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by Jack Dura | Theatre | September 16th, 2015
…Thirteen is no unlucky number for Theatre B. The downtown theater company opens its 13th season Thursday night with “The Art of Bad Man,” a longtime work-in-progress of playwright Vincent Delaney that premiers in Fargo and Seattle this month. A cast of six tells the tale of German prisoners of…
by Chris Hennen | Editorial | September 16th, 2015
…Excitement over Sanders nothing to blow offThe excitement and energy emanating from the Bernie Sanders presidential run is spreading to the Fargo-Moorhead area. It’s easy to see why, he is an unconventional candidate speaking the truth in a time of tremendous skepticism about politicians who have said one thing to…
by HPR Contributor | News | September 16th, 2015
…Acceptance will be their siren songBy Jessy HeglandOn a pleasant June morning in Moorhead, Minn., the sounds of summer construction went underway as it always does; however, on this particular morning something very strange was afoot. A large digital construction sign did not say “slow down, men at work” but…
by Stephen Anderson | Music | September 16th, 2015
…From the manic buzzing of unseen bees that signaled the band’s arrival on the stage of the Bluestem amphitheater down to the last sonic drop of their second encore set, Washington indie rockers Modest Mouse blazed through a nearly two and a half hour set with a seemingly unceasing energy.Founder…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 16th, 2015
…As soon as 15-year-old Minnie Goetze announces “I had sex today” in Marielle Heller’s blistering adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s hybrid prose/graphic novel “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” one can sense all sorts of red alerts and red flags being raised by the (understandably) cautious and concerned. Heller, best known…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | September 16th, 2015
…Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s position in the Iran deal may end up being a big deal for her political career.A big deal on a number of fronts. In fact, this could be akin to the toxic vote on Obamacare North Dakota’s former congressional delegation—former Rep. Earl Pomeroy along with…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 16th, 2015
…Why the 99 percent is so pissed it isn’t going to take it anymore.Why are Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson leading Republican polls for the 2016 presidential nomination? Why is Bernie Sanders beginning to overtake the “inevitable” Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Democratic polls? Only because Hillary is better…
by HPR Contributor | Cinema | September 10th, 2015
…By Kari Lugo“Madd Frank Presents Madd Frank,” directed by Mike Bredon, screened at the Fargo Theatre to a near double-sellout crowd, which seemed to genuinely love local legend Delray Dvoracek aka Madd Frank. He is loved maybe even more now than when his show was in production back in the…
by HPR Contributor | Cinema | September 10th, 2015
…By Brittney GoodmanThe Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Festival, now in its seventh year, will be showing a variety of LGBT-themed films this weekend, Friday-Saturday, Sept. 11 and 12 at the Fargo Theatre. Raymond Rea, film studies professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead, has been leading the festival since its inception in…
by Chris Hennen | Culture | September 10th, 2015
…This weekend I made my first-ever visit to Prince’s studios and concert space known as Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minn., in an attempt to see the Purple One himself. He didn’t promise to appear at this weekend’s three nights of what was billed as international dance parties in celebration of…