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That Title Is Currently Unavailable: Chasing the Hard-to-Find Movie
by Greg Carlson | Aug 7, 2019
In recent years, scores of essays have addressed the rapid transformation of the home video industry. Focused on topics including the impact of Netflix’s…
Read NowJust Rambling Along at Bohemian Barn
by John Showalter | Jul 31, 2019
Photographs by Noel Strauss Summer is the season of many things: barbecues, camping, high air conditioning bills, and of course outdoor music festivals. One…
Read NowAll together now!
by Sabrina Hornung | Jul 31, 2019
Workshops at WFF offer once in a lifetime listening experience
Read Now‘The necessary business of writing’
by Sarah Nour | Jul 31, 2019
During the next few months, local poet Emily Vieweg will be hard at work on her first full-length book of poetry. With two published…
Read NowTarantino and His Wrecking Crew Catch the End of a Golden Age in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
by Greg Carlson | Jul 31, 2019
For superstar auteur Quentin Tarantino, there’s no business like show business — never has been for the whole arc of his career — and…
Read NowTalking ‘The Easy Way’
by Sabrina Hornung | Jul 24, 2019
HPR chats with Page Burkum of The Cactus Blossoms at WFF
Read Now‘Driving a blues train’
by John Showalter | Jul 24, 2019
HPR sits down with the Blue Wailers
Read NowPunching with Your Feet: Stearns Gets Dark in “The Art of Self-Defense”
by Greg Carlson | Jul 24, 2019
Writer-director Riley Stearns confronts the foul odor of hypermasculinity and misogyny in “The Art of Self-Defense,” a pitch-black comedy featuring Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola,…
Read Now‘Local American epics’
by Sabrina Hornung | Jul 17, 2019
The forgotten history of North Dakota’s TSFA murals
Read Now“Maiden” Doc Sails Around the World with Tracy Edwards and Her Crew
by Greg Carlson | Jul 17, 2019
Legendary British skipper Tracy Edwards, who in 1989 led the first all-female crew of sailors to compete in the tough-as-nails, 33,000-mile Whitbread Round the…
Read NowShakin’ it up with Sarah Shook
by Sabrina Hornung | Jul 10, 2019
High Plains Reader had the opportunity to catch up with Sarah Shook, front woman of the North Carolina based punk country band Sarah Shook…
Read Now‘Midsommar’ Crowns a May Queen in Aster’s Frightening Folktale
by Greg Carlson | Jul 10, 2019
“Hereditary” director Ari Aster’s sophomore feature “Midsommar” firmly cements the filmmaker’s auteur bona fides. A visually stunning slice of art-house “folk horror” that draws…
Read NowFilmmaker Rachel Lears Showcases New Progressive Voices in “Knock Down the House”
by Greg Carlson | Jul 10, 2019
Writer-producer-director-photographer Rachel Lears teams with writer-producer-editor (and spouse) Robin Blotnick and producer Sarah Olson on advocacy doc “Knock Down the House,” now streaming on…
Read NowTrollwood production examines life in someone else’s shoes
by Ryan Janke | Jul 10, 2019
"Freaky Friday" is a funny, fast-paced, crowd-pleasing musical.
Read NowThe Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves: James Han Mattson’s first novel
by Brittney Goodman | Jul 7, 2019
After spending his high school years in Grand Forks, James Han Mattson is now a published author of the novel “The Lost Prayers of…
Read NowGetting spooky with Shelby Tagestad
by Sabrina Hornung | Jun 26, 2019
High Plains Reader: Your watercolor work is currently on view at the Red Raven Espresso Parlor, common themes within your pieces are elements of…
Read NowHere’s Mindy!
by Greg Carlson | Jun 26, 2019
Kaling and Thompson Team for ‘Late Night’
Read Now‘A warrior in his lifetime:’ photographic book of Natives receives more than acclaim
by C.S. Hagen | Jun 24, 2019
‘Native Americans are no longer frozen in time. We are still here. This is a testament of the unyielding endurance of Native peoples.’
Read NowDoing it the ‘write’ way
by Sarah Nour | Jun 19, 2019
Next month, aspiring writers in grades 7 to 12, regardless of skill level, will get to take part in the 1st Annual Teens Creative…
Read Now‘Weather the Storm’ blows into Bonanzaville
by Ryan Janke | Jun 19, 2019
The Cass Act Players will take the stage this weekend to bring “Weather the Storm” to Bonanzaville’s Dawson Hall in West Fargo. “Weather the…
Read NowNicki Marie, ‘Northern Stardust,’ and reasons to keep looking up
by Sabrina Hornung | Jun 19, 2019
You may have seen Nicki Marie slingin’ her elaborately folded paper star creations at various craft and cultural festivals around the region. She was…
Read NowMartin Scorsese and Bob Dylan Make Believe in ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’
by Greg Carlson | Jun 19, 2019
Martin Scorsese embraces the prankster spirit of a longtime inspiration/subject in “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.” The confounding testimony is as much…
Read NowMSUM’s regionally acclaimed Straw Hat Players opens 56th season
by Amber Westereng | Jun 12, 2019
Minnesota State University Moorhead’s (MSUM) Straw Hat Players has performed more than 300 shows during their 56 years and has groomed more than 2,000…
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