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by HPR Staff | Best Bets | April 18th, 2024
…Saturday, April 202 p.m.Moorhead Public Library118 5th St. S, Moorhead“The Greater Cumberland County Cooking Show,” is a short film that was recently screened at the Fargo Film Festival. Filmmaker Janet Brandeau is doing a mini-road trip around Minnesota for small town (and mid-size town) screenings. One of these stops happens…
by HPR Contributor | News | April 18th, 2024
…By Tammy Jo A. Tafttammyjo.taft@vcsu.edu There are some threads, like those between siblings, parents and children, that can withstand the pressures of time, grief and the unknown. Retired VCSU Professor and Lamoure resident Dr. Gary Ketterling knows this well. Ketterling joined others in the Center for the Arts Gallery at…
by HPR Contributor | Writer's Block | April 18th, 2024
…Alicia Underlee Nelsonalicia@hpr1.com “I think you can tell a lot about a community by the health of its bookstore, because people make a choice,” said Danny Caine, author of “50 Ways to Protect Bookstores” and the co-owner of a bookshop in Kansas. “The people value art, community, they probably value…
by HPR Contributor | All About Food | April 18th, 2024
…By Rick Gionrickgion@gmail.com Ever since Pi Day on March 14 of this year, I’ve been on a pie-eating program. And although the shape of Fargo-Moorhead is not round, pie is definitely an easy to find and an enjoyable dessert option here. As you know by now, when I get chewing…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | April 18th, 2024
…By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.com There’s no exaggeration when we say that this year’s Plains Art Gala is going to be out of this world, with a sci-fi theme inspired by a painting housed in the Plains Art Museum’s permanent collection called “Toward the Sun”by John Berkey. Berkey was an acclaimed North Dakota born…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | April 18th, 2024
…Something exciting is brewing between Amarok Tattoo Studio and Drekker Brewing CompanyBy Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comIt’s no secret that Drekker Brewing Company and Athena Funk, proprietor of Amarok Tattoo Studio, have collaborated on events before such as Fooler’s Ball and DrekkerFest. But they’ve had an even bigger idea brewing for some time. Though it…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | April 18th, 2024
…By Michael M. Millermichael.miller@ndsu.edu Nancy Martin and Connie Ulasewicz co-authored the article, “Ach, Gott, yes, I wish I was back in Russia: Heimat in the Dress of North Dakota’s Black Sea Germans.” It was published in the Journal of the Costume Society of America, Volume 46, 2020. Martin did extensive…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 16th, 2024
…by Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comAccording to my great-grandfather many years ago, my French ancestors migrated from Normandy to Quebec to Manitoba to Wisconsin to Minnesota over the spread of more than two centuries, finally settling in or near Little Falls and then spreading to the Twin Cities. People left Europe for two…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 15th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Documentarian Lance Oppenheim’s “Spermworld” boasts a killer hook to attract the curious: unregulated sperm donors who use social media to offer services to women unhappy with the options provided by traditional “banks.” The filmmaker’s latest feature was inspired by the 2021 New York Times article by Nellie Bowles…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 8th, 2024
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Nobody will mistake director Thea Sharrock’s undercooked “Wicked Little Letters” for Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1943 “Le Corbeau.” Or, for that matter, Otto Preminger’s “Le Corbeau” remake “The 13th Letter” (1951). The poison pen concept has fueled many film plots, and this latest iteration at least has the good sense…