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by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | November 19th, 2021
…By Olivia Slyteroslyter@cord.eduFalcon Gott, Sapotaweyak Cree Nation member and filmmaker/photographer, was recently named North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival Native American Programs Director, and has many projects in store for the upcoming months.In high school, Gott began his career as a filmmaker, shooting short videos of his friends at the…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | November 7th, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comHad a home video copy made its way into his eclectic collection, one cannot help but wonder how Ingmar Bergman might have rated Mia Hansen-Løve’s utterly delightful “Bergman Island.” The French director’s first English-language movie is a bold and satisfying metanarrative that uses the legendary Swedish auteur as…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 7th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com Walkabouts and TurnagainsThis is a Critical Race Fact. When Ronald Reagan started his campaign for the presidency at Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1979, he used the phrase “Let’s make America great again.” He didn’t add the words “by making it White again,” but he made it clear to…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | November 1st, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comThe French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunFirst, a note to the naysayers and cynics and grumps and sourpusses and killjoys who would dismiss Wes Anderson as a suffocating ironist infatuated with his dollhouse miniatures and his own cookie cutter formulae recycling the same set of actors…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 30th, 2021
…By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.com Should White Kids Know Ancestors Went to Two Barbecues on a Saturday?1. From a report on lynchings in Georgia: “On May 19, 1918, Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, was lynched by a white mob from Brooks County , Georgia, at Folsom’s…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | October 24th, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comThe many media attempts at Frank Herbert’s epic space fantasy “Dune” speak to its lasting appeal and its potent impact. David Lynch’s movie, defended by the filmmaker’s most ardent supporters but excoriated by a larger chorus disappointed in the heavy hand applied by House De Laurentiis, marked the…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 23rd, 2021
…By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.com Will We Soon See a Documentary Called Requiem For a Lightweight? It’s plain to see The Divided States of America still has two political parties. One is called the Democratic Party. The other is called the United States Supreme Court. The country is now being harassed…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | October 23rd, 2021
…By Sarah Noursacha1689.sc@gmail.comOn Sunday, November 7th, the Spirit Room will hold a reception for “Contaminated Nightmares,” their current exhibition of mixed-media pieces by local artist and musician Adam Bursack. This reception—free and open to the public—will begin at 5 PM and go on until 7 PM, with an artist’s talk,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Music | October 23rd, 2021
…By Sabrina Hornung sabrina@hpr1.comAmanda Standalone is a force, in fact one could say she’s an old soul with the Midas touch of musicality. You may have seen her playing any number of instruments with a bluegrass band: a washtub bass with a burlesque troupe, a musical saw with a jugband,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Music | October 18th, 2021
…By Sabrina Hornung and Jr Lacroixsabrina@hpr1.comProf Comes to Town With a New Album, ‘Powderhorn Suites’Minneapolis-based rapper Prof has undergone a number of changes within a short amount of time. Abruptly dropped from the Rhymesayers label, he went on to release his latest album “Powderhorn Suites.” Prof is best known for…