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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…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | January 21st, 2015
…Should it be illegal to exercise your Fourth Amendment rights? A North Dakota law recently upheld by the state Supreme Court does just that.In 2013, lawmakers, pressured by hyperbolic newspaper editorials and activists who went so far as to park a car wreck on the steps of the capitol, passed…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 21st, 2015
…The Cacophonous Cauldron Of Common CoreSome radicals think that Common Core, the education super-baby touted by billionaires, conservative politicians, wealthy foundations, Republican and Democratic governors, Chambers of Commerce, Fortune 500 business leaders, and educational leaders and teachers is now the result of a back alley rape of a poverty-stricken teenager…
by Taylor Blumer | Wellness | January 21st, 2015
…Fifth annual B-B-BRRR Winter Classic Bicycle RaceWho’s afraid of a little cold? Not F-M area cyclists brave enough to compete in the B-B-BRRR Winter Classic Bicycle Race.With the temperatures dropping, roads getting icy and the snow building in drifts, it is finally beginning to resemble a true North Dakota winter…
by Troy Jackson | Theatre | January 21st, 2015
…In life there’s usually two sides to every story.Especially coming from any entertainer with such stature as comedian Lisa Lampanelli. And for those who have willing ears to hear, she has the ability of delivering comedic stories in a way that can be equally hilarious as well as appalling. But…
by Kayla Culver | Music | January 21st, 2015
…North Dakota is celebrating its diverse music scene with its first music award show on Thursday, Feb. 19 hosted by URL Radio. The event will take place at the Belle Mehus Auditorium in Bismarck with live performances by North Dakota artists and presenters.Performers include Lifetime Achievement nominees Clyde Bauman (A.K.A…
by Stephen Anderson | Music | January 21st, 2015
…“What would it sound like if RZA got in the studio with Iggy Pop and Tom Waits?”While this pipedream of a supergroup is a technically viable affair, outside of some sort of one-off, “We are the World”-ish charity sing-along that may or may never come, we’ll have to take what…