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by Dima Vitanova | News | August 23rd, 2017
…Photo by Sabrina Hornung Photo Slug: Dennis Neustel in his field near Robinson ND The month of May usually ushers rains that nourish the land. This year, however, the spring showers did not come and drought gripped most of North Dakota, parching the landscape. The western half of the state…
by John Showalter | Music | August 23rd, 2017
…The “big band” is truly ubiquitous in the United States. Ever since the jazz-influenced genre of music first appeared and had its peak popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, it has stuck around, even having a resurgence in the 1990s and still being listened to this day.No matter the musical…
by John Showalter | Culture | August 23rd, 2017
…As I walked inside from Broadway that dreary, overcast early evening, I was unaware I was about to see some amazing sights without ever having to leave my seat. I was entering “Be More Colorful,” a Fargo virtual reality firm that had just turned one year old on August 1st.…
by Faye Seidler | Culture | August 23rd, 2017
…I was recently asked for advice on how to appropriately write a trans character for a piece of fiction. This is a great question, because the vast majority of people get it incredibly wrong. I tend not to read or watch media that features trans characters, because their storylines are…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 23rd, 2017
…Photo: Wikipedia: Regiment of Armaments surrender Battle of Moscow‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven’ The recent clashes between white supremacists and American ideals actually started hundreds of years ago in the Jewish pogroms of Europe and Russia, and when the first black…
by Chris Larson | Beer Snob | August 23rd, 2017
…On Monday I had a special opportunity to learn more about Brazil’s favorite distilled spirit, cachaça, directly from the founder of one of the highest quality brands of cachaça, Novo Fogo. While Dragos Axinte himself has quite a fascinating story that could fill my entire column, it was the premium…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | August 23rd, 2017
…Wednesday, August 23, marks the untimely death at age 31 of movie superstar and international sex symbol Rudolph Valentino. Sicilian-born Valentino had become the celebrity symbol representing the 1920s, the archetypal “latin lover” soon imitated by numerous other actors, within eight years after he emigrated to the United States at…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | August 23rd, 2017
…Gary Greff’s new sculpture and the future of the Enchanted HighwayWhen HPR spoke to Gary Greff in 2015 he was in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign to fund his latest sculpture. We spoke of his plans to build a 70-foot spider web composed of ¾ inch cables suspended from…
by Brittney Goodman | Culture | August 23rd, 2017
…Bismarck is going to be the place to be on Saturday, August 26, as the Native American Development Center is bringing a full day and evening of free activities to celebrate and educate. The experience is sponsored by The Bush Foundation.According to Lorraine Davis, the Founding Executive Director of the…
by Hee Han | Culture | August 23rd, 2017
…One Love Tennis Inc. was founded in 2011 as a non-profit organization and designed to reach underprivileged and low-income youth through affordable tennis, education, and fitness. Founder Michael-Ray Pallares is a professional tennis player. “Tennis has been such a gift to me. It has allowed me to travel the world,…