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by Paige Johnson | Theatre | June 21st, 2017
…Author, professor, historian and now playwright: Dr. Charlie Barber has taken his love of history to the stage with his new musical, “No Backseat Driver.”Barber’s play is the story of two North Dakota heroes: “Wild Bill” Langer and his wife, Lydia Cady Langer. “I’ve been researching Bill Langer since 1983,”…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | June 21st, 2017
…A couple of classic courtroom dramas and a romantic melodrama about theatrical ambition, all adapted from popular novels of their day, are among the recently released Blu-rays by Kino-Lorber. All were made by major filmmakers with famous stars, yet each is relatively obscure today and deserves to be better-known.“Marjorie Morningstar”…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | June 21st, 2017
…Albert Einstein once said, “The revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the revolution.”This past Sunday marked the 58th year of the Rourke’s Great Midwestern. Though Jim O’Rourke, founder of the Rourke and father of the F-M arts scene, has been gone for a number…
by Jack Hastings | HPR Abroad | June 21st, 2017
…Photos by Jack HastingsAs music festivals in Norway grow, the danger of attending a concert also rises. The Manchester bomb attack following an Ariana Grande concert killed 23 attendees and wounded many more. Festival and concert organizers in the U.K., the U.S., and Norway, which has one of the highest…
by C.S. Hagen | News | June 21st, 2017
…Hawley man arrested in mobile meth lab in FargoFARGO - Fargo Police “broke bad” early Monday morning after discovering a mobile meth lab along the 1800 block of South University. The Fargo Police Department and the Cass County Drug Task Force found a man passed out behind the wheel of…
by Brittney Goodman | Culture | June 21st, 2017
…Do you have what it takes to be an angel? In this case, I am referring to donating your time, money, and physical endurance to raise money for running chairs for special needs adults and children. You can be an “Angel Runner” and push an “Athlete Rider” through a 5K…
by Jim Fuglie | Last Word | June 21st, 2017
…The North Dakota Department of Health has called “Bullsh*t!” on Meridian Energy’s application to construct its Davis Oil Refinery three miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park.In fact, in a strongly-worded letter to Meridian, Terry O’Clair, Director of the Division of Air Quality, says he has actually stopped the review of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Music | June 21st, 2017
…Every so often in rock and roll history, a new act comes to sonically and aesthetically shock and stimulate us. Ghost is one of those acts. The band consists of five “anonymous ghouls” wearing well-tailored black costumes and expressionless gargoyle-like silver masks. Last Saturday the Swedish metal band Ghost made…
by HPR Contributor | HPR Abroad | June 21st, 2017
…By Kaycee Boe and Rachel LevyCarrol Juven, 80, enters the Radisson Blu hotel in Oslo, Norway with a bright red jacket and a walking stick and greets his long-time friend Karl Nyland. This is Juven’s 154th trip to Norway, and the Radisson is his favorite hotel. Juven is the operator…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | June 21st, 2017
…First-time feature filmmaker Cory Finley adapts his own play and comes up with one of the year’s most diabolically pleasurable movies in “Thoroughbred,” a taut exercise in moral darkness. One of the most sure-footed debuts at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, the movie is certain to attract a devoted audience…