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by Greg Carlson | Cinema | January 28th, 2015
…Fan studies scholars should salivate over Neil Berkeley’s portrait of writer/performer Dan Harmon, the self-proclaimed mayor of “Harmontown,” the popular podcast he hosts.Berkeley’s documentary bears the same name as Harmon’s loquacious, therapeutic circus, and hardcore devotees will already be familiar with the details of that freewheeling, improvisational, mental odyssey and…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | January 28th, 2015
…Just about everyone knows of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Rear Window,” with James Stewart as a man convinced that a neighbor has murdered his wife but nobody will believe him.Few remember, however, that earlier that same year a film with a very similar plot came out starring Barbara Stanwyck in a…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | January 28th, 2015
…“Measure would void new North Dakota flaring, oil rules,” screams a headline from the Associated Press about state Rep. Keith Kempenich’s bill to change the process by which oil regulations are passed by the the Industrial Commission.That headline set up a scolding and typically intemperate editorial from the Fargo Forum,…
by Särah Nour | Writer's Block | January 28th, 2015
…It was two weeks ago today that Adam Copeland, Concordia professor and director of theological inquiry, held a reading at Zandbroz Variety for his book “Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House: Wrestling with Faith and College.” This event included free food, coffee and wine, along with copies…
by Jack Dura | Culture | January 28th, 2015
…“Dit-dit-dit-DAAAH.”The man behind the most famous notes in classical music is at the root of a month-long festival set to start this Saturday. It’s BeethovenFest, the inaugural event of events from WinterArts aiming to keep February warm with weeks of cultural and educational entertainment. Spearheaded by Theatre B and the…
by Chris Hennen | News | January 28th, 2015
…Cleanup underway but damage assessment from major spill unknown yetTwo spills affecting western North Dakota has environmental activists concerned and state regulators downplaying their effects. Earlier this month, 3 million gallons of saltwater generated from oil drilling leaked near Blacktail Creek outside Williston, making it the largest spill of its…
by Diane Miller | Editorial | January 28th, 2015
…Hello, February. What a calendar lineup we have here in Fargo-Moorhead.BeethovenFest | All of FebruaryKicking off with a free screening of “Beethoven Lives Upstairs” and an All-Beethoven Concert by the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony on Jan. 31, the area’s first ever BeethovenFest will be a month-long community-wide event celebrating one of the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 28th, 2015
…Gitmo, The Salt People, The Yanomami, The Reindeer People, And UsSo far, paleontologists say our early ancestors learned how to control fire over a million years ago. Modern man took over from the Neanderthals about 40,000 years ago if the scientists are right, and we have made tremendous economic and…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | January 21st, 2015
…Paul Thomas Anderson’s future cult film “Inherent Vice” is soft-boiled detective fiction. Bleary-eyed and hair-tousled, the movie is a pungent, shambling, meandering and thoroughly hilarious shaggy dog story with a non-agenda traceable directly to the likes of Howard Hawks’ adaptation of “The Big Sleep” and its famous anecdote in which…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | January 21st, 2015
…Fifty-five years ago, just as the Civil Rights Movement was growing in America, two films by major directors came out that addressed racial intolerance with a surprising explicitness for the time, outside of obvious social issue dramas.Premiering in April and December 1960, respectively, these were disguised as colorful western action…