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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 20th, 2017
…What kind of characters would charge $99 for a case of water?In the days before the solar eclipse safety glasses sold for $8.95 for a five-pack of certified glasses. The day before the eclipse the price was raised to $59. During Hurricane Harvey, some gas stations were charging $20 a…
by Nanci Nelson | Writer's Block | September 20th, 2017
…How a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America’s deadliest drug epidemicUnless you have been living with that undocumented Amazonian tribe for the past ten years, you are aware of the opioid epidemic that is killing our people. The number of kilograms of oxycodone manufactured in the United…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | September 20th, 2017
…Rom-coms are a staple of modern movies and have been for well over a century. This summer two very different variations on the genre spotlighting iconic 20th-century superstars made their Blu-ray debuts from Kino-Lorber. One is a classic updating of a popular 19th-century stage play, the other a wacky cartoon-like…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | September 20th, 2017
…Founded in Minot, North Dakota’s premier independent wrestling company has been tumbling around the prairie and travelling the state with their dynamic production since the spring of 2015. Their talent comes from a core base of regional wrestlers and extends into contracted talent from across the globe. HPR had a…
by Hee Han | Arts | September 20th, 2017
…The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. This nonprofit organization described their mission as “To identify students with their exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.”For the main…
by Hee Han | Arts | September 20th, 2017
…Zhimin Guan has been a professor of art at Minnesota State University since 1998. Guan’s artworks have been exhibited throughout the United States and China and he has appeared in more than 200 selective professional exhibitions and received 25 art awards.Guan grew up in one of China’s ancient regions, called…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | September 20th, 2017
…By Robert Franklin, Esq.parents@nationalparentsorganization.orgIn North Dakota, a child’s chances of spending meaningful time with each parent following divorce have less to do with his parents than what county they divorce in.For example, there’s a whopping 100% difference in joint custody between Grand Forks and Morton counties. Worse, courts are less…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 20th, 2017
…WARNING: The following review reveals plot information. Read only if you have seen “Mother!”With a tongue-in-cheek exclamation point distinguishing it from the likes of Joon-ho Bong’s superior 2009 film and the more than 180 other movies sharing the title, Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” offers fair warning to the curious. Eschewing proper…
by HPR Staff | News | September 20th, 2017
…By Sabrina Hornung and Tom BixbyHe came into the Gladstone Inn in Jamestown and asked if he could use the phone. He had a piece of paper with a name and a phone number on it. The desk clerk gave him the phone.But something was wrong. He couldn’t manage to…
by Martin Beckmann | Music | September 20th, 2017
…When you disembark from the plane in Vegas, the first thing you encounter is slot machines.The airport is a strange combination of a sh*tty casino and an overpriced mall. As you stand and wait for your $13 whopper you begin to notice the stream of outsiders filtering in—every…