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by Rob Port | Say Anything | January 28th, 2015
…“Measure would void new North Dakota flaring, oil rules,” screams a headline from the Associated Press about state Rep. Keith Kempenich’s bill to change the process by which oil regulations are passed by the the Industrial Commission.That headline set up a scolding and typically intemperate editorial from the Fargo Forum,…
by Särah Nour | Writer's Block | January 28th, 2015
…It was two weeks ago today that Adam Copeland, Concordia professor and director of theological inquiry, held a reading at Zandbroz Variety for his book “Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House: Wrestling with Faith and College.” This event included free food, coffee and wine, along with copies…
by Jack Dura | Culture | January 28th, 2015
…“Dit-dit-dit-DAAAH.”The man behind the most famous notes in classical music is at the root of a month-long festival set to start this Saturday. It’s BeethovenFest, the inaugural event of events from WinterArts aiming to keep February warm with weeks of cultural and educational entertainment. Spearheaded by Theatre B and the…
by Chris Hennen | News | January 28th, 2015
…Cleanup underway but damage assessment from major spill unknown yetTwo spills affecting western North Dakota has environmental activists concerned and state regulators downplaying their effects. Earlier this month, 3 million gallons of saltwater generated from oil drilling leaked near Blacktail Creek outside Williston, making it the largest spill of its…
by Diane Miller | Editorial | January 28th, 2015
…Hello, February. What a calendar lineup we have here in Fargo-Moorhead.BeethovenFest | All of FebruaryKicking off with a free screening of “Beethoven Lives Upstairs” and an All-Beethoven Concert by the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony on Jan. 31, the area’s first ever BeethovenFest will be a month-long community-wide event celebrating one of the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 28th, 2015
…Gitmo, The Salt People, The Yanomami, The Reindeer People, And UsSo far, paleontologists say our early ancestors learned how to control fire over a million years ago. Modern man took over from the Neanderthals about 40,000 years ago if the scientists are right, and we have made tremendous economic and…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | January 21st, 2015
…Paul Thomas Anderson’s future cult film “Inherent Vice” is soft-boiled detective fiction. Bleary-eyed and hair-tousled, the movie is a pungent, shambling, meandering and thoroughly hilarious shaggy dog story with a non-agenda traceable directly to the likes of Howard Hawks’ adaptation of “The Big Sleep” and its famous anecdote in which…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | January 21st, 2015
…Fifty-five years ago, just as the Civil Rights Movement was growing in America, two films by major directors came out that addressed racial intolerance with a surprising explicitness for the time, outside of obvious social issue dramas.Premiering in April and December 1960, respectively, these were disguised as colorful western action…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | January 21st, 2015
…Should it be illegal to exercise your Fourth Amendment rights? A North Dakota law recently upheld by the state Supreme Court does just that.In 2013, lawmakers, pressured by hyperbolic newspaper editorials and activists who went so far as to park a car wreck on the steps of the capitol, passed…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 21st, 2015
…The Cacophonous Cauldron Of Common CoreSome radicals think that Common Core, the education super-baby touted by billionaires, conservative politicians, wealthy foundations, Republican and Democratic governors, Chambers of Commerce, Fortune 500 business leaders, and educational leaders and teachers is now the result of a back alley rape of a poverty-stricken teenager…