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by Sabrina Hornung | News | November 14th, 2023
…By Maddie Robinson maddierobi.mr@gmail.comIn order to get affordable child care for her son, Paulina Erbele has to drive from her work in Gackle, North Dakota to his child care facility an hour away in Wishek and then back home, a total of 80 miles every day.Erbele, a history teacher who…
by Sabrina Hornung | All About Food | November 13th, 2023
…By Rick Gionrickgion@gmail.comThe temperatures have dropped and so have the leaves in the Upper Midwest. That means it’s now the holiday season. Part of the joy of this special season for me is eating. But first things first. Before the eating begins, it’s necessary to know where to get all…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | November 13th, 2023
…By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comRemember the legacy of the NPL.Last Saturday I had the opportunity to attend the annual meeting and dinner hosted by the Dakota Resource Council in Bismarck. I came in feeling a little defeated, jaded with not only regional politics, but national politics and pretty much anything in between.Michael…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | November 12th, 2023
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comFocus Features gets a nifty opening credits layout as part of a throwback sequence capitalizing on the heavy New Hollywood nostalgia that suffuses Alexander Payne’s comic melodrama “The Holdovers.” Reuniting with “Sideways” star Paul Giamatti, Payne’s new movie is his first feature since the bizarre 2017 sci-fi misfire…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 11th, 2023
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com“Trump Cabinet Member: ‘If a Document Has a Staple in It, Don’t Give It to Trump.’”Among the most fascinating papers in the world would be the transcripts of Donald Trump from the elite universities he attended. What courses did he take? What were his major studies? His speech…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | November 5th, 2023
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comSeveral reports discussing behind-the-scenes communications and differences of opinion between Priscilla Presley (credited as one of the new film’s executive producers), the late Lisa Marie Presley (who died in January), and others with financial and personal interests in the legacy of Elvis add a fascinating intertextual layer to…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 4th, 2023
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comWell, Whaddaya Know! Barbarians Have the Same Life Expectancy!A barbarian is defined as one belonging to a people or tribe considered to be a primitive civilization filled with fierce, brutal, and cruel persons who are uncultured and insensitive. If there has been a century in the history of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | October 31st, 2023
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comDespite accusations that not a lot happens in “Showing Up,” the Kelly Reichardt feature starring Michelle Williams that debuted at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, admirers of the brilliant filmmaker’s impressive oeuvre won’t be dissuaded from spending time in the Reichardt cinematic universe. Reichardt’s feel for and investment…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 28th, 2023
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comEverybody Needs to Understand Critical Economic and Racial FactsOnce in a great while one runs across an innocent-looking article that is like a combined X-ray, sonogram, and MRI examining your country. Daniel Immerwahr in the October 23 New Yorker in “The Pitchfork of History: Beyond the myth of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | October 22nd, 2023
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comDoing press for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese has defended the movie’s three and a half hour running time (presented during its theatrical engagement with no intermission), but the results on the screen do the real talking. The master director’s latest American original – a sturdy…