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by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | June 24th, 2015
…The latest film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel “Far from the Madding Crowd” is currently winding down its limited theatrical run, which started May 1 in just ten theatres, expanded slightly over the next few weeks and is now back to a few hundred screens. It did manage to play…
by Marie Monson | News | June 24th, 2015
…In 2012, the first-ever TEDxFargo event drew just 100 people. Since then, the expected audience has grown about 20-fold. Organizers of this year’s TEDxFargo anticipate up to 2,000 attendees at the Fargo Civic Center July 23—by far the best turnout yet, according to TEDx PR representative Mark Staples.Greg…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | June 24th, 2015
…With the North Dakota Farmers Union having turned in over 22,000 petition signatures to refer the Legislature’s reforms to our state’s corporate farming ban to the June 2016 ballot voters will likely be debating this archaic law thoroughly in the coming months.Yet, already, the Farmers Union folks have a serious credibility…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 24th, 2015
…We Live In Exciting Times….A Writer’s DreamI’m a news junkie. It’s been a wonderful week to live in a world with instant communications dominated by presidential candidate The Donald-I’m very-rich with real hair, and the encyclical by Pope Francis which urges us to save the environment so the poor can…
by Shelly Smithson | All About Food | June 24th, 2015
…Nestled in an unassuming space next door to Bernie’s Wines and Liquors is a little gem of a “coffee shop, wine and beer bar, restaurant, and cheese shop all in one.” Over the past year or so, Luna has undergone some major changes, and it has emerged as one of the…
by Granville Wood | All About Food | June 24th, 2015
…June 21, the official start of summer. The longest day of the year. The day Druid types gather at Stonehenge and celebrate the day reenacting whatever it was those wacky Druids did back in the day. The original Renaissance Festival. Even though our summer might have just begun it’s been…
by HPR Staff | Culture | June 24th, 2015
…Meet 5 local firework experts ... Dave Reuter of Memory FireworksFavorite fireworks as a child:Sparklers and ground-bloom flowersFavorite fireworks as an adult:M5-artillery shellsExploding Rainbow—multi shotSedona—multi shotPrairie Rose—multi shotWhat got you into fireworks?Actually, my wife had worked here in the summer for a few years.…
by Diane Miller | Culture | June 18th, 2015
…“As a minimalist, everything I own serves a purpose or brings me joy. Everything else is out of the way,” Joshua Fields Millburn said to HPR in an interview at Twenty Below Coffee.Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, The Minimalists, were in Fargo for the Misfit Con this past May. During the…
by Chris Hennen | Culture | June 17th, 2015
…Annual celebration aims to promote tolerance and diversityAs UnityND prepares to hold its second annual Unityfest celebration, the man who was the reason for its formation may be resurfacing. UnityND was formed to battle a group of white supremacists who tried to take over the small town of Leith, ND. Last…
by Diane Miller | Music | June 17th, 2015
…The following list might not be the five biggest upcoming concerts, though they certainly feature some of the most one-of-a-kind acts in the country. Tickets are still available for all these shows.ESPERANZA SPALDING @ THE FARGO THEATRE, JUNE 20Esperanza Spalding is arguably one of the best jazz musicians of her…