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by Granville Wood | All About Food | May 10th, 2015
…In the movie “Field of Dreams,” where Kevin Costner builds a ball park in the middle of his corn field, a voice comes out of nowhere saying “Go the distance.” And go he did, sticking to his dream and making a home field for a bunch of dead ball players.Going…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 10th, 2015
…Self-conscious, geeky coder Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) wins a contest to visit the sprawling, private compound of his boss Nathan (Oscar Isaac), a computer genius using his billions to pursue artificial intelligence in the form of an erotically charged machine named Ava (Alicia Vikander).Screenwriter/novelist Alex Garland makes his directorial debut…
by Granville Wood | Music | May 10th, 2015
…When Michael Poulsen sings, his distinctive voice and vocal range are like nothing you have heard from a heavy metal band before and probably never will. One of the reasons this heavy metal / rockabilly band are making a mark on the heavy metal /thrash band scene.A couple of months…
by Diane Miller | Music | May 9th, 2015
…Songwriter behind the number one hit “Eve of Destruction” to perform in FargoIt all started with a guitar lesson from Elvis Presley in 1958. Songwriter P.F. Sloan, who will perform in Fargo for the first time on May 16, was just 12 years old at the time. “He showed me…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | May 7th, 2015
…Earlier this year the Criterion Collection released Blu-ray editions of two Japanese classics from the 1960s: Yasujiro Ozu’s intimate family comedy-drama “An Autumn Afternoon” (1962) and Kihachi Okamoto’s samurai epic “The Sword of Doom” (1966).Both appear at first glance to revolve heavily around specific elements of Japanese culture and history,…
by Stephen Anderson | Music | May 7th, 2015
…In the four years since the release of My Morning Jacket’s last album, “Circuital,” bandleader Jim James stretched himself awfully thin. He lent himself fully to two collaborative tribute albums (the Dylan-indebted “Lost on the River” and the Guthrie-saluting “New Multitudes”), wrote, recorded and released an excellent solo debut and…
by HPR Contributor | Editorial | May 6th, 2015
…“[Bonanza farming/1873-1920] encouraged large scale agriculture in the Red River Valley of the North…The bonanzas relied on professional farm managers…[and] were worked by migrant workers ranging from as few as 15 to as many as 1,000 per farm,...[who] were divided into teams of five to twenty men under a supervisor…
by Jack Dura | Theatre | May 6th, 2015
…Summer is not even here yet, but NDSU Opera is already taking us there.The university opera company has “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” lined up for the stage, combining Shakespeare, opera and an enormous ensemble for one of NDSU Performing Arts’ last productions of 2014-2015. Cutting the story back a bit…
by Diane Miller | Editorial | May 6th, 2015
…As promised, here is the list of masterpiece songs as suggested by our readers and friends in response to my April 1 editorial, “The Masterpiece Challenge.”This is not a complete list. And it includes plenty of tunes that others would never dream of calling a masterpiece. We included every suggestion…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | May 6th, 2015
…Dear Mark Hagerott,Congratulations on your appointment as the next chancellor of the North Dakota University System. Your resume is impressive, and your military service in particular commends you.At $372,000 per year you will, when you take your position on July 1, be making more than our governor, lieutenant governor and…