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by HPR Staff | Best Bets | September 19th, 2024
…Saturday, September 21, 8 p.m.The Cellar Comedy Club, 614 Main Ave., FargoYou may know him as Marquay or you may know him as Morplay Katana. He DJs, he’s funny and now some of Fargo’s funniest are serving him right and ready. Featured comedians include Josh Dullea, David Standal, Blaise Kautzman,…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | September 19th, 2024
…Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.In and around Vergas, MinnesotaMeet 12 artists at eight locations, with prize drawings at each spot. Enjoy blacksmith demonstrations at Jody Marquardt’s farm (33454 Sybil Lake Road in Vergas) and art at Billy’s Corner Bar and Brianna Mae Designs in downtown Vergas. Play with…
by John Showalter | Music | September 19th, 2024
…By John Showalterjohn.d.showalter@gmail.com Like any metropolitan area, Fargo-Moorhead has a plethora of radio stations representing a variety of musical genres and other content. And like any other playing field in the world of media, there are going to be both the bigger fish (the corporate stations) and the hidden gems.…
by HPR Contributor | Arts | September 19th, 2024
…By HPR Contributorssubmit@hpr1.com They are the inventive, passionate, adaptable, resourceful, sometimes over-enthusiastic, wack-tacular people who create art in our community, and they’re opening their studio doors to you for the 2024 Fargo-Moorhead Visual Artists Studio Crawl party. At fmva.org, there’s a map that shows where these studios are, and you might be…
by John Strand | Editorial | September 19th, 2024
…Happy 30th Birthday HPRBy John Strandjas@hpr1.comThirty years ago some gutsy UND student journalists hanging at Whitey’s in East Grand Forks got enough liquid courage to create their own damn newspaper. Then with drinks raised, they toasted the paper’s name, the High Plains Reader. The first issue was dated September 8,…
by HPR Contributor | All About Food | September 18th, 2024
…By Rick Gionrickgion@gmail.com The vibrant restaurant scene here in Fargo-Moorhead tends to garner much of the social media attention. Although the food buzz is usually about the hottest new restaurant or tasty product, there are also many food-related nonprofits that deserve recognition. This column aims to highlight and describe five…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 16th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker makes an auspicious feature directorial debut with the bracing and stimulating coming-of-age story “Janet Planet.” Focusing on the microscopic details of a complex mother-daughter relationship, the movie is now available to rent on major streaming services following a theatrical run. Baker’s transition…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 9th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Thirty-six years is just a blink in eternity’s endless ocean of the afterlife, but as far as the Hollywood clock goes, it is a massive gulf. Lucky for us fans of Tim Burton’s original 1988 “Beetlejuice” that the key players from the classic horror-comedy decided to join the…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 4th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com In January, Sean Wang’s thoroughly satisfying feature directorial debut “Didi” premiered to plenty of buzz and acclaim at Sundance, where it collected the U.S. Dramatic category’s audience award and a special jury recognition for its ensemble. On a serious roll, Wang has been a busy filmmaker in recent…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 26th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Working from a screenplay she co-wrote with E.T. Feigenbaum, Zoë Kravitz adds a significant new line to her resume with feature directorial debut “Blink Twice.” The gender-focused thriller opens with a trigger warning that tips audience members to the central issue ahead: disturbing depictions of sexual violence will challenge viewers…