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​Kelly Coxsyn brings forth Hell on Heels

August 10th, 2016

Kelly Coxsyn has been a glittery staple in the FM performance community for a number of years. She produces, hosts and performs with the Hell on Heels drag shows at Jerry’s Tavern, their home venue in Moorhead, and just celebrated her 10th year as a drag performer.

“Seriously, if you’ve never been to a show, it’s definitely something you should experience. I know that drag isn’t for everyone,” Coxsyn says,” but we really try hard to make sure our shows have a little…

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​The Business Computer Story

August 3rd, 2016

By Chuck Solly

What the heck is a business computer? Is there really any differences between your home machine and the one you use at work? Maybe the differences listed here will help you.

An important consideration when buying a computer for work purposes is whether you should purchase a consumer model or a computer specifically designed for business. Many computer manufacturers offer what appear to be the same computer make and model in both their home and business divisions, but they…

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​After five year Run, music venue The New Direction to close

August 3rd, 2016

By Matthew Musacchia

On Wednesday, July 27, the concert venue The New Direction announced through a Facebook post that with “heavy hearts” it would be closing after final shows on the 23rd and 24th of September.

TND has been hosting all-ages concerts and acts for five years at 14 Roberts Street, since March 2011 when the Red Raven Espresso Parlor moved to a different location. It was known for booking acts that did not limit the audience by age restrictions. The venue’s Facebook…

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​HPR exclusive interview with Marcus Dunn

August 3rd, 2016

This year there will be an additional feature in Chalkfest. There will be a featured artist in addition to the 10 local artists participating in the festivities. Marcus Dunn, a student at Savannah College of Art and Design, was this year’s individual artist winner at SCAD’s annual chalk festival and is this year’s featured artist at Chalkfest in Fargo.

High Plains Reader: Can you tell us a bit about your winning piece?

Marcus Dunn: There were hundreds of great works made at the…

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​Living through World War II

July 29th, 2016

Lore Hornung (left) at the beginning of World War II in Nazi Germany - photograph provided by Lore Hornung

JAMESTOWN – A local news broadcast finished with a clip of US presidential nominee Donald Trump standing before a giant NRA poster. The 2016 Republican candidate gripped a podium’s sides tightly, raised a bushy eyebrow before promising to bring back the American dream.

Lore Hornung set her liverwurst on rye down, and pointed excitedly at the television set.

“The names we had for Hitler are like what we have for Trump,” Hornung said. “Names that I won’t repeat.”

Born in…

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Poképotential

July 29th, 2016

by Ben Haugmo

By now, we’ve all most likely heard about Pokémon Go, the mobile spin-off of Nintendo’s hit franchise, that is seeing players venture out of their homes and into the wild frontier of an augmented reality thriving with the ever-elusive pocket monster.

The game has overcome the hiccups of its initial launch to become a huge success, but it is yet to be seen if Pokémon Go will have permanent staying power. The outlook seems optimistic, with promises of server fixes, new…

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​Printing by the numbers

July 27th, 2016

By Chuck Solly

Space prohibits me from doing a full-blown comparison of computer printers. There are many kinds and features, but what I can do is point you to a type of printer based on your printer needs.

Inkjet and laser printers have been joined recently by a new type: 3D printers.

We'll start with the inkjet printers. They are by far, the cheapest printer type. I have seen them on sale over the holidays for $50.00. These printers are meant for intermittent use or probably less than 1…

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HPR exclusive: Jude Montague interview

July 27th, 2016

By Jacinta Macheel Zens

Jude Cowan Montague is a London-based artist with a mind-boggling amount of creative endeavors and a list of accomplishments and degrees to make the staunchest of academics take note. She is a multimedia visual and musical artist, worked as an archivist for the Reuters Television Archive, has a PhD in Film Studies, an MA in printmaking, is a published poet, and has a radio show on London’s Art and Music independent arts radio station, Resonance FM.

HPR was able…

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​Xccelerate at TEDx Fargo

July 20th, 2016

Many of us are familiar with TED conferences or ‘TED Talks’, the global conferences that bring together a wide variety of speakers from different disciplines to talk about subjects ranging from business to culture and society. Perhaps you have watched any number of their published talks online or your supervisor at work has invited your colleagues and you to one of the conferences as a team-building exercise.

Whether you are a regular attendee at these events or just happen to be…

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​Your Ebay business/hobby

July 20th, 2016

By Chuck Solly

There are many opinions about Ebay. If you talk to 100 people about buying or selling on Ebay you will get 100 different stories.

Trustpilot.com is a web site that allows everyone to express their opinions about any web site. They have most of those stories. Since Ebay is all over the world, many of these stories are from Europe with the USA stories mixed in.

Most of the questions I get from others are whether or not they should use Ebay. Some folks want to buy, others…

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