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by Diane Miller | Music | September 19th, 2013
…HPR chats with Sam Beam of Iron & WineIn 2004, Sam Beam released what would become one of the most influential folk albums of the 21st century to date.That special album is Iron and Wine’s “Our Endless Numbered Days.” It features gritty primitive tracks like “Teeth in the Grass,” genuine…
by Diane Miller | Editorial | September 19th, 2013
…Last Monday, Buzzfeed.com published a list of tweeters who made racist comments about this year’s Miss America winner, Nina Davuluri, an Indian-American.The list included the names and links to the accounts of each of the offenders. After clicking through every account posted on this Buzzfeed page, we found nearly all…
by Amber Morgan | Arts | August 22nd, 2013
…She’s just 25 years old and already runs her own company.It’s literally a one-woman operation.Ashley Nicole Dedin owns and operates AENDEE (pronounced “A-N-D”), a shop and studio that carries her own line of upcycled clothing and accessories for anyone to buy.As of right now, Dedin does all her own sewing,…
by Diane Miller | Music | August 22nd, 2013
…Fargo folk rockers Riesage are releasing their very first album, “Anon,” on cassette tape this August 31 at The Aquarium.“Anon,” a five-song EP, includes years-old songs written by lead vocalist/guitarist Mike Barnum, who originally played music and toured as a solo artist. It wasn’t until early 2010 that he started…
by Diane Miller | Music | August 22nd, 2013
…76-year-old Andre Williams to perform at The AquariumAndre Williams is sort of mysterious legend. The 76-year-old Chicago/Detroit R&B musician has written songs for Stevie Wonder, Ike Turner and even Parliament-Funkadelic. He’s even had a few mega-hits – “Bacon Fat” and “Jail Bait” – among the hip R&B crowd in the…
by Diane Miller | Wellness | August 15th, 2013
…The very best thing to do with beef is, if you want to include it in your routine, it should be in relatively small portions, well cooked and then you’d put it on a little plate, cut it up into small morsels. And then you’d put it on to your…
by Raul Gomez | All About Food | August 15th, 2013
…By J Earl MillerNearly 10 years ago I wrote a goodbye letter to Ralph’s Corner that got published in the High Plains Reader. I talked about all the unique people that entered its doors and about the music. It was a very heartfelt letter about how I cared about a…
by Bryce Haugen | Writer's Block | August 15th, 2013
…He’s one of those celebrities that is simultaneously an absolute superstar among public radio listeners and pretty anonymous to the rest of the population.Ira Glass, host of the Chicago Public Media (distributed to more than 500 stations via Public Radio International) program This American Life, will bring his soothing, forever-young…
by Diane Miller | Culture | August 8th, 2013
…Wahpeton family visits The White House for LGBT pride eventLove is what I saw in Valerie and Diane’s letter from North Dakota, who’ve been together for 37 years. Their son, Madison, is here, 14. They told me that when Madison was little—he’s not little now, by the way.…
by Diane Miller | Music | August 8th, 2013
…Moorhead singer/actor Nina Grollman kindly interviewed with the High Plains Reader on the day before her big move out to New York City to study acting at Juilliard.Find out what it was like for her to audition for one of the most prestigious music schools in the country, how she…