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by Diane Miller | All About Food | November 24th, 2015
…By Eric MckenzieThe holidays, a time to gather loved ones to ingest a gloriously gluttonous and gluten-ous feast.According to the 2015 American Society for Nutrition Conference, simple sugar used to constitute about 2% of the average diet. Now it’s upwards of 25%. Nearly everything in the Standard American Holiday Meal…
by HPR Contributor | News | November 24th, 2015
…#loveoverfear What are you so afraid of? By Whitney RetzerThe Economist reports that 750,000 refugees have resettled in America since 9/11, and not one of these refugees have been arrested on domestic terrorism charges. The world has always been a fragile ecosystem living and breathing between the balance of nature…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | November 20th, 2015
…By Josh BoscheeThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is new to most of us. It is a federal agency founded in response to the predatory lending practices that led to the 2007-2009 recession, with a mission to consolidate consumer financial protections authority in one place. The responsibility of the CFPB…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | November 20th, 2015
…By Rilie Ray MorganAs Chairperson of the North Dakota Medical Marijuana Committee, I feel compelled to respond to my old college professor, Lloyd Omdahl and his column on Medical Cannabis. Omdahl’s comments have some fatal flaws.In fairness he does have a couple of things right, the first being that the…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cocktail Showdown | November 20th, 2015
…Week six of the cocktail showdown featured Stephie Basol’s “Adult Lemonade” and Jeremy Tjon’s “Mandarin Mule” at The Empire, as well as Tryoy Wall’s “Great Pumpkin” and “The Woody’s Mule” at Woody’s in south Fargo; From there, we ventured to The Cork ’n Cleaver and were presented with “Just one…
by Särah Nour | Writer's Block | November 20th, 2015
…On Thursday, Dec. 3, Zandbroz Variety will host author Michael Lansing in a reading and signing of his latest book, “Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics,” published this year by the University of Chicago Press. This nonfiction book chronicles the rise and decline of the Nonpartisan League,…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | November 20th, 2015
…Kino’s Blu-ray release of “The Hurricane” the Tuesday before Thanksgiving helps round out the variety of genres handled by prolific filmmaker John Ford now available in high-definition. Ford is best remembered for his westerns, especially those starring John Wayne, such as “Stagecoach,” “Fort Apache,” “Rio Grande,” “The Searchers,” etc., and…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 20th, 2015
…This Is the Way Our Empire Ends—Not With a Bang but a WhimperT.S. Eliot in his poem “The Hollow Men” muses about “This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms,” describing how men and politicians react to the end of empires. At the end of the poem he signs off: “This…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | November 20th, 2015
…Sunday, Nov. 22, 1-5 p.m.The Rourke Art Gallery Museum, 521 Main Ave., MoorheadThis exhibition features Pfeifer’s most recent oil paintings and watercolors in addition to a retrospective displaying his growth as an artist over the years, beginning with his first painting as a student artist at the Rourke in 1963.…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | November 20th, 2015
…Saturday, Nov. 21, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Plains Art Museum, 704 First Avenue N., FargoFargo Daughters of the Earth and Plains Art Museum are joining together to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. The festival will showcase Native American artists from the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Minnesota.