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by Chuck Solly | Culture | June 21st, 2017
…Well, blocking anyway…The new headline reads: “Google plans to clean up the web with Chrome ad blocker next year.” For those of you who have ever tried to read news stories on Google or many other news sources, you have run into multiple ads that vie for your attention. It…
by John Showalter | Music | June 21st, 2017
…Pursuing a hobby, much less a career in music is more difficult than just picking up an instrument. Though the passion may be there, the cost of equipment and lessons can be prohibitive.Of course this is something that Fargo-Moorhead rock star Nathan ‘Natanic’ Pehler, of Brutalur among other projects, realized…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | June 21st, 2017
…By Mrisha SharmaAn unusual bar is serving up biases and its patrons are sending their own biases right back.The bar is the Bias Bar, an interactive exhibit at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. It shares space on the first floor with Detours, an exhibition about people who find…
by Faye Seidler | Culture | June 21st, 2017
…The Community Uplift Program (CUP), a local nonprofit, is hosting a discussion about Transgender Healthcare at the Fargo-Moorhead Unitarian Universalist Church (121 9th St S Fargo), June 27th, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. This event is open to the public and will provide water, coffee, snacks to those who attend.I’ll be…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 21st, 2017
…From Homer’s Odyssey to Buddy Holly: The times they are a-changin’When Robert Zimmerman, born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, better known as Bob Dylan, won the Nobel Prize for Literature (worth almost a cool $1 million), he said, “When I received this Nobel Prize for literature, I got to…
by Logan Macrae | All About Food | June 21st, 2017
…On a sultry Thursday night, I sauntered into Luna. Situated on South University next to Bernie’s Beer and Wine, it isn’t exactly a hole in the wall, but it is certainly off the beaten path, and as described by their motto it is truly the neighborhood kitchen. The interior is…
by Chris Larson | Beer Snob | June 21st, 2017
…Here in the upper midwest we love the summer season for so many different reasons but two of the big reasons I love summer are fresh produce and being outside with a beer in my hand. Sometimes, when I’m spending the day in the hot sun, bringing both together with…
by Paige Johnson | Theatre | June 21st, 2017
…Author, professor, historian and now playwright: Dr. Charlie Barber has taken his love of history to the stage with his new musical, “No Backseat Driver.”Barber’s play is the story of two North Dakota heroes: “Wild Bill” Langer and his wife, Lydia Cady Langer. “I’ve been researching Bill Langer since 1983,”…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | June 21st, 2017
…A couple of classic courtroom dramas and a romantic melodrama about theatrical ambition, all adapted from popular novels of their day, are among the recently released Blu-rays by Kino-Lorber. All were made by major filmmakers with famous stars, yet each is relatively obscure today and deserves to be better-known.“Marjorie Morningstar”…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | June 21st, 2017
…Albert Einstein once said, “The revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the revolution.”This past Sunday marked the 58th year of the Rourke’s Great Midwestern. Though Jim O’Rourke, founder of the Rourke and father of the F-M arts scene, has been gone for a number…