Arts
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.
A Cup for the People
New socially engaged art group brings insightful project to the Plains
Fargo recently opened a new orphanage; it’s not for children and trust me, it’s not for dogs. Since its opening two weeks ago Friday, the Misfit Cup Liberation Project presented by area artist Michael Strand and the fledgling socially engaged art group, EngageU, has been providing a home to the misfit cups of Fargo-Moorhead in the Plains Art Museum, downtown Fargo.
11For All the Right Reasons
Spurred by the loss of his mother, Paul Evans seeks to bring Awareness, Help and Healing to families battling cancer.
Live Your Life
Sometimes all a person needs to succeed is a little support and that is exactly what Claudia Pratt got from her community when she started her “EXPLORING NOW: 365 Days to 50” project and the “sheARTS Project: Art Hats for Breast Cancer Awareness”!
New Styles of Comedy, New Wild Laughter
Although laughter is a universal, emotional reaction, there are simply some different approaches to bring laughter out of people. So … need a break from American humor? Need a breather from our world Hangover absurdity, YouTube hits like “Sh*t Girls Say” or Facebook captioned images and memes that read messages like “What my friends think I’m doing/What I’m actually doing” kind of stuff?
Transgender Bathrooms
Most people don’t think about it but there are very specific rules about who pees where. When it comes to public restroom politics, there exists a huge burden on those that don’t look like the stick people that live on bathroom doors
The Revolution is Being Revolutionized
A few weeks back, Anonymous, the international loose affiliation of programmers, hackers and activists, used their collective powers to hack into and sit in on a phone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard who were actually discussing Anonymous activities. The call was recorded and subsequently posted online (all 17 minutes worth can be heard here http://tiny.cc/AnonCall).
Ice Follies
The “B” squad game had just ended. Parents were meandering through the parking lot – probably functioning under low-blood sugar parameters since they most likely went straight from work-to-rink to watch Junior strap on his $800 skates and thrash around at a rubber disk with his $250 carbon fibre hockey stick. My fiance and I slalom through them, park in the dirt of the Scheel’s Arena, then buy tickets for the North/South hockey match. I used to play for the Spartans in the early ‘70’s (skates: $60; stick: $6) and my fiance swears she attended many, many contests. I believe her… to a point.
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