations such as shrimp saganaki or gavros saganaki (anchovies).

Bike revolutions

We may shape shift between bus, bike, car, or foot, but we share the road everyday and we need solidarity for each other. Whose streets? Our streets, let’s use them as much as possible!

Best Bets 5-17-12 to 5-24-12

Fargo Marathon, Choroideremia Awareness Fundraiser, Downtown Cleanup, Jenn Rawling and Basho Parks, Bugsy Malone, Crusin’ Broadway, Children’s Miracle Network Benefit Show,

Pizza Squirrel

Upon waking, she asked her significant other to grab her winter boots that had been sitting outside throughout the night from off the front step. To which he obliged as he was on the way to the door to bring in the morning paper anyway. When he brought them back into the house, it was discovered with much chagrin that the boots were filled with tightly packed pizza crust bits.

An Un-Pleasant Experience

This week, the Cass County Board of Commissioners stifled the democratic rights of a group of people in rural North Dakota’s Pleasant Township. The group of 15 residents petitioned Cass County to de-annex their land from Cass County to Richland County. The group is unanimously dissatisfied with the Cass County leadership and asserts that their interests are not being heard concerning the flood diversion plan. The Cass County Commissioners swiftly squelched these residents’ opportunity to bring their issue to a public vote because they felt the residents represented a small group, when in reality, they represent a large amount of land mass in Cass County. The County stopped the petition request for de-annexation by relying on an obscure rule of government that allows the County Commission to be the gatekeepers on allowing this issue be on the ballot, so they denied the petition and prevented a public vote.

View the Meeting of the Cass County Board of Commissioners here: