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by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 4th, 2020
…Eliza Hittman’s Sundance favorite “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” which played in theaters for just three days before Focus Features pulled the film amidst the widespread and unprecedented coronavirus-related closures, will be made available on demand beginning April 3. According to Anne Thompson, the movie will cost $19.99 to rent for…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | March 29th, 2020
…Veteran sound editor and USC professor Midge Costin educates and entertains as the director of “Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound.” An engaging, entry-level crash course on the role of audio in motion picture storytelling, the film is a sibling to “Visions of Light,” “Side by Side,” and other…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 29th, 2020
…Fact: In 1979 We Had 19.5 Million Manufacturing Jobs; Today, 12 MillionThat’s just one of the startling statistics revealed in two books reviewed by Helen Epstein in the New York Review of Books. The titles indicate the subject: “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” by Anne Case and…
by John Strand | Editorial | March 18th, 2020
…Not long ago, we did not have Coronavirus or Covid-19 in our vocabulary. Now our worlds have been changed. And that change is not stopping anytime soon, it would appear.Most of us are in the same boat. Our businesses are in jeopardy. Our workers’ futures are uncertain as well. Our…
by Ryan Janke | News | March 18th, 2020
…COVID-19, or Coronavirus, has started to make its rounds in the United States. As of Tuesday, Mar. 17, three residents in North Dakota, 11 in South Dakota, and over 60 in Minnesota have been confirmed to have the disease. The numbers in our area are low, but the expectation is…
by Raul Gomez | News | March 18th, 2020
…We’re in uncharted territory. New school closing announcements are flying in every moment. And, it makes sense. Schools are like giant Petri dishes. A virus’s dream come true, tons of bodies to transmit and distribute itself to all corners.This, of course, comes with a heaping pile of additional challenges for…
by Raul Gomez | News | March 18th, 2020
…There are a lot of myths out there. People are scared, maybe they should be. How do we separate fact from fiction in the information age? Our administration says one thing, then another, and then an about face. It’s clear we need sober facts that can guide us through these…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | March 18th, 2020
…by Martin C. Fredricks IVmcfrediv@gmail.comCould this be the week supporters of President Donald J. Trump finally wake up and see his true colors?As late as Monday, March 9, Trump was trying to push off the threat of coronavirus, suggesting, for the millionth time, that it’s a “hoax.”“President Trump in an…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | March 18th, 2020
…Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus visited the Fargo Film Festival in 2002—the second year of the event—to introduce a screening of her Emmy and Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning, Oscar-nominated “The Farm: Angola, USA.” The supremely talented artist would go on to make many other nonfiction films of…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | March 18th, 2020
…by Sonja ThompsonDebra Ruh is the CEO and Founder of Ruh Global IMPACT, a consulting firm that strives to help clients amplify their impact and become disability inclusion leaders. She also serves as the Chair of the United Nations’ G3ict EmployAbility Task Force, which supports information and communication assistive technologies…