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by Sabrina Hornung | Music | October 25th, 2017
…HPR interview: Omni bassist/vocalist/songwriter Philip FrobosA city’s music scene is a mother of invention. With lots of bands working, recombinant bands form and sometimes great songwriting is the result. The best example I can think of right now is Omni of Atlanta. They’ve been described as “post-punk jitters, but cool,”…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | October 25th, 2017
…Cryptozoology is considered a pseudoscience. Its purpose is to discern whether the legacy of the sasquatch and yeti are fact or fiction. It questions whether or not monsters walk among us or whether they’re figments of our imagination. Many of these beasts have roots in Native lore as well as…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | October 25th, 2017
…Our opinion: Unlocking the potential of industrial hempHopefully we’ve all heard of industrial hemp referred to as “The Planet Plant.” It has the capability to be used for food, fuel, fiber and pulp for paper. It has long roots in US history, stemming from the Colonial era to World War…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | October 25th, 2017
…Veteran “American Masters” producer and series creator Susan Lacy, whose access to subjects and breadth of knowledge is the envy of scores of documentarians, looks at Steven Spielberg in a nearly two-and-a-half-hour-long portrait for HBO.Simply titled “Spielberg,” the movie is surprisingly safe, conservative, and risk-free. Populated with an endless supply…
by Megan Bartholomay | Beer Snob | October 25th, 2017
…As a wine pro, I’ve been getting a LOT of questions about the effects of the fires in California wine country, so I wanted to lay out some facts and talk a little bit about what it actually means for the counties affected by the fires, and to us as…
by C.S. Hagen | News | October 20th, 2017
…MANDAN – Hundreds of trials for activists who stood against the Dakota Access Pipeline have seen the judge’s gavel, but only two, so far, received jail time.Mary Redway, 64, a retired environmental biologist from Rhode Island, and Alexander Simon, 27, a teacher living in New Mexico, both were found guilty and…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | October 19th, 2017
…When asked what sparked her interest in tattoo culture, Danielle Colby, star of the hit reality TV show ‘American Pickers,’ replied, “I think that came from my grandfather. He was in the Navy, so he was heavily tattooed. I remember he had this one tattoo of the Statue of Liberty…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | October 18th, 2017
…Our opinion: We’ve all been there, been followed, stalked, or worse…On Sunday night, Alyssa Milano tweeted: “Suggested by a friend: If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote “Me too” as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”“Me too”…
by Dima Vitanova | Culture | October 18th, 2017
…Like the many tiny towns that dot the vast expanse of North Dakota, Abercrombie, which rests some 40 minutes south of Fargo, appears quite ordinary. In the north-eastern edge of Richland County, its flat streets rove among homes and local businesses that huddle in the center of large parcels, comfortably…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | October 18th, 2017
…The High Plains Reader ran into Beau, master craftsman, who works with what the Minot Daily news called “junk repurposed into musical masterpieces.”High Plains Reader: How did you get into luthiery?Beau Theige: I came across a guy on YouTube playing a 3-string cigar box and I thought it would be…