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by Greg Carlson | Cinema | February 28th, 2018
…Considerably less accessible than his directorial debut “Ex Machina,” veteran writer Alex Garland’s “Annihilation” very loosely adapts Jeff VanderMeer’s novel into a demanding thought experiment bound to frustrate viewers counting on some of the trailer’s promise and premise.As multiple critics have pointed out, the new film owes a thematic debt…
by Logan Macrae | Wellness | February 28th, 2018
…If you were like me when you were a child, you had a rock collection. I never thought in my adult life that I would be starting another one, or for that matter that I would travel back home to my parent’s house and go to the basement in search…
by HPR Contributor | Music | February 28th, 2018
…By Howard Hardeehhardee21@gmail.comJosh Ritter says songs are like hiccups. He’ll be doing something mundane and a tune will pop into his head involuntarily, as if due to some reflexive bodily function. But he doesn’t question where the melody came from or how it appeared: he just makes sure to capture…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 28th, 2018
…The deafening sounds of silenceWhat have you heard from the Trumpistan gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, and members of The Best Congress Money Can Buy since the Parkland shooting?I thought of Simon and Garfunkel’s great song “The Sounds of Silence” while waiting for responses. Lines in the third stanza…
by C.S. Hagen | News | February 26th, 2018
…FARGO – Christopher L. Thumb is a quiet boy, enjoys throwing a football with his siblings, listens to powwow music. New to Fargo after moving from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation at 15, he entered his freshman year at North High School last August.First week, the bullying began.…
by C.S. Hagen | News | February 23rd, 2018
…FARGO – Water sizzles against scorched stones piled in a shallow pit center of Fargo’s only Indigenous sweat lodge. Faces gleam briefly before the glow fades, and the Native songs begin. Packed side by side, Anishinaabe, Spirit Lake, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, and a few wasi’chu – or white people…
by C.S. Hagen | News | February 21st, 2018
…FARGO – To hundreds of Fargo’s inmates, a C-Note-sized bail might as well be a million dollars. Unaffordable.On any given day the city’s law enforcement brings those who break the law to jail. It’s their job. Some offenders are violent. Some are entitled to a phone call and an orange…
by Jack Stenerson | Music | February 21st, 2018
…The New Direction had no shows booked in January 2012 so one of our co-founders, Charley Wang, decided to put together the First New Direction Fest out of complete necessity. He reached out to 18 local bands to play our little basement over three nights. It went well enough for…
by Chuck Solly | Culture | February 21st, 2018
…One of the most annoying things on the web is advertising that interrupts what you are doing. I’m talking about the pop-up ads, the videos that start playing as soon as your browser opens the page. You get the idea.Well, it seems that Google’s Chrome browser is fixing some of…
by John Showalter | Arts | February 21st, 2018
…In my tenure at the High Plains Reader, I have devoted a lot of column inches to promoting the local music scene of the Red River Valley. However, I would be doing an injustice if I didn’t also bring your attention to another important facet of Fargo-Moorhead’s artistic culture: the…