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by Faye Seidler | Culture | August 23rd, 2017
…I was recently asked for advice on how to appropriately write a trans character for a piece of fiction. This is a great question, because the vast majority of people get it incredibly wrong. I tend not to read or watch media that features trans characters, because their storylines are…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 23rd, 2017
…Photo: Wikipedia: Regiment of Armaments surrender Battle of Moscow‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven’ The recent clashes between white supremacists and American ideals actually started hundreds of years ago in the Jewish pogroms of Europe and Russia, and when the first black…
by Chris Larson | Beer Snob | August 23rd, 2017
…On Monday I had a special opportunity to learn more about Brazil’s favorite distilled spirit, cachaça, directly from the founder of one of the highest quality brands of cachaça, Novo Fogo. While Dragos Axinte himself has quite a fascinating story that could fill my entire column, it was the premium…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | August 23rd, 2017
…Wednesday, August 23, marks the untimely death at age 31 of movie superstar and international sex symbol Rudolph Valentino. Sicilian-born Valentino had become the celebrity symbol representing the 1920s, the archetypal “latin lover” soon imitated by numerous other actors, within eight years after he emigrated to the United States at…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | August 23rd, 2017
…Gary Greff’s new sculpture and the future of the Enchanted HighwayWhen HPR spoke to Gary Greff in 2015 he was in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign to fund his latest sculpture. We spoke of his plans to build a 70-foot spider web composed of ¾ inch cables suspended from…
by Brittney Goodman | Culture | August 23rd, 2017
…Bismarck is going to be the place to be on Saturday, August 26, as the Native American Development Center is bringing a full day and evening of free activities to celebrate and educate. The experience is sponsored by The Bush Foundation.According to Lorraine Davis, the Founding Executive Director of the…
by Hee Han | Culture | August 23rd, 2017
…One Love Tennis Inc. was founded in 2011 as a non-profit organization and designed to reach underprivileged and low-income youth through affordable tennis, education, and fitness. Founder Michael-Ray Pallares is a professional tennis player. “Tennis has been such a gift to me. It has allowed me to travel the world,…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 23rd, 2017
…Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky” ends the filmmaker’s short-lived “retirement” from directing theatrically-released features, and his return to cinemas is a welcome one. Extending his well-documented penchant for pseudonymous tomfoolery, “Logan Lucky” spreads the wealth to cinematographer Peter Andrews and editor Mary Ann Bernard, two of the director’s common disguises. The…
by Megan Bartholomay | Beer Snob | August 23rd, 2017
…In my last column, I talked about what wine industry experts call “The Sideways effect,” which was the period of time after the release of the film “Sideways” in 2004 when the sales of pinot noir rose, and continue to rise, and merlot kind of, well, tanked. I think merlot…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | August 23rd, 2017
…“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” – Edmund Burke“The history of the twentieth century has taught us that people who are rendered permanently superfluous are eventually condemned to segregated precincts of the living dead or are exterminated outright.” – Richard Rubenstein“To the Nazi economists goes the credit for…