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​Free Developmental Screening

August 10th, 2016

Friday, August 12, 8am-4pm

Pediatric Therapy Partners, 3060 Frontier Way S, Fargo

Questions or concerns regarding your child’s development? Please call ahead to schedule a time for your free screening: (701) 364-3945. Early Intervention Partners can answer any questions you may have.

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​Aimee Klein’s night of skits and Tom Foolery

August 3rd, 2016

August 11-12, 7pm

Brews on Broadway, 409 Broadway, Fargo

Join Aimee and her comrades for a night filled with improv, sketch comedy, and even filmed sketches. Brews on Broadway is located in the former Schumacher Goodyear building on Broadway.

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Pens and Pints

August 3rd, 2016

Tuesday, August 9, 5:30pm

Zandbroz Variety, 420 North Broadway

Drinking and writing? This sounds like our kind of pub crawl! Register at Zandbroz and mosey on to Sazerac Alley, Dempsey’s, Wurst Bier Hall, and then on to No Bull. The final destination will be the Downtown Fargo VFW at 8:30 for an open mic session, where you can read your work and listen to the works of others. “Join us to create a draft while drinking a draft.”

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​Turnpike Troubadours

August 3rd, 2016

Monday, August 8, 5-9pm

Sanctuary Events Center, 670 4th Avenue North

Oklahoma based Red Dirt country band the Turnpike Troubadours are coming to Fargo to promote their new album and to rock your socks--er--boots off. They’re a little rough around the edges but have a whole lotta soul. Playboy even gave them a nod mentioning they were one of three bands to check out in 2015.

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Trans Mentor Program

August 3rd, 2016

August 6, 12-4pm

1105 1st Ave S, Fargo

A group affiliated with the Pride Collective and Community Center, led by Faye Seidler. Free clothing drive: try on clothes in a gender-neutral ambience. Always, every Saturday, advice and support for those within the trans community. Lots of folks say this group is a lifesaver.

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​Fiber Arts Festival

August 3rd, 2016

Friday, August 5, 12-5pm; Saturday, August 6, 12-5pm

Rheault Farm, 2902 25th St S, Fargo

A celebration of fiber, yarn, and fabric. Two days of demonstrations, vendors, and hands-on activities. Free admission, tasty treats at onsite concessions. How to use and where to find: looms, yarn, needle tools, spinning wheels.

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​WE Fest

August 3rd, 2016

August 4-6

Soo Pass Ranch, County Hwy 22, just south of DL (800) 493-3378

The country music festival with top national performers. We’re proud that local musicians are performing: Blind Joe from Fargo-Moorhead, Hardwood Groove from Detroit Lakes. We’re provisionally proud of Jeremiah James, from a tiny town in Northern Minnesota, but he won’t say which one.

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Cruisin’ Broadway

July 27th, 2016

Thursday, August 4, 5-9pm

On and near Broadway, between the tracks

Do not miss. Broadway pleasantly crowded. Last month we saw a 1959 Citroen 2CV -- looked like a child had built it with an erector set. Had a BMW motorcycle engine with five times the original motor’s power, and that mother could peel out and fishtail down Broadway. What a ride. I’m bad, I’m bad, you know it.

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​Bob Log III

July 27th, 2016

Wednesday, August 3

The Aquarium (Dempsey’s Upstairs) 226 Broadway, Downtown Fargo

Best show of the week. Slide guitar one-man band. No mic, sings into a telephone receiver inside a motorcycle helmet, does the drum and cymbals with his feet. Kevin Dowling Fitness Hour, Les Dirty Frenchmen, Freddy Glove.

Somewhat chaotic, very danceable. Doors 9pm, music 9:30. $10, 21+

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​Laurel and Hardy: The Silent Duo

July 27th, 2016

Monday, August 1, 7:15pm

Glasrud Auditorium, Weld Hall, MSUM Campus

We’ll be there. We haven’t seen Laurel and Hardy in early silent films, each about as long as a TV episode. At American Theatre Organ Society’s Summer Cinema Series, an F-M tradition. Prologue on the Wurlitzer organ starts at 7:15, films at 7:30. $4, https://tickets.mnstate.edu/default.aspx

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