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Corbet designs the American dream/nightmare in ‘The Brutalist’

by Greg Carlson | Cinema | December 17th, 2024

…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comBrady Corbet, the American screen actor turned auteur, is only 36 years old. He doesn’t enjoy the same level of fan adoration that accompanies the projects of Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan and the like, but one imagines that the filmmaker hopes that his third feature…

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​Eggers Unwraps New “Nosferatu” on Christmas Day

by Greg Carlson | Cinema | December 9th, 2024

…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com For the better part of a decade, filmmaker Robert Eggers has worked toward the realization of an adaptation of “Nosferatu,” the genre-defining horror masterpiece originally brought to the screen by F. W. Murnau in 1922. The wait, as it turns out, has been well worth it. Murnau’s German…

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​Holiday Pipes Organ Concert Series

by HPR Contributor | Best Bets | December 4th, 2024

…December 16, 18-20, 12 p.m.Fargo Theatre, 314 Broadway N., FargoDon’t miss an annual Fargo Theatre holiday tradition. The Red River Theatre Organ Society presents (almost) a full week of holiday concerts on the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ. The concerts are free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to…

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Contracting and Deconstruction of Religion

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 4th, 2024

…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comWill God Ever Text Margaret Back and Answer Her Prayers?More than 50 years ago a young Judy Blume wrote about 13-year-old Margaret Simon in a contemporary realistic novel titled “Are You There, God?It’s Me, Margaret.” The daughter of a Christian mother and a Jewish father who were not…

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Arnold takes flight with ‘Bird’

by Greg Carlson | Cinema | December 2nd, 2024

…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com The Oscar-winning writer-director Andrea Arnold returns to scripted, feature-length fiction filmmaking with the quintessentially Arnoldian “Bird,” an unsettling coming-of-age tale set in the hard-edged environs of northern Kent. Arnold’s own personal history, which includes teenage parents and a council estate residency during childhood, has previously inspired the autobiographical…

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​Two Contrasting Visions of Agriculture

by HPR Contributor | Last Word | December 2nd, 2024

…By Curtis W. Stofferahn, Ph.D.Curtis.stofferahn@email.und.edu In June, two events markedly contrasted the difference between two different visions of agriculture: precision agriculture and regenerative agriculture. The dedication of the Grand Farm Innovation Shop and Midwest Ag Summit Panel presented the precision agriculture side of the contrast, while the Barnes County Historical Society’s and Dakota…

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Miracle on South Division Street

by HPR Contributor | Best Bets | December 2nd, 2024

…December 6-22, Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m.Theatre B, 215 10th St. N., MoorheadThe Nowaks have had miracles in the family since the Blessed Mother appeared in Grandpa’s barbershop back in 1942. But a deathbed confession makes them question everything. This big-hearted comedy takes place around a kitchen…

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​Christmas at the Creamery

by HPR Contributor | Best Bets | November 26th, 2024

…Saturday, December 7, 3-8 p.m.Cows & Co Creamery, 7321 1st St. NE, Carrington NDA European Christmas market meets good ol’ fashioned North Dakota fun during this holiday celebration. Enjoy food, merriment, hot drinks, cozy campfires on a cool night and the creamery’s famous farmstead cheese and gelato. Rumor has it…

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Cousins imagines the master: ‘My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock’

by Greg Carlson | Cinema | November 25th, 2024

…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com For many years, Mark Cousins has been one of the most ambitious chroniclers of movie culture. The indefatigable documentarian might be best known for his 2011 project “The Story of Film: An Odyssey.” That 930-minute epic was programmed in America on Turner Classic Movies and is now available…

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (a MAGA response)

by HPR Contributor | Writer's Block | November 23rd, 2024

…Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningBy Robert FrostWhose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen…

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