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by HPR Staff | Best Bets | December 14th, 2016
…Friday, December 16, 1-5pmRourke Art Museum, 521 Main Ave, MoorheadA group exhibition of small work for holiday giving. Not a bad gift solution for the hard-to-buy-for people on your list; and the present will be unique, not a bland monstrosity from the nearest swillmart. Info: www. therourke.org
by Faye Seidler | Culture | December 14th, 2016
…Last week, I brought up a question many individuals had asked me: why don’t insurance companies have to cover medically necessary transgender surgery? The easy answer is they don’t legally have to, but I feel it is more important to understand the history that led to this lack of coverage.In…
by Chuck Solly | Culture | December 14th, 2016
…I told you before that I am an information junkie. I read reports, surveys, investigations, whatever turns my crank. Since I am older than dirt, I have a tendency to read things that affect my generation. This time I read something that was put out by the Pew Research Center…
by C.S. Hagen | News | December 14th, 2016
… While Arctic winds and near-record snows pummel the prairies, all is not quiet on the pipeline front.The camp that drew tens of thousands of supporters from across the world, Oceti Sakowin, or the Seven Council Fires Camp, has been shut down. The sacred…
by Brittney Goodman | Theatre | December 14th, 2016
…A new play by Wisconsin-based James Devita (“A Winsome Murder,” “Silenced”) is currently being performed by Fargo’s Theatre B in their temporary home, The Broadway Theatre Garage. The play opened Thanksgiving weekend and runs through New Year’s Eve. According to the director, David Wintersteen, it is about “two families finding…
by Tessa Torgeson | Culture | December 14th, 2016
…A woman spends another restless night shivering on a concrete floor, the only source of comfort a rubber mat, thin scratchy blanket and a lumpy pillow. It offers temporary refuge from the bitter Fargo winter. A man found passed out in an alley Downtown is whisked away in an ambulance…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | December 14th, 2016
…With the October 2016 announcement that he would no longer attend international shows to meet fans and sign autographs in person, David Prowse closed a chapter of his life that some “Star Wars” aficionados had anticipated since a 2009 cancer diagnosis and a controversial 2014 claim that the Darth Vader…
by Seng Phengdouangdeth | Culture | December 14th, 2016
…As you enjoy the crisp, clear Midwestern air and gaze up at the stars this winter, taking comfort in the security that a place like Fargo has to offer, it could be hard to feel any sense of unease. It could be hard to think that anything strange or otherworldly…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | December 14th, 2016
…Most fans of international cinema are probably familiar with the names of Luis Buñuel, Pedro Almodóvar, and Alejandro Amenábar. Other important Spanish directors such as Luis García Berlanga, however, are little-known outside of Spain, even though Berlanga’s “Plácido” (1961) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. The film…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 14th, 2016
…Firearms kill one and wound two Minnesotans every dayWhen 23-year-old law clerk Chase Passauer was killed in April of 2016 in the St. Paul law office of North Star Criminal Defense, someone finally kept track of how much his death cost. The eight bullets fired into his body cost about…