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by Rob Port | Say Anything | April 8th, 2015
…Last week lawmakers in the North Dakota House of Representatives, after much emotional floor debate, voted down SB 2279 by a nearly two-to-one vote margin.The legislation would have added homosexuals to the state’s list of protected classes, prohibiting discrimination against them for employment, housing, accommodations and business services. The reaction…
by Granville Wood | All About Food | April 8th, 2015
…Hopefully by now you are coming down from the ultimate sugar rush, Easter. I always knew we went a tad overboard with the sweets during the week devoted to the celebration of Christianity. We, as a nation, spent $16.4 billion on candy this past week. That blew my mind. I…
by John Strand | Editorial | April 8th, 2015
…While still in session, the 64th Legislative Assembly needs to right this wrongNorth Dakota’s LGBT anti-discrimination bill down in flames. People in an uproar. Family members fighting on social media. Finger pointing rampant. Some threatening to leave the state. Others forewarning we are now seen in the same light as…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 3rd, 2015
…Gender, class, marriage and parenthood receive a good working over in Ruben Östlund’s hilarious “Force Majeure,” a gorgeously photographed dream/nightmare vacation travelogue that smartly deploys a human-versus-nature leitmotif to situate the First World problems of its protagonists within a conversation about control, self-control and our lack thereof. More preoccupied with…
by Stephen Anderson | Music | April 2nd, 2015
…From the dawn of drum machines and samplers to the neat grids of GarageBand and ProTools, the creative process for solo musicians has been greatly augmented by technology.Stars are born from viral videos, and entire albums are recorded in bedrooms across the world, intangibly contained on hard drives without a…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | April 2nd, 2015
…I’m certain all of you reading this are familiar with the term “Luddite,” but do you know where it comes from?It is a reference to the followers of Ned Ludd, a hero of folklore from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Ludd was said to have destroyed two mechanical knitting…
by Granville Wood | All About Food | April 1st, 2015
…Chaos in the kitchenLast week I went on a rant about dips and how they are important in both culinary and social circles. Well, the actual rant came later when I drew a loose comparison between dips and politicians. The one thing I didn’t share was some recipes for one…
by Jack Dura | Theatre | April 1st, 2015
…‘Daughter of the Regiment’ sees its regional debutFor the Fargo-Moorhead Opera, the 2014 to 2015 season has seen new things all over.From its new office on 25th Street South to staging its last show in a different venue, the company keeps shaking things up, and its season closer couldn’t prove…
by Chris Hennen | Cinema | April 1st, 2015
…Film documents a white supremacist’s attempt to take over a small North Dakota town“Welcome to Leith” is a new documentary, which premiered at the Sundance and SXSW film festivals, that shows the story of white supremacist Craig Cobb moving to Leith, N.D. and the town’s subsequent attempts to removed him,…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | April 1st, 2015
…Next week is the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War. For over a century, numerous films have treated various dramatic aspects of the subject, some of the more famous ranging from “The Birth of a Nation,” “Gone With the Wind,” “The Red Badge of Courage,” “Glory,”…