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by HPR Staff | Best Bets | December 9th, 2015
…Thursday, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m.Fargo Theatre, 314 Broadway N., FargoThe classic film will be shown just in time for Christmas. The Frank Capra drama stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up on life until an angel intervenes and seeks to show Stewart how many lives…
by Jack Dura | Theatre | December 9th, 2015
…Jess Jung feels little to no pressure to live up to the classic “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” The 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor sees its stage adaption take shape at North Dakota State’s Walsh Studio this weekend, the second half of its two-week run. Starring six students in…
by Chris Hennen | Editorial | December 9th, 2015
…60 Minutes piece reiterates need for answersThis past weekend, 60 Minutes delved into the murky world of confidential informants, highlighted by the death of one of our own Andrew Sadek, the NDSCS student from Wahpeton who was more than likely murdered because of his work as a confidential informant. Sadek…
by Chris Hennen | News | December 9th, 2015
…Is Fargo’s liquor license code too complicated? Is it time for change? A new task force examines what changes could be made.A task force in Fargo is looking at methods to reform the city’s complex liquor license code. Currently there are many different types of liquor licenses, letter coded from…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | December 9th, 2015
…“See no Science, Hear no Science, Speak No Science” - Wealthy Republican Oligarchs before Party fundraisers at their Exclusive Club for Know-Nothings.“I’m not a scientist either, but I can use my brain, and I can talk to one.” - Former Republican Governor Charlie Crist [D-FL], July 26, 2014“It seems clear…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | December 9th, 2015
…It may not yet seem like a North Dakota winter, but as winter weather sets in with its cold and snow it will be easier to relate to the incidents depicted in films like the 1924 British documentary “The Epic of Everest.”Various cable TV channels these days frequently broadcast stories…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | December 4th, 2015
…Belinda Sallin’s documentary “Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World” captures the Swiss artist near the end of his interesting life. Giger, who rocketed to international fame and Oscar glory for the iconic designs he contributed to Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” died in 2014 at the age of 74. Sallin, given full access…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 4th, 2015
…Of Toilets, Planned Parenthood, and Life-Saving Cell ResearchNeil deGrasse Tyson, perhaps our most articulate spokesman of what science is, outlines what it is in two relatively short sentences in his Huffington Post blog: “Science distinguishes itself from all other branches of human pursuit by its power to probe and understand…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | December 3rd, 2015
…To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law,” columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote in 2002. “Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”This is as true in 2015 as it was in 2002, if not more so, and it’s not a great situation…
by HPR Contributor | Arts | December 3rd, 2015
…By David McCoyAfter years of providing a one-stop repository for art slides and projections for all students and their departments, Minnesota State University Moorhead’s slide library will be closing its doors in 2016. To commemorate the medium and history of visual projection and the decades of work archiving, categorizing and…