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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 27th, 2016
…Old and new normalsIn the old normal, until the 1980s, we had lynchings by the Klu Klux Klan and others marked by racial hatred and economic inequality. In the last 30 years we have added conceal and open-carry laws and an absolute tsunami of guns on the streets to the…
by Särah Nour | Writer's Block | July 27th, 2016
…MSUM English professor and published poet Thom Tammaro recently came out with a new poetry collection, published by Red Dragonfly Press. “23 Poems,” currently available at Zandbroz Variety and on Amazon, is a compilation 40-some years in the making.“Some poems were written as far back as the late 1970s, and…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | July 27th, 2016
…By Jacinta Macheel ZensJude Cowan Montague is a London-based artist with a mind-boggling amount of creative endeavors and a list of accomplishments and degrees to make the staunchest of academics take note. She is a multimedia visual and musical artist, worked as an archivist for the Reuters Television Archive, has…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | July 27th, 2016
…“Mountains May Depart” (2015), written and directed by acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke, came out on Blu-ray this month from Kino Video. It’s Zhangke’s first narrative feature since his Cannes Palme d’Or nominee “A Touch of Sin” (2013), which Kino released to Blu-ray in 2014. Both films are effective critiques…
by Sabrina Hornung | Music | July 27th, 2016
…Within the past couple weeks, Fargo-Moorhead pop punk pioneers The Krebscouts had a basement reunion show in Fargo. Members Dan Nygard, Ben Arends, and Jimbo Rosario haven’t had a chance to play as The Krebscouts since their last hurrah in 2000. Now after 16 years, multiple bands, and with a…
by Sabrina Hornung | All About Food | July 27th, 2016
…Bordulac, North Dakota is two hours northwest of Fargo straight off of highway 281 North. The population is around 24, but the Bordulac Bar and Grill seems to be one of 281’s best kept not-so-secrets and has made quite a name for itself in Foster County. The Bordulac Bar and…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | July 27th, 2016
…The insightful Caity Birmingham recently said, “Someday we’ll be able to give ‘Ghostbusters’ an honest B- and cite ten movies that did the female scientist action buddy movie so much better.” You gotta admire the optimism in Ms. Birmingham’s note, since the discourse in the months – even years –…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | July 27th, 2016
…“…by 1934 money was moving out through PWA [The Public Works Administration] into the hands of contractors, manufacturers, engineers, laborers, truckers, carpenters, architects, and deep into the arteries of the economy.” – James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1956 “Forty-seven percent of self-identified Democrats describe themselves as…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | July 27th, 2016
…Thursday, August 4, 5-9pmOn and near Broadway, between the tracksDo not miss. Broadway pleasantly crowded. Last month we saw a 1959 Citroen 2CV—looked like a child had built it with an erector set. Had a BMW motorcycle engine with five times the original motor’s power, and that mother…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | July 27th, 2016
…Wednesday, August 3The Aquarium (Dempsey’s Upstairs) 226 Broadway, Downtown FargoBest show of the week. Slide guitar one-man band. No mic, sings into a telephone receiver inside a motorcycle helmet, does the drum and cymbals with his feet. Kevin Dowling Fitness Hour, Les Dirty Frenchmen, Freddy Glove.Somewhat chaotic, very danceable. Doors…