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by HPR Staff | Best Bets | September 5th, 2018
…Thursday, September 6, 3:30 p.m.Emily Brooks’ Utility Box, NP Ave & Broadway N., FargoSeven local artists have turned ordinary utility boxes into works of art and they are ready to show them off! This crawl will head north, ending at Emily Williams-Wheeler’s on 6th Avenue and Broadway. You’ll also be…
by John Strand | Editorial | September 5th, 2018
…Odds were stacked against survival for The Little Newspaper That Could from Day One. But here it is, 24 years later, and the High Plains Reader still plays a vital role in the culture and fabric of our local and greater communities.Happy Birthday, HPR!There’s no greater testimony to the value…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 5th, 2018
…Let’s start with a riddleA car containing a father and his teenage son failed to make a curve and hit a tree. The father was killed instantly, but his son was severely injured and was taken to the city’s hospital and immediately wheeled into an operating room. The trauma surgeon…
by John Showalter | Humor | September 5th, 2018
…In the approximately three years I’ve been writing for the High Plains Reader it seems I’ve always circled back to comedian Adam Quesnell. First, I wrote about his farewell show before he set out from Fargo and the comedy scene that he had a hand in creating to Minneapolis. Later…
by Chuck Solly | Culture | September 5th, 2018
…USB charging ports in public places are convenient but possibly risky. Data is transferable over a USB connection, so plugging your phone into an unknown charging port puts it at risk.Let’s be realistic: You probably shouldn’t be too paranoid about these attacks. I haven’t seen widespread reports of charging ports…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | September 5th, 2018
…by Andrew Alexis Varvelmr.a.alexis.varvel@gmail.com“If a piece of equipment purchased in the 1920s is kept up and can guarantee, at present, an operable rate close to 100 percent and if it can bear the production burden placed on it, the machine’s value has not declined a bit. On the other hand,…
by Chris Larson | Music | September 5th, 2018
…It’s only been a little more than a month since former Jamestown/Fargo/Minneapolis musician Jon Wayne uprooted his wife and life and boarded a plane to move to Thailand. At what some might call the pinnacle of his career, touring over 200 dates a year throughout the United States and sharing…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 5th, 2018
…With first-time feature director Carlos Lopez Estrada at the helm, friends/screenwriters/producers/stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal collaborate on “Blindspotting,” one of the year’s most innovative and thought-provoking movies. Just as given to imaginative flights of fantasy as Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”—another Sundance premiere examining the twined…
by Logan Macrae | All About Food | September 5th, 2018
…Hunger is an issue among us, and with 1 in 9 people between Cass and Clay every year using food pantries to sustain themselves it is an issue that needs to be addressed. While we all think about starving children in third world countries and in disaster areas, we must…
by C.S. Hagen | News | September 4th, 2018
…MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Dorothy’s missing ruby slippers were never far from home.Stolen from the Grand Rapids, Minnesota Judy Garland Museum in 2005, a pair of Judy Garland’s magical slippers went missing for 13 years, but agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered “The Wizard of Oz” iconic shoes from…