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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 1st, 2017
…The Sacklers: America’s biggest and richest ‘legal’ drug pushersThe first record of humans using drugs to give themselves highs during their humdrum lives is a 7,000-year-old account of Babylonian Sumerians using opium. The Lake Dwellers of Switzerland ate poppy seeds 4,500 years ago according to historian Ashley Montagu in a…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | November 1st, 2017
…Last week, KFYR reported that “Rugby says it’s once again the geographical center of North America, and the townspeople have a trademark to back it up.”Which isn’t entirely true. Last Saturday we spoke to Bill Bender, mayor of Robinson, ND and proprietor of Hanson’s Bar, which according to the US…
by Hee Han | Culture | November 1st, 2017
…African Soul, American Heart (ASAH) is a nonprofit organization in Fargo to protect, educate, and empower orphans in from the Republic of South Sudan through primary school, secondary school, and beyond. After the civil war in South Sudan, ASAH relocated to northern Uganda to protect their students from the civil…
by Brittney Goodman | Cinema | November 1st, 2017
…Photos by RRATOSThe Red River Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society (RRATOS) is sponsoring a Silent Movie Night, an annual tradition for 43 years, on November 3 and 4 at the historic Fargo Theatre. Tickets are $15 in advance and $17 at the door and can be purchased in…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | November 1st, 2017
…Noah Baumbach’s “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)” comforts fans of the filmmaker like a favorite quilt or a pair of old slippers. Sterling production and an all-star cast could attract the uninitiated to the film’s home on Netflix, and longtime appreciators will laugh and wince at many of Baumbach’s…
by Martin Beckmann | Music | November 1st, 2017
…Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein is a legendary man. His work with the Misfits helped to create and shape a genre. His solo act Doyle is currently on tour with Gwar and will be following it with the As We Die headlining run, starting with a November 6 date at the…
by C.S. Hagen | News | November 1st, 2017
…FARGO – Nearly half a century has passed since North Dakota’s last milk war. In those days, when dairy farmers couldn’t make enough to live, years before North Dakota’s Milk Marketing Board began setting prices, farmers dumped milk on the streets in protest. Shots were fired, fences cut, fires set. Truck…
by C.S. Hagen | News | October 30th, 2017
…FARGO – Two suspects were arrested Sunday after a drive-by shooting in South Fargo.Oscar Kayee, 26, of West Fargo, and Ryan N. Kitch, 21, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy to commit attempted murder, both class A felonies, according to Fargo Police Deputy Chief Joe Anderson.…
by Paige Johnson | Arts | October 27th, 2017
…Jay Fox paints his love letter to the AquariumOne day, Jay Fox started to paint over one of his previous murals in the entryway of The Aquarium. “I went in one day without asking permission, and it pissed a lot of people off,” Fox said. “And I just painted over…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | October 25th, 2017
…Thursday, November 2, 6:30pmComstock House, 506 8th St S, MoorheadAn important trading post at the intersection of a Red River steamboat line and the cart trails that linked St. Paul and Winnipeg, Georgetown was founded 12 years before Fargo. The town’s history reveals the first years of European settlement. 218-299-5511