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by Chris Hennen | News | September 3rd, 2015
…Later this month, a series of events called Welcoming Week will happen throughout Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo to mark ways the community can celebrate refugees coming to the region with open arms. In light of that and a recent controversy over some refugees coming to Fargo through Lutheran Social…
by Taylor Blumer | Culture | September 3rd, 2015
…The hilly, rural area surrounding the quiet hamlet of Rollag, Minn., will transform during this Labor Day weekend, as thousands of people from all walks of life gather for a multi-day happening to enjoy food, music and … steam engines?That’s right. The 62nd Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion (WMSTR) –…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | September 3rd, 2015
…Wycinanki, pronounced vee-chee-nine-key, is the Polish art of papercutting. The distinguishing factor is the colorful, often symmetrical, layered paper cutouts. Tower City-based Meridee Erickson-Stowman learned the folk art wycinanki from Leona Wojcik Barthle, a woman of Polish descent who was based out of Sioux Falls, S.D. The pair met in…
by Sabrina Hornung | All About Food | September 3rd, 2015
…Rainy Days and Mondays tend to bring me to Downer…but really so have sunny days and any other day of the week. Why Downer you may ask? The town itself has a population of less than 100 and is located between Barnesville and Moorhead and is home to The Mainline…
by Sabrina Hornung | Music | September 3rd, 2015
…In 2004 Chris Lindstrom and his bandmate Chris Moore wanted to throw a party—a BIG party. Both were active in the music scene and the idea of a battle of the bands came about. Add a $10 30 pack of Hamm’s as an entry fee, enter 10 bands…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | September 3rd, 2015
…Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, had some sharp words for the approach to climate policy taken by his state’s Republican-led western neighbor.“These other states like North Dakota ... just have their heads in the sand and want to profit and then pollute our air accordingly,” Dayton said during an…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 3rd, 2015
…Corporate cults and the industrial revolution: it ain’t over until it’s really overBusiness and labor have been battling each other since the invention of the cotton gin and the loom revolutionized the textile and clothing business in England and America in the early 19th Century. In a very short period…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 3rd, 2015
…Filmmaker James Ponsoldt follows the success of “The Spectacular Now” with “The End of the Tour,” a fictionalized rendering of David Lipsky’s memoir “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” an account of Lipsky’s experiences traveling with writer David Foster Wallace over five days while the latter was promoting…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | September 3rd, 2015
…Yet another of the memorable major releases of 1939 in this summer’s “The Golden Year” Blu-ray collection from Warner Home Video is the RKO remake of Universal’s classic 1923 production, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” The two films were adapted and heavily altered in various ways from Victor Hugo’s famous…
by John Strand | Editorial | September 3rd, 2015
…Two weeks in a row we’re reading about the unfolding race for governor in North Dakota. Little did we know when we mentioned Drew Wrigley as perceived heir apparent to the post, that in a matter of days his political world would be rocked big time.Among most political pundits and…