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by Sabrina Hornung | Last Word | May 18th, 2021
…by Annie Prafckehttps://www.facebook.com/annie.prafcke20 May 2021Recently, C.S. Hagen wrote an article for The Forum about anti-Asian hate in Fargo-Moorhead, amidst the horrific Atlanta shooting, in which six of the eight victims were Asian women. In an interview for the piece, I shared incidents of racially-motivated harassment I experienced in Fargo as…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | May 17th, 2021
…by Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com16 May 2021Another movie long-delayed by the pandemic, “Saint Maud” can finally be viewed on Amazon Prime and several other online outlets (the world premiere took place a lifetime ago at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival). Writer-director Rose Glass makes a convincing feature debut with an unsettling…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 16th, 2021
…by Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comWhat Hath Trump Wrought?Dan Rather at 89 has been directly involved with the history of the United—now Divided—United States of America for one-third of its life. He spoke truth to power at all levels of government. He asked penetrating questions to dog catchers and…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | May 10th, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com07 May 2021Hard to say whether non-cinephiles will be interested enough to watch a feature-length documentary about a movie critic, but Rob Garver’s “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael” is a worthwhile biography of a fascinating life led with purpose and conviction. Of course, the film-obsessed…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 10th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmai.comWhat Are Our Biophysical and Religious Limits?Scientists are studying the effects of the world’s ever-expanding economic growth, increases in population, consumption of our natural resources, and our limited ability to decrease or store our waste. To describe the studies they use the inclusive term “collapseology.” A report from…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 3rd, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com29 April 2021As tantalizing subject matter goes, the topic of Marilyn Agrelo’s “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” is as much a slam dunk as Morgan Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Even though the 107-minute documentary sticks mainly to the contents of Michael Davis’s excellent…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 3rd, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.com30 April 2021 Oliver, David, and Madame Defarge Knew About Economic InequalityCharles Dickens wrote about real history, not fake, in his novels. In Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities and ten others,he wrote about debtor’s prisons, workhouses for the young,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 25th, 2021
…By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.com 24 April 2021The Longest Civil War in History: Yankees vs. Planters The American Civil War actually started in 1619 when 20 slaves were brought to the shores of New England. By 1860 there were four million slaving in our economy. Our first eight presidents were slave…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | April 25th, 2021
…Fantasy and Reality in Ben Hozie’s ‘PVT Chat’By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.com23 April 2021Talented hyphenate Ben Hozie breaks through with “PVT Chat,” an audacious and exciting low-budget, NYC indie sure to generate equal measures of interest and controversy for its onscreen depictions of graphic masturbation. Hozie, the guitarist and vocalist of Bodega,…