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by Stephen Anderson | Music | July 22nd, 2015
…Inaugural Eaux Claires festival a true celebration of musicIn 2008, Justin Vernon was known best, if at all, for the icy falsetto that blew through “For Emma, Forever Ago.” That album, released under the nom de band Bon Iver (appropriately translating to “good winter” in broken French), shot the songwriter…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | July 22nd, 2015
…Filmmaker Liz Garbus, Oscar nominee and 2002 Fargo Film Festival special guest, considers the icon in “What Happened, Miss Simone?” — an often thrilling and sometimes exasperating portrait of the singular singer/songwriter/activist/piano prodigy.Executive-produced by Nina Simone’s only child, Lisa Simone Kelly, Garbus’ film accesses a wealth of personal correspondence, family photographs…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | July 22nd, 2015
…Summer is drive-in season, traditionally a time for movies aimed at teens and sensation-seeking adults. Several of notorious producer Albert Zugsmith’s films are now on Blu-ray. The most critically-acclaimed of them, Orson Welles’ masterful “Touch of Evil” (1958), got a U.S. Blu-ray release in April 2014 from Universal. Olive Films released…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 22nd, 2015
…White Cotton, Brown Tobacco, Black Slavery—And Green Free Enterprise DollarsOur ancestors didn’t wait long. Slavery started in Virginia in 1619 and was “legal” in all British colonies to provide labor for tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations in the Western Hemisphere. I guess if slavery is legal the property on which…
by Phil Hunt | Wellness | July 22nd, 2015
…First-annual Wild Goose Chase Mountain Bike Race this Sunday in Gooseberry ParkBesides its natural beauty, there is something perfect and primal about the woods. Many of us spent hours there as kids on our bikes, growing up, risking (and sustaining) injuries. It was a private world that generations of kids…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | July 22nd, 2015
…Here’s something to make you think about how you use social media.On Thursday night last week I found myself talking to a man who told me that I’d made his mother cry.The man was Fargo resident Kirk Ludwig, who found himself the target of hundreds of Facebook comments calling him a…
by Stephen Anderson | Music | July 17th, 2015
…In 2005, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah released its eponymous debut album to an immediate flurry of praise, largely from fawning music bloggers. Self-released, the album was one of the first to demonstrate the power of social media and blogs like Pitchfork to promote unsigned bands. On a break in…
by Chris Hennen | Editorial | July 15th, 2015
…Fargo was in a bit of an uproar this week after a man was allegedly caught taking pictures of kids swimming at Island Park Pool. While he can’t be criminally charged, he was promptly banned by the Fargo Park District from all city parks. Also, Police identified the man and…
by Krissy Ness | Beer Snob | July 15th, 2015
…By Krissy NessIf you plan on attending the Fargo Street Fair, then don’t skimp on the last day. Enjoy the fair and then shimmy over to the other side of the river into Moorhead’s Davy Park, near Ushers, for the Rare Beer Picnic on Saturday, July 18. The beer will…
by Krissy Ness | Beer Snob | July 15th, 2015
…By Krissy NessTwo months ago Kilstone Brewery opened in Fargo. Located on Seventh Street in north Fargo, this brewery is tucked among the many warehouse buildings in an industrial area. The owners of Kilstone Brewery started their business among family and close friends.As a resident of the Fargo-Moorhead area, I…