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​Living through World War II

by HPR Contributor | Culture | July 29th, 2016

…JAMESTOWN – A local news broadcast finished with a clip of US presidential nominee Donald Trump standing before a giant NRA poster. The 2016 Republican candidate gripped a podium’s sides tightly, raised a bushy eyebrow before promising to bring back the American dream.Lore Hornung set her liverwurst on rye down,…

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Poképotential

by HPR Contributor | Culture | July 29th, 2016

…by Ben HaugmoBy now, we’ve all most likely heard about Pokémon Go, the mobile spin-off of Nintendo’s hit franchise, that is seeing players venture out of their homes and into the wild frontier of an augmented reality thriving with the ever-elusive pocket monster.The game has overcome the hiccups of its…

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Mud Morganfield tells HPR where he got his blues

by Sabrina Hornung | Music | July 27th, 2016

…To say that art imitates life would be an understatement in regard to Chicago blues royalty Mud Morganfield’s work. The eldest son of blues legend Muddy Waters wasn’t always in the spotlight with his music, though he was born with the blues coursing through his veins.Growing up Morganfield saw very…

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​Rocking relevance

by Brittney Goodman | Theatre | July 27th, 2016

…Act Up Theatre is bringing the popular stage adaptation of Green Day’s rock opera, American Idiot, to the Frances Frazier Comstock Theatre at Concordia College for a six-night run. Pennie Fike is producing the run for Act Up Theatre, and Rebecca Meyer-Larson is directing the show.The musical “American Idiot” is…

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Portland to the prairie: returning to my roots

by HPR Contributor | Last Word | July 27th, 2016

…By Tessa TorgesonHome is a tangled web at the core of all of our stories—that beautiful ugly mess that we try to escape, sometimes denying the way that it shapes and morphs us. As we mature we realize that home is more than a dot on a map.…

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​Printing by the numbers

by HPR Contributor | Culture | July 27th, 2016

…By Chuck SollySpace prohibits me from doing a full-blown comparison of computer printers. There are many kinds and features, but what I can do is point you to a type of printer based on your printer needs.Inkjet and laser printers have been joined recently by a new type: 3D printers.…

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​Of black and white elephants

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 27th, 2016

…Old and new normalsIn the old normal, until the 1980s, we had lynchings by the Klu Klux Klan and others marked by racial hatred and economic inequality. In the last 30 years we have added conceal and open-carry laws and an absolute tsunami of guns on the streets to the…

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​Read it forward, read it backward

by Särah Nour | Writer's Block | July 27th, 2016

…MSUM English professor and published poet Thom Tammaro recently came out with a new poetry collection, published by Red Dragonfly Press. “23 Poems,” currently available at Zandbroz Variety and on Amazon, is a compilation 40-some years in the making.“Some poems were written as far back as the late 1970s, and…

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HPR exclusive: Jude Montague interview

by HPR Contributor | Culture | July 27th, 2016

…By Jacinta Macheel ZensJude Cowan Montague is a London-based artist with a mind-boggling amount of creative endeavors and a list of accomplishments and degrees to make the staunchest of academics take note. She is a multimedia visual and musical artist, worked as an archivist for the Reuters Television Archive, has…

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​Personal drama examines life in modern China

by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | July 27th, 2016

…“Mountains May Depart” (2015), written and directed by acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke, came out on Blu-ray this month from Kino Video. It’s Zhangke’s first narrative feature since his Cannes Palme d’Or nominee “A Touch of Sin” (2013), which Kino released to Blu-ray in 2014. Both films are effective critiques…

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