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by Chris Hennen | News | August 26th, 2015
…Beginning next week, High Plains Reader will have a new editor in Sabrina Hornung, as editor Diane Miller, who’s been affiliated with HPR since 2011, is officially departing this week. With the changes, we sought to get some insight into what to expect for the future of HPR with Sabrina…
by John Strand | Editorial | August 26th, 2015
…Our Opinion / What kind of North Dakota we envision will bear out in who we choose to be governorHPR leans left. That’s no secret. We like many aspects of what people call progressive movements. Yet, we also advocate for fiscal prudence.That said, it will not come as a surprise…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 26th, 2015
…Whatever happened to Wendell Berry’s adage about being downstream or upstream?As a farm kid I learned early that it’s always wise to stay upstream from the herd when they are near or in a creek on a hot day. When belly deep in water the tail always goes up when…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 26th, 2015
…Lovers of bad cinema will marvel at Blue Underground co-founder and veteran “making of” and bonus feature producer David Gregory’s anatomy of a train wreck “Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau.” Sharing war stories of the 1996 Marlon Brando/Val Kilmer debacle ultimately directed by…
by Chris Hennen | News | August 26th, 2015
…Each group will now program 24 hours on their own radio stationsChanges are coming to KNDS 96.3, the low power FM radio station that featured shared airtime between community members known as Radio Free Fargo and NDSU students who went by Thunder Radio. Now both groups will operate 24 hours…
by Särah Nour | Writer's Block | August 26th, 2015
…On Sunday, Aug. 30, Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s book tour for her memoir “The Senator Next Door” will be passing through Fargo, specifically at Barnes and Noble on 42nd Street SW.The reading and book signing will begin at 3:30 p.m. Soon after, Klobuchar will head out to Duluth for a reading…
by Krissy Ness | Beer Snob | August 26th, 2015
…In recent weeks Drekker Brewing Company has been kicking off their UnPillage Program with a special weekly happy hour. From 4-6 p.m. Monday through Friday one dollar from every pint is given to a local charity to help the community, and so far the turnout has been great! About two…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | August 26th, 2015
…North Dakota is generally a very transparent state, due in no small part to open records laws that are very simple and very broad.But there is room for improvement.Case in point, three years ago North Dakota State University women’s athletics director Lynn Dorn was suspended without pay for some sort…
by Phil Hunt | Music | August 26th, 2015
…I’ve tried hard to source it, but Google fails me. The first review I ever read of Andrew Wilkes-Krier’s massively successful debut album, “I Get Wet,” went on and on about how brazenly and cleverly dumb it was. Many reviews did at the time. I can’t remember if this was…
by Jack Dura | Writer's Block | August 26th, 2015
…One Book, One Community offers nonfiction read on N.D. oil issues Hundreds of miles away from the Bakken region, Fargo residents have had the chance to witness their state’s oil industry in visual art and performance theater this year. And now in literature. The public libraries of Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo…