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by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 11th, 2026
…By Greg Carlson Issues of gender reside at the heart of Rory Kennedy’s entertaining documentary “Queen of Chess,” available on Netflix following a January world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. In the feature, Kennedy explores the remarkable career and achievements of the phenomenal Judit Polgár. The Hungarian’s staggering stat line…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 11th, 2026
…By Ed RaymondWe have trillions of reasons why the world is a mess Medical researchers have determined that the normal adult human body contains about thirty trillion cells and that at least four million of them are replaced each second we live. How’s that for openers? A perfect time for…
by HPR Contributor | Cinema | May 11th, 2026
…By Blaise Balas If you asked a random person on the street if they could name a silent movie star, odds are one of the first they would come up with would be Buster Keaton. And for very good reason; famous for his expressive face, extraordinary physical abilities, and the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 4th, 2026
…By Ed RaymondAre we learning from chimps or are they learning from us?Here we are, involved in a number of wars in a dozen Middle East countries, and researchers in Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered that a large chimpanzee group, our close relatives, is involved in a serious civil…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 4th, 2026
…By Greg Carlson Leagues more entertaining than its logline and/or trailer might initially suggest, Renny Harlin’s “Deep Water” smartly avoids taking itself too seriously by fully embracing its delightfully trashy pedigree as a genre-bending mashup of classic disaster movie and shark attack chiller. Coming together under the big umbrella of…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 27th, 2026
…By Greg CarlsonKristen Stewart’s critically well-received directorial debut should do better in its second life on digital streaming platforms and VOD than it did during the very limited theatrical release it received stateside at the tail of end of 2025. For physical media collectors overseas (as well as those in…
by Jim Fuglie | Last Word | April 24th, 2026
…By Jim Fuglie Okay, here I go again, warning (whining? complaining?) about another threat to the North Dakota badlands. Sorry. Please put up with me for a few hundred more words. Now, some folks I don’t think want to put a landing strip for their personal private airplanes out in…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | April 24th, 2026
…By Michael M. Miller Francie M. Berg, native of Hettinger, N.D., edited an impressive book, “Ethnic Heritage in North Dakota,” published in 1983. She grew up on a ranch near Miles City, Montana. Her son, Richard Berg, is Interim President at NDSU. In her article, “Most North Dakota Germans came…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 24th, 2026
…About the leader who sits so far-right from God he can’t see Him I have been reading Harvard PHD Heather Cox Richardson for more than a decade because she knows how important Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is in the study of our history. She published “Democracy Awakening: Notes on…
by HPR Contributor | Arts | April 24th, 2026
…Friday, May 8 - Sunday, May 10, 2-8 p.m.Brewhalla, 1702 1st Ave. N., FargoAmarok Tattoo is working with our pals at Drekker Brewing/Brewhalla to celebrate ink and everything odd and a little macabre. See some of the best in the tattoo biz at work and maybe even get tattooed yourself. Day and weekend…