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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 27th, 2019
…After All, With A 20 Pound Brain, What Does A Sperm Whale Know?Perhaps because I was a farm kid surrounded by spiders, horses, geese, maggots, pigs, rats, chickens, cats, bullheads, cows, rabbits, squirrels, snakes, dogs, honey bees, crows, and hundreds of other things with brains and nerves, I have been…
by Chris Larson | Cocktail Showdown | March 27th, 2019
…On our ninth week of the Cocktail Showdown, we made just a single stop that showcased one of the most well known restaurants in North Dakota, The Toasted Frog. While they had been locally and regionally celebrated for their restaurants in Fargo, Grand Forks, and Bismarck, the downtown Fargo location…
by Gabrielle Hersch | Arts | March 27th, 2019
…This month at Dakota Fine Art gallery be sure to check out guest artist Mitchel Hoffart’s exhibition, “Flora, Fauna, and the Abstract World.” Hoffart, who lives in Moorhead, is a mixed media artist with an extensive and diverse body of work and a long and growing list of exhibitions and…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | March 27th, 2019
…Set in the fictional Little Woods, North Dakota—a small town in the western oil patch not too far from the Canadian border—Nia DaCosta’s first feature film as writer-director marks an auspicious and confident debut. Recalling some of the same issues explored in Courtney Hunt’s memorable “Frozen…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | March 27th, 2019
…As March roared in like a lion, it appears that it’s leaving a lamb in this final week. Along with that observation we’d like to point out that it’s the final week of Women’s History—or rather HERstory month. According to womenshistorymonth.gov, the intent is “to amplify women’s voices…
by C.S. Hagen | News | March 26th, 2019
…FARGO – Round one of Fargo’s Spring Flood 2019 fight went to the volunteers, many of whom were middle school students. Helped by two large sand-dispensing “spiders” – a tactic used during the 2009 flood to speed up production – mostly eighth graders produced more than 15,000 sandbags Tuesday morning.Rock…
by C.S. Hagen | News | March 25th, 2019
…FARGO – Weeks after a mayoral proclamation announcing February as “Fridguary,” Mayor Tim Mahoney traveled 50 miles south over the weekend, and was amazed at the amount of snow waiting to melt. “The people no longer say North Dakota is flat, thanks to the Fargo snow mountains,” Mahoney said in the…
by C.S. Hagen | Cinema | March 21st, 2019
…FARGO – Most people know the Trail of Tears that followed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The U.S. government – under the direction of President Andrew Jackson – forcibly removed tens of thousands of Natives from their ancestral homes.Thousands were murdered or died along the way west of the Mississippi…
by C.S. Hagen | News | March 21st, 2019
…FARGO – The city is requesting help from the public to produce one million sandbags in preparation for the 2019 Spring Flood. There remains a 10 percent chance waters will rise up to 40.3 feet, higher than the flood of 2009. Two hundred volunteers are need at all times to work…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | March 21st, 2019
…“North Dakota Nice,” is a phrase that I see getting tossed around more and more these days. Many are sincere and others display yet another facet of our disposition that’s not nearly as desirable. Yes, we’re professin’ our passive aggression. Say what you will but North Dakotans are good people.…