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by HPR Staff | Best Bets | September 10th, 2015
…Rising Appalachia with Dustin ThomasSun. Sept 13, 9 p.m.The Aquarium above Dempsey’s 226 Broadway, FargoNew Orleans based multi-instrumentalist-sister folk duo Rising Appalachia celebrate the release of their latest album “Wider Circles,” inspired by Mountain odes, activist ballads, hip hop, traditional hymns and folk songs right after appearing at Shangri-La Festival.…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | September 10th, 2015
…Modest Mouse with Good For GrapesTues, Sept. 15, 7 p.m.Bluestem Amphitheater, 801 50th Ave SW, Moorhead, MNAround since the mid 1990s, northwest based Modest Mouse return to the FM area for the first ever time outdoors on the heels of the release of their 6th album “Strangers To Ourselves”, their…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | September 10th, 2015
…John Prine with Kendel CarsonWed. Sept. 16, 7 p.m.Bluestem Amphitheater, 801 50th Ave SW, Moorhead, MNLegendary folk and Americana songwriter John Prine makes a special outdoor appearance at Bluestem much to the delight of his fans in the region. Discovered by recent Bluestem visitor Kris Kristofferson, Prine is probably most…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | September 10th, 2015
…By Samuel BondyWhen I pondered the idea of writing a political opinion piece my brain flooded with passion but also the fear of angry mobs. Being someone who challenges the status quo in a state filled with generational bias is similar to not understanding what the fuss is behind twerking…
by Stephen Anderson | Music | September 10th, 2015
…The Marxist school of sociological thought posits our world as one of unceasing conflict, an undercurrent of discord raging through every instance of human interaction. It’s just as a handy a theory for making sense of large-scale movements like Black Lives Matter as it is for explaining the lesser tensions…
by Taylor Blumer | Theatre | September 10th, 2015
…Devon Glover has played many parts in his time. But this Friday, Sept. 11, the New York-based educator/performer/artist will come to the Rourke Art Museum as The Sonnet Man, introducing the F-M community to a whole new way of thinking about Shakespeare.As The Sonnet Man, Glover engages people through hip…
by Deb Jenkins | All About Food | September 10th, 2015
…With the recent anniversary of Hurricane Katrina I was inspired to write about The Cajun Café.When I sat down with the owner Gary Gilbertson I found that I was meeting with a very happy, laid back, informative fun guy. He never stopped smiling while talking about his place, which I…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | September 10th, 2015
…“I don’t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”That famous and wonderful quote is often attributed, erroneously, to the French Enlightenment writer Voltaire. It was actually written in 1904 by one of his biographers, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, as a summary…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 10th, 2015
…Veteran journalist and hip-hop historian Sacha Jenkins delivers his first feature-length documentary with “Fresh Dressed,” a chronological overview of urban fashion that closely parallels the music scene that rocketed from the New York underground to a global phenomenon packaged by mainstream media conglomerates. Blending a dizzying array of rappers, players…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | September 10th, 2015
…The fifth and final movie in Warner’s Blu-ray box set “The Golden Year: 1939” is arguably the most famous, even among those who have never seen it.For decades “Gone With the Wind” ranked as the all-time box office champion as well as the winner of the most Oscars, eight in…