6083 results for the search:
by HPR Staff | Culture | May 12th, 2025
…From concerts and car shows to Japanese art and Juneteenth celebrations, there’s so much going on around the region this summer. This year’s High Plains Reader Summer Events Calendar is back and bigger than ever. It’s packed with everything you need to make this the best summer yet. Check out the May events below and mark your…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 9th, 2025
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comThe Fiddler on the roof was taking a big chance after two thousand years of hate Cal Thomas, who seems to hate a lot in a journalistic and broadcasting career where he expresses his conservative views, wrote in a column that “you have to be taught to hate.”…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 9th, 2025
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comOur brave new world is now composed of Oceania, Eurasia, and EastasiaSomebody in the Trump administration has read and liked the results in George Orwell’s “1984.” I suspect one is Stephen Miller, the Trump “policy advisor” who has a black cloud over his head and is always at…
by HPR Contributor | News | June 9th, 2025
…By Alicia Underlee Nelsonalicia@hpr1.comNorth Dakota communities will join a “nationwide day of defiance” against authoritarianism and President Donald Trump’s policies on Saturday, June 14. A range of “No Kings” events (including rallies, protests, theatrical performances and food drives) are planned in Bismarck, Fargo, Bottineau, Devils Lake, Dickinson, Grand Forks, Jamestown, Minot and Williston.These…
by HPR Contributor | Theatre | June 9th, 2025
…By Alicia Underlee Nelsonalicia@hpr1.comAct Up Theatre, in partnership with Minnesota State University Moorhead, will present “The Sound of Music” on June 10-14. All shows are at 7:30 p.m. at the Minnesota State Moorhead’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts, located at 801 13 Street S. in Moorhead.The beloved musical is…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | June 9th, 2025
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com Wes Anderson’s twelfth full-length feature, “The Phoenician Scheme,” sees the idiosyncratic auteur pull back from the elaborate storytelling scaffolding and structures of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Asteroid City,” movies that dazzled viewers with metanarrative gymnastics nesting stories inside stories. Even so, “The Phoenician Scheme” bears enough…
by HPR Contributor | Music | June 9th, 2025
…By Alicia Underlee Nelsonalicia@hpr1.comThe Moorhead Public Library will offer three free, all-ages outdoor concerts featuring regional bands this summer. The series begins on June 12 with the Meat Rabbits, a group that blends traditional polka sounds with modern rock and pop music. The concert will be held outside the Moorhead…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | June 2nd, 2025
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com The writing/directing partnership of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck has to be one of the most curious cases of crazy connect-the-dots career moves in recent cinema. From short documentaries and safe-sex content for the Centers for Disease Control to television work, Boden and Fleck broke through in 2006 with the…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | May 28th, 2025
…June 21, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.Fargo Theatre, 314 Broadway N., Fargo“We Watch Shudder,” Fargo’s favorite horror podcasters, bring on the darkness during the longest day of the year. The Darkest Day of Horror Film Festival features 12 hours of indie horror flicks for your viewing pleasure right and ready in…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 28th, 2025
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comFor sale: White House in D.C. housing dung beetles and giant leechesI suspect someone close to Donald Trump has read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,”because the Trump administration is following the guidelines developed by the Hitler administration from about 1932 through the spring of 1945.…