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by HPR Staff | Best Bets | December 21st, 2016
…Friday, January 6, 7-11:30pmSanctuary Events Center, 670 4th Ave. N, FargoSan Francisco based hip hop artist Aesop Rock could be called a storyteller—or even a poet, known for his clever wordplay. His lyrics have been published in the “New York Times”, and Yale University’s Anthology of Rap in late 2010.…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | December 21st, 2016
…Thursday, Dec. 22, noon314 N Broadway, FargoA holiday tradition made possible by our friends at The Fargo Theatre and the American Theatre Organ Society. Lance Johnson will be be playing our holiday favorites while tickling the ivories of the iconic fully restored Wurlitzer organ. Admission is free but a non…
by Anytime Jones | Last Word | December 21st, 2016
…In 2013, George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of an unarmed 17-year-old boy. A heartbroken Alicia Garza took to Facebook to write a love letter to her dismayed friends reading “Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. Black lives matter.” Her words resonated with other…
by C.S. Hagen | News | December 21st, 2016
…FARGO – The time-honored Fourth Estate, government’s watchdog for centuries, faces an enemy more brutal than any dictator.Fake news.Governments, police departments, and corporations all spread their versions of truth, propaganda, that many in the Peace Garden State accept as irrefutable truth. Their reports must be scrutinized at least as much…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | December 21st, 2016
…“This my prayer: Civil war fattening on men’s ruin shall not thunder in our city. Let not the dry dust that drinks the black blood of citizens through passion for revenge and bloodshed for bloodshed be given our state to prey upon.” - Aeschylus“…the anarchical tendency of our worship of…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | December 21st, 2016
…Partially avoiding the sophomore slump, renaissance man Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals” is less rewarding and accomplished than “A Single Man.” Adapted by the director from Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony and Susan,” “Nocturnal Animals” is a stylishly designed noir that alternates between the terror of a West Texas road nightmare…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 21st, 2016
…What kinds of freedom do you want with your religion?Here we go again. The Telescope Media Group in St. Cloud, Minn. wants to get into the wedding photography business—but does not want to video, film, or photograph same-sex weddings. In other words, they want to have the religious freedom to…
by John Strand | Editorial | December 21st, 2016
…Time flies. It was 20 years ago December 26 that the High Plains Reader changed ownership. The two-plus year old bi-weekly in Grand Forks evolved into what you knowHPR to be today, two decades later.We owe a debt of gratitude to Founders Ian Swanson, Peter Ryan, Len Schmid, Mark Boswell…
by Brittney Goodman | Culture | December 21st, 2016
…photo by Ginny PickProject Unpack: Telling Stories, Creating Community is wrapping up its one-year program with a retrospective exhibit at the Rourke Art Museum. Project Unpack is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as a project to initiate dialogues in the Fargo-Moorhead and North Dakota communities about…
by Ben Haugmo | All About Food | December 21st, 2016
…Photo by Sabrina HornungWith winter finally beginning to kick in, some people might want to escape to the refuge of memory. Recollections of warmer, sweeter times, of climbing a ladder to pluck fruit from the trees of the family farm’s apple grove, provide a brief respite from winter’s barren chill.…