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by HPR Contributor | Theatre | February 5th, 2020
…by Erin Hemme Frostliefroslie@cord.eduNearly everyone has a roommate horror story. Maybe it’s the college roommate who refused to do dishes. Or the one who promised to pay rent but didn’t. Or a roommate’s friend of a friend who asked to stay for a weekend, left three months later, and didn’t…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | February 5th, 2020
…The telling one-two punch of a January release date dump and a rocky production history spells serious trouble for Floria Sigismondi’s “The Turning,” a supernatural horror based on Henry James’ timeless “The Turn of the Screw.” A one-time “passion project” championed by no less a light than Steven Spielberg, the…
by Jim Fuglie | Last Word | February 5th, 2020
…The Little Missouri State Scenic River valley north of Medora. photo by Bill KingsburyI have written before about this stupid, harebrained, boneheaded, senseless, vacuous, selfish, destructive, egomaniacal, (insert your own adjective here), idea of the Billings County Commissioners to put a bridge over the Little Missouri State Scenic River a…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 5th, 2020
…President Roosevelt: “The Malefactors of Great Wealth Are Against Worker Rights”He also believed that the Declaration of Independence declared that “the rights of the worker to a living wage, to reasonable hours of labor, to decent working and living conditions, and to freedom of thought and speech and industrial representation—-in…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | February 5th, 2020
…Art by Sabrina HornungThere’s something to be said about a halftime show that overshadows the big game itself, and that absolutely warms my heart—mainly because full disclosure: I honestly don’t care about football. Apparently the show was seen as inappropriate to the “Concerned Carols” of the world. The…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | January 30th, 2020
…In this part of the world there’s something about a good western that resonates among us. Whether we grew up watching them with our families or whether we developed a love for the genre as an individual. This especially rang true for Dan Bielinski who grew up watching John Wayne…
by HPR Contributor | Music | January 29th, 2020
…by Gerardo Gomezgomezg@uni.eduDrummer and Fargo native Ross Pederson always saw himself following in his father’s footsteps as a musician. He currently finds himself in New York City playing with many world class professional musicians and groups, including the Grammy-award winning group The Manhattan Transfer. I had the pleasure of talking…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | January 29th, 2020
…by Jill Finkelsonjsfinkelson99@gmail.comA new grant from the Department of Corrections and Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota allows for victims of crime to receive help for PTSD and related mental health issues. HPR arched out to Terri Burns of LSS about the new grant and how it’s working to bridge…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | January 29th, 2020
…In January of 2019, Chinonye Chukwu made history as the first black woman to win the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival. “Clemency,” which Chukwu also wrote, is only the filmmaker’s second feature, but it unfolds with the confidence of a veteran at…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | January 29th, 2020
…“On January 16, 1979, the self-styled ‘King of Kings’ (the Shah of Iran) was…forced to seek exile abroad. To understand the reason for this unexpected dénouement, it is necessary to note that the Shah was essentially a western creation. Once before he had been forced into exile, in 1953, when…