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by Chuck Solly | Culture | February 21st, 2018
…One of the most annoying things on the web is advertising that interrupts what you are doing. I’m talking about the pop-up ads, the videos that start playing as soon as your browser opens the page. You get the idea.Well, it seems that Google’s Chrome browser is fixing some of…
by John Showalter | Arts | February 21st, 2018
…In my tenure at the High Plains Reader, I have devoted a lot of column inches to promoting the local music scene of the Red River Valley. However, I would be doing an injustice if I didn’t also bring your attention to another important facet of Fargo-Moorhead’s artistic culture: the…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | February 21st, 2018
…By Gary Olsonolsong@moravian.edu Radical: Derived from the Latin radix, which literally means the root or base. In political terms it means penetrating beyond conventional explanations and getting at the root cause of a problem.In her book Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag puzzled over people who still express surprise about…
by Chris Larson | Cocktail Showdown | February 21st, 2018
…Although the temperatures were sub zero last Sunday, the crowd and competitors were certainly on fire at the Holiday Inn in Fargo for the 5th Annual Bartenders Battle.This event has become a highlight of the year for the service industry and this year’s Tiki theme was without a doubt well…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 21st, 2018
…When will we learn to share wealth?Last week I wrote about how many predictions made by Aldous Huxley in his 1932 book “Brave New World” were beginning to come true in 2018.When I read the toll to travel on Interstate 66 in northern Virginia last Tuesday morning reached $47.25 during…
by Sabrina Hornung | Music | February 21st, 2018
…“There is one all-around theme to the record, but each record has its own individual idea, mostly that going back and forth of finding out where home is.” said Max Patzner, guitarist, artist and lead vocals of the Minot-based indie folk band Wild Hands. He went on to say, “We…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | February 21st, 2018
…I was 14 in 1999 when Columbine happened. I remember feeling the shock, horror, and overall sickness that comes with a national tragedy of that caliber.According to a February 15, 2018 article in The Washington Post by John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich, “An ongoing Washington Post analysis has found…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | February 21st, 2018
…Hungarian filmmaker Ildiko Enyedi, whose 1989 debut “My Twentieth Century” won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, achieved another career highlight recently with an Oscar nomination for her most recent feature. “On Body and Soul"has been selected to compete for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | February 21st, 2018
…“He (Abraham Lincoln) would have proven the best friend the South could have had and saved much of the wrangling and bitterness of feeling brought out by reconstruction under a President (Andrew Johnson) who at first wished to revenge himself upon southern men of better social standing than himself, but…
by Chris Larson | Cocktail Showdown | February 21st, 2018
…Round one: tequilaStrawberry Cilantro SourI chose Casa Noble Anejo Tequila for this drink because its deep vanilla and oak characteristics reminded me of a smooth whiskey. With whiskey on my mind, I decided to play on the traditional whiskey sour with egg whites. I started adding 2 egg whites to an…