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by C.S. Hagen | News | February 15th, 2017
…CANNON BALL - Standing Rock’s fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline has all the ingredients of legend, with only the ending remaining be be told. Centuries past, bards would be tuning their lutes, preparing lyrics, in fact, modern singers such as Neil Young, Dave Matthews, the Black Eyed Peas, Trevor…
by Jim Fuglie | Last Word | February 15th, 2017
…There was a big dust-up about 5 years ago over the North Dakota State Land Board’s decision to offer, for lease, the right to drill for oil on the west side of one of southwest North Dakota’s major landmarks, Bullion Butte. The butte and some of the acreage around it…
by Chuck Solly | Culture | February 15th, 2017
…Actually my wife does most of the shopping, but I do find some really good deals on Amazon. You haven’t been there? You should give it a try. Amazon is the world’s largest big box store. I do mean big box! There are millions of products to choose from. A…
by Faye Seidler | Culture | February 15th, 2017
…On February 10th, a majority of House Republicans rejected the Anti-Discrimination Bill that would make it illegal to discriminate on basis of sexuality or gender identity. Their reasons for rejection were very similar to the reasons they rejected similar bills in 2009, 2013, and 2015. They perceived this bill as…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 15th, 2017
…The game is riggedLast year 25 American hedge fund managers, whose income tax rate is about half of what their secretaries pay, made enough billions to fully pay the salaries of over 450,000 teachers. Thirsty and hungry at Super Bowl 51 this year? A glass of beer was $12 and…
by Ashley Murtha | Music | February 15th, 2017
…You sit in the Fargo Theatre talking with your neighbor when the lights go out. You turn towards the stage and watch as the first performer walks to the middle and prepares to start their performance. Finally you are immersed in beautiful music from some of the best female performers…
by Brittney Goodman | Theatre | February 15th, 2017
…The MSUM School of Performing Arts version of “The Full Monty” is an Americanized pop-rock musical stage version adapted from the 1997 British film of the same name. And they are bringing it to local audiences February 15 – 18 at the Hansen Theatre. All shows start at 7:30 p.m…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | February 15th, 2017
…Veteran filmmaker Barak Goodman’s “Oklahoma City” is a timely and sobering historical document with unsettling connections to the ugly “alt right” rhetoric touching the increasingly tense national political climate.Following a Sundance Film Festival world premiere, the feature debuted on PBS’ “American Experience” February 7, 2017. In the film, Goodman uses…
by Tom Bixby | Editorial | February 15th, 2017
…They met in Minneapolis, at the bus station. They were both from Ghana, and both had been refused asylum in the U.S. They decided to go to Canada, and took a bus to Grand Forks.Razak Iyal, 35, says only that he had political and other problems. Seidu Mohammed, 24, was…
by Jack Stenerson | Music | February 15th, 2017
…Off With Their Heads have been making waves in the underground punk scene ever since their formation in 2002 and after their signing to Epitaph Records in 2010 have been slowly gaining worldwide attention. We had the chance to do a quick Q&A with singer and founding member Ryan Young…