June 19th, 2025
The drug that keeps re-purposing itself
By Ellie Liverani
There is a drug that is getting a lot of attention nowadays all over the world. It has various commercial names (Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus), but the common scientific name is semaglutide.
It is not a new discovery. In fact, it has been studied since the 70s. But in time, it has been more and more re-purposed, similarly to Viagra, but even more so.
The amount of content (and drama) you can find on…
June 19th, 2025
The drug that keeps re-purposing itself
By Ellie Liverani
There is a drug that is getting a lot of attention nowadays all over the world. It has various commercial names (Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus), but the common scientific name is semaglutide.
It is not a new discovery. In fact, it has been studied since the 70s. But in time, it has been more and more re-purposed, similarly to Viagra, but even more so.
The amount of content (and drama) you can find on…
June 19th, 2025
The drug that keeps re-purposing itself
By Ellie Liverani
There is a drug that is getting a lot of attention nowadays all over the world. It has various commercial names (Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus), but the common scientific name is semaglutide.
It is not a new discovery. In fact, it has been studied since the 70s. But in time, it has been more and more re-purposed, similarly to Viagra, but even more so.
The amount of content (and drama) you can find on…
April 22nd, 2025
By Alicia Underlee Nelson
Evansville Arts Coalition (EAC) will celebrate its birthday with an evening of poetry at Evansville Art Center (111 Main St. in Evansville, Minnesota) on Thursday, April 24 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to all.
The EAC hosted its first Poetry Night in April 1996, shortly after its incorporation as a nonprofit. Except for a pandemic pause in 2020, the event has been held every year since, making it one of longest-running annual…
February 21st, 2025
In the twenty-first century, the rapid transformation of technology has opened artistry and craftwork to new generations of writers, artists, sculptors, and creators. In the last few decades, the maker movement has modeled this through fairs and makerspaces, which platform working creators, amateurs and hobbyists. YouTube channels and TikTok feeds allow anyone with a smartphone to watch projects unfold. Basements and boardrooms, kitchen tables and community centers — with access to tech…
February 20th, 2025
By Madeline Luke
Ferguson Books in downtown Fargo hosted Sonya Trom Eayrs in November for the release of her book about the takeover of rural southern Minnesota by large animal factory farms or CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations). She is a Minneapolis lawyer, but also the farm manager daughter of a third generation farmer, Lowell Trom, who — until he died at the age of 90 — worked his 760-acre legacy farm and fought those who would ruin it saying, “enough is…
November 23rd, 2024
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and…
April 18th, 2024
Alicia Underlee Nelson
“I think you can tell a lot about a community by the health of its bookstore, because people make a choice,” said Danny Caine, author of “50 Ways to Protect Bookstores” and the co-owner of a bookshop in Kansas. “The people value art, community, they probably value local food and local restaurants. The human booksellers will never be replaced by algorithms or machines.”
If that’s the case, the Fargo-Moorhead community is going strong.…
October 2nd, 2023
By Sabrina Hornung
sabrina@hpr1.com
Photo provided by Martin Keller
North Dakota native Martin Keller is no stranger to the pen, in fact, he went from working as a freelance journalist and staff writer and editor, contributing to publications such as City Pages, The Star Tribune, the Mpls-St. Paul Business Journal, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Final Frontier, and countless others, to working as a publicist for Dr. Steven Greer, MD, who founded the controversial…
April 23rd, 2023
By Sabrina Hornung
sabrina@hpr1.com
Kevin Zepper is no stranger to the literary scene in North Dakota. An author, poet, MSUM English and humanities professor, photographer, he’s a man of many hats.
He has led memoir workshops with residents at Eventide, he is a 2022-23 visiting Poetry Out Loud poet through the North Dakota Council on the Arts; and be sure to be on the lookout for his photos in the Plains Art Gala this year.
His latest chapbook, “The Shaman Said” is a collection of…
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By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Filmmaker Matt Wolf, whose lovely “Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell” suggests he would be the perfect director to construct the definitive biographical account of the wholly…
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By Annie Prafckeannieprafcke@gmail.com AUSTIN, Texas – As a Chinese-American, connecting to my culture through food is essential, and no dish brings me back to my mother’s kitchen quite like hotdish. Yes, you heard me right –…
By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comNew Jamestown Brewery Serves up Local FlavorThere’s something delicious brewing out here on the prairie and it just so happens to be the newest brewery west of the Red River and east of the…
The drug that keeps re-purposing itselfBy Ellie Liveranieli.liverani.ra@gmail.com There is a drug that is getting a lot of attention nowadays all over the world. It has various commercial names (Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus), but…
By Alicia Underlee NelsonProtests against President Trump’s policies and the cuts made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are planned across North Dakota and western Minnesota Friday, April 4 and…
By Vern Thompsonvern.thompson@rocketmail.com Working in the Bakken oil fields of the Williston Basin is so different from my home in Fargo. I'm not judging, because the people working and living in western North Dakota are very…
