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by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 8th, 2015
…Gabe Polsky’s “Red Army” skates by as swiftly and forcefully as the larger-than-life hockey personalities it closely examines.Flipping the American “Miracle on Ice” narrative on its head, Polsky’s sharp, attentive documentary invites viewers to see the dominant Cold War rink soldiers of the Soviet Union’s national team not as Ivan…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | April 8th, 2015
…A recently-restored version of a beloved science-fiction classic came out on Blu-ray last month from Twilight Time in a limited release of 5,000 units.“First Men in the Moon” (1964) was a groundbreaking film based on a groundbreaking book by H. G. Wells written more than six decades before men finally…
by Diane Miller | Music | April 8th, 2015
…By Diane Miller and Kayla CulverPump up the outdoor jams, festival season is coming.We’ve compiled a list of the best music festivals within reasonable driving distance from Fargo. Whatever your tastes are—dubstep, country, rock, folk, blues, hip-hop, Christian or jazz—one of these music festivals is bound…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | April 8th, 2015
…Last week lawmakers in the North Dakota House of Representatives, after much emotional floor debate, voted down SB 2279 by a nearly two-to-one vote margin.The legislation would have added homosexuals to the state’s list of protected classes, prohibiting discrimination against them for employment, housing, accommodations and business services. The reaction…
by Granville Wood | All About Food | April 8th, 2015
…Hopefully by now you are coming down from the ultimate sugar rush, Easter. I always knew we went a tad overboard with the sweets during the week devoted to the celebration of Christianity. We, as a nation, spent $16.4 billion on candy this past week. That blew my mind. I…
by John Strand | Editorial | April 8th, 2015
…While still in session, the 64th Legislative Assembly needs to right this wrongNorth Dakota’s LGBT anti-discrimination bill down in flames. People in an uproar. Family members fighting on social media. Finger pointing rampant. Some threatening to leave the state. Others forewarning we are now seen in the same light as…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 3rd, 2015
…Gender, class, marriage and parenthood receive a good working over in Ruben Östlund’s hilarious “Force Majeure,” a gorgeously photographed dream/nightmare vacation travelogue that smartly deploys a human-versus-nature leitmotif to situate the First World problems of its protagonists within a conversation about control, self-control and our lack thereof. More preoccupied with…
by Stephen Anderson | Music | April 2nd, 2015
…From the dawn of drum machines and samplers to the neat grids of GarageBand and ProTools, the creative process for solo musicians has been greatly augmented by technology.Stars are born from viral videos, and entire albums are recorded in bedrooms across the world, intangibly contained on hard drives without a…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | April 2nd, 2015
…I’m certain all of you reading this are familiar with the term “Luddite,” but do you know where it comes from?It is a reference to the followers of Ned Ludd, a hero of folklore from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Ludd was said to have destroyed two mechanical knitting…
by Granville Wood | All About Food | April 1st, 2015
…Chaos in the kitchenLast week I went on a rant about dips and how they are important in both culinary and social circles. Well, the actual rant came later when I drew a loose comparison between dips and politicians. The one thing I didn’t share was some recipes for one…