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by HPR Contributor | HPR Abroad | August 13th, 2024
…By Alicia Underlee Nelsonalicia.underlee.nelson@gmail.com I am stretched out on the window seat in my hotel room, watching a gentle rain paint the sidewalks of downtown Columbus. “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac spins on the turntable I borrowed from the front desk at The Junto, an almost impossibly well-stocked boutique hotel along the banks…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 12th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com The behind-the-scenes drama swirling around Vera Drew’s feature directorial debut “The People’s Joker” has provided nearly as much excitement as the movie itself, an entertaining DIY bildungsroman built from bits and pieces of the decades-long media juggernaut driven by the mythology surrounding the most consistently popular American comic book…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 6th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Vivacious, candid, and magnetic as ever, the now 83-year-old silver screen legend Faye Dunaway is profiled in a feature length documentary by veteran Laurent Bouzereau for HBO. With the full participation of the outspoken star and her son Liam, Bouzereau’s “Faye” cherry-picks key milestones that form a serviceable…
by John Showalter | Music | August 3rd, 2024
…Lamb of God celebrates 20th anniversary of a seminal albumby John Showalterjohn.d.showalter@gmail.comPhoto by Travis ShinnWhen the band Burn the Priest formed in 1994, they likely did not realize the impact that they would have on the metal genre. Thirty years later, the band is still going strong, albeit with a few…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 3rd, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Writer/director/performer Kit Zauhar’s indieworld ascendancy continues its upward trajectory with sophomore feature “This Closeness,” which enjoyed a limited theatrical release this summer following a world premiere at South by Southwest in 2023. The movie is now available on streaming platform MUBI. The action unfolds in a cheap, two-bedroom…
by Jim Fuglie | All About Food | August 3rd, 2024
…By Jim Fugliejimfuglie920@gmail.com I’m writing this on the day after the Fourth of July, so I’m thinking patriotic thoughts. But none of those thoughts envision Donald Trump serving a second term as president of the United States, or Douglas Burgum being the first North Dakotan to lose a race for…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | July 26th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Even though he is only fifty years old, Osgood “Oz” Perkins has been linked to the legacy of his father’s titanic portrayal of Norman Bates for more than four decades, when he appeared onscreen in 1983 as the younger version of Bates in “Psycho II.” As an adult, Perkins…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | July 18th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s sophomore feature “Dandelion” is now playing in theaters following a world premiere at South by Southwest in March. The movie stars KiKi Layne as the titular singer-songwriter, a young Cincinnati woman looking for artistic and personal fulfillment while holding down a sparsely attended three-night-a-week hotel bar…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 18th, 2024
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comHow can anyone be lonely with eight billion homo sapiens on Earth?The world seems to be in the throes of a PTSD pandemic. Even the price of happiness is going way up. Back in 2010 two Nobel Prize laureates studied the complexities of happiness and determined that in…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | July 18th, 2024
…By Madeline Lukemzlnd@yahoo.com About 100 years ago the state of agriculture in North Dakota was pretty dire. Minnesota banks, grain mills, and railroads treated ND as a colony; they extracted our labor and natural resources for their own profit. After years of being on the bad end of a poor…