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by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | July 13th, 2021
…By Alicia Underlee Nelson alicia@hpr1.comDowntown scored a new mural from The Greetings Tour, a project that aims to create a mural in the style of a vintage postcard in every U.S. state. The Downtown Neighborhood Association contacted muralist Victor Ving and photographer Lisa Beggs and helped secure the location on…
by Sabrina Hornung | HPR Abroad | July 13th, 2021
…By Amy Pipersubmit@hpr1.comLake Michigan sunsets are intoxicating in Ludington. The evening waves kiss the sugar-sand beaches at Stearns Park Beach. A visitor comments on the large number of people arriving to watch the sunset. “Yes, it’s the best free entertainment in town,” the local replies with a smile. “We also…
by Sabrina Hornung | All About Food | July 13th, 2021
…By Jon Waynejonwayneandthepain@gmail.com15 July 2021I first met TJ Edra in 2001 at cooking school in Moorhead. We hit it off immediately and became fast friends, then later roommates at a cool apartment in South Fargo. Most of those summers were spent doing BMX and skateboarding in our neighborhood near Island…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | July 12th, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com15 July 2021 The prerequisites for continued Marvel Cinematic Universe domination are met: a script balancing eye-popping action and emotionally-charged character development; a narrative that functions as a standalone entertainment but also plugs directly into the massive, always-expanding mainframe; an expert ensemble capable of playing both tongue-in-cheek metanarrative…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 11th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.con15 July 2021 Looking Backward: 1887 to Brave New World, 632 After Ford We currently have three billionaires spending billions to leave planet Earth. Jeff Bezos of Amazon, the richest man in the world, will soon take a ride on his Blue Origin New Shepherd rocket with a…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | July 7th, 2021
…by Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com08 July 2021Janicza Bravo’s “Zola”—stylized onscreen as “@Zola” or “@zola” depending on your favorite style guide—is the curious story by Aziah “Zola” Wells, candidly recounting a partly truthful and partly embellished autobiographical sex trafficking road trip odyssey she unloaded as a series of 148…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 4th, 2021
…by Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com08 July 2021 Miranda Was Wrong: We Are Terribly Short Of ‘Goodly Creatures’Before I attack God, Catholics, evangelical Christians, and Trumplicans, I’ve got to attack the Supreme Court. The Court voted 8-1 that a foul-mouthed bratty teenaged cheerleader, with parents who want be “friends” instead of parents, had…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | June 27th, 2021
…by Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com01 July 2021If the accolades bestowed on Ahmir Khalib “Questlove” Thompson’s directorial debut as feature documentary filmmaker are any indication, we are on the cusp of a fresh “Summer of Soul” in the hot months of 2021. Claiming both Grand Jury and Audience Award prizes following its premiere…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 27th, 2021
…by Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com01 July 2021 HecKKK, There’s No Racism in the Divided States of AmeriKa!Although I lived on Highway 27, four miles east of Little Falls, for my first 18 years, I didn’t learn until I was 89 that HW 27 actually was constructed on top of an Indian trail…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 20th, 2021
…by Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com24 June 2021 When Will Money Talk for the Very Last Time?I have never been a country music fan, but I have been a country “poet” fan for decades. As a vocalist, I have sung solos, in duets, trios, in male and mixed quartets, in madrigals, and in…