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by C.S. Hagen | News | November 1st, 2018
…FARGO – The differences between competing political rallies in North Dakota is palpable. Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s last push before Election Day – former Vice President Joe Biden attending – was lively, filled with people from all races, and featured Indigenous music performed by the Turtle Mountain Drum Group.Few people among…
by C.S. Hagen | News | November 1st, 2018
…BISMARCK – After medical marijuana’s Measure 5 was passed by more than 64 percent of North Dakotans in 2016, but before the legislature gutted the measure and enacted laws, André Thom, J.D. worked at a Minnesotan marijuana manufacturing company. When invited to speak before the legislature Thom asked for a…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | October 31st, 2018
…by Ryan Jankeryanjanke@hpr1.com photographs by Ryan JankeThe World Powerlifting Organization (WPO) in Orlando, FL will hold its first international event since 2007 next Sunday, November 11 and Fargo’s Marshall Johnson will be there to compete for best-in-the-world honors.Who is the best?This will be the sixth or seventh international competition for…
by C.S. Hagen | News | October 31st, 2018
…BISMARCK – The state’s agenda to suppress the Native vote is already working during early election. A handful of votes have already been denied because their addresses didn’t match the Secretary of State’s confusing database. The suppression is backfiring, however. Indigenous voters are applying for new IDs in record numbers.…
by Sabrina Hornung | Music | October 31st, 2018
…When asked if Aaron “Heatbox” Heaton was ever formally trained to play an instrument he admitted to playing the tuba for seven years. Though during his senior year in high school he found his calling and it wasn’t the tuba. When asked when he realized he could use his mouth…
by HPR Contributor | All About Food | October 31st, 2018
…by Ryan Jankeryanjanke@hpr1.comSeven breweries and seven restaurants are teaming up for the 4th Annual The Pig & The Pint, which will take place at the Sanctuary Events Center in downtown Fargo on Thursday, November 8.The Pig & The Pint is presented by Bernie’s Wines & Liquors who also presents the…
by C.S. Hagen | News | October 31st, 2018
…FARGO – Hours after Savanna Lafontaine Greywind’s body was stuffed into a cramped bathroom closet, police came to search Brooke Lynn Crews’s and William Hoehn’s apartment. They found nothing suspicious, not then, not during a second search, nor a third. The first time police arrived Hoehn was resting on the apartment’s…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | October 31st, 2018
…Unknown to the general public but fascinating to followers of Stanley Kubrick, the name Leon Vitali takes center stage in Tony Zierra’s “Filmworker.” Vitali, who moved from the onscreen role of Lord Bullingdon in “Barry Lyndon” to the offscreen one as Kubrick’s general factotum for a quarter of a century,…
by Jim Fuglie | Last Word | October 31st, 2018
…Okay, against my better judgment, again, I’m going to weigh in on the 2018 election, just a week hence. Here goes.I told Democratic-NPL Congressional candidate Mac Schneider last week that if Heidi Heitkamp wins re-election to the U.S. Senate on November 6, he can expect to head to Washington with…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 31st, 2018
…When anarchy is loosed upon the world A poem by William Butler Yeats perfectly catches the divisiveness of American politics in the Age of Trump. From the Second Coming: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere…