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by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | July 3rd, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comWhile some Josephine Decker fans have decided to turn up their noses at her adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s 2010 YA novel “The Sky Is Everywhere,” I was delighted by the filmmaker’s impossibly beautiful, candy-colored vision of grief and love. Nelson prepared her own book for the screen, making…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 3rd, 2022
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com Christianity Has Fallen Off the CrossCorky and I have classified ourselves as faithful Christians for nearly ninety years, but we both have reached the point where a solid majority of “Christians” no longer seems to agree with the teachings of Jesus Christ. The good Christians who are…
by Sabrina Hornung | Best Bets | June 28th, 2022
…Monday, July 4, all dayUlland Park2401 47th Avenue Southhttps://www.gfsertoma.org/4th-of-july-celebrationGrand Forks hosts the biggest Independence Day bash in the region–and it’s an all-day affair. Come early for yard games, a watermelon feed, inflatables for the kiddos and a beer garden for the adults. Listen to live music all day and eat…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 28th, 2022
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com Remember: Eighty-Five Million Eligible Voters Did Not Vote in 2020There’s only one person in Washington who can convince young voters of every color to go to the polls in 2020 en masse and vote for Democrats at every level of government—and he’s not even a Democrat. He…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | June 25th, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comKate Dolan’s dark and atmospheric feature debut “You Are Not My Mother” lives at the fringes of folk horror, but the underlying family melodrama drives a story more interested in generational trauma than supernatural fairytale. In significant ways a thematic companion piece to Natalie Erika James’s intense “Relic,”…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | June 20th, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comTalia Osteen’s high-concept “Sex Appeal” is more charming than it has any right to be. Osteen’s feature directorial debut, which can be seen in the United States on Hulu, takes turns embracing formulaic conventions and subverting them. Fortunately, some chemistry between appealing lead Mika Abdalla (as brainiac Avery…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | June 20th, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comAlexandre O. Philippe has steadily become one of the most devoted contemporary chroniclers of our silver screen dreamworlds. The roots of the filmmaker’s movie obsessions can be found in “The People vs. George Lucas” and “Doc of the Dead,” but the major turning point was “78/52,” in which…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | June 19th, 2022
…Selected Summer EventsJuneJune 21 – Primitive Man 10 Year Anniversary Tour – The Aquarium, Fargo, NDJune 22-27 – Don’t Hug Me Musical – Stage West - POW/MIA Plaza, West Fargo, NDJune 22 – Ryan Necci and The Buffalo Gospel – Dempsey’s Public House, Fargo, NDJune 22- 23 – Annie Jr.…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 19th, 2022
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com A Most Important Question: How Do You Deprogram 52 Million Cult Members?In a recent poll, 52 million Trumplicans of the gun cult said they were willing to sacrifice several thousand U.S. children each year in order to keep the Second Amendment on the books. On top of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 19th, 2022
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com Congress: Why Does Australia Have Only One-Tenth the COVID Death Rate?The opening sentence about the COVID virus in “The Last Word” in THE WEEK magazine is shocking: “If the United States had the same death-rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved.” Other countries such…