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by Zac Echola | Last Word | July 29th, 2015
…Someone said “SOMA” to describe to me the location of Island Park in Fargo and I couldn’t stop laughing when I found out what it meant. In fact, I’m still laughing.SOMA means “South of Main Avenue” for people too lazy to say all four words consecutively. I imagine the alphabet…
by Tessa Beck | Arts | July 29th, 2015
…St. Paul-based artist combines wit and whimsy to add social commentary to the walls of local museumThe playful surface of Julie Buffalohead’s “Coyote Dreams” show at the Plains Art Museum covers only a fraction of the multi-faceted expression that occurs within the work. Based in St. Paul, Minn., Buffalohead has…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | July 29th, 2015
…A chat with Cindi Wish from the Jamestown Art CenterCindi Wish is a relatively new addition to North Dakota. Originally from Cape Cod, Mass., she admits that prior to her interview for the executive director position at The Arts Center in Jamestown, N.D., she had never set foot in N.D.…
by Taylor Blumer | Culture | July 29th, 2015
…Author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book to give reading in FargoElizabeth A. Fenn, author and professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is coming to Zandbroz Variety in downtown Fargo to give a reading and signing of her new book, “Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan…
by Stephen Anderson | Music | July 29th, 2015
…Surprise release of “Star Wars” finds band at their loosest Have we our Great American Rock Band? Have we ever laid claim to such a thing? The Beatles, the Stones, Zep, all imports. Sure, we gave the world Elvis, but the solo thing doesn’t really apply here. The designation is…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | July 29th, 2015
…Kristina Goolsby and Ashley York’s documentary “Tig” is a warmhearted paean to the gifted comic whose own health struggles and personal losses led to the now legendary August 3, 2012 show at L.A.’s Largo. Tig Notaro opened with a declaration of her breast cancer diagnosis and proceeded to deliver a…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | July 29th, 2015
…One of the most popular and most-remade films dealing with journalists, the media, politicians and their relationships with newsworthy issues, began its life as a 1928 Broadway play by two former reporters. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur based the characters and events upon their own first-hand experiences at Chicago newspapers.The 1931…
by John Strand | Editorial | July 29th, 2015
…Welcome, Sabrina Hornung and Chris Hennen; a grateful send-off for Diane MillerWe’ve known for several months that HPR editor Diane Miller will be moving to the Twin Cities. We fully expect she’ll soar to new heights in her new environs.That said, it will be with full hearts as we wrap…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | July 29th, 2015
…North Dakota University System Chancellor Mark Hagerott has an opportunity to prove what sort of leader he will be. How he responds to it will be instructive, going a long way toward showing whether he has the mettle to lead what has proven to be an almost ungovernable collection of…
by Chris Hennen | News | July 29th, 2015
…Twin Cities animal rights group plans protestAfter reports surfaced that Walter Palmer, a Twin Cities-based dentist who is a North Dakota native, shot and killed a lion during a big game hunt in Zimbabwe, outrage took place around the world. A Twin Cities-based animal rights group planned to protest Palmer’s…