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by John Strand | News | June 30th, 2015
…Whether a Moorhead hip-hop show shut down midstream Saturday night created a near riot situation is not clear.By all accounts, what is clear is that law enforcement were called to assist Days Inn management in stopping the rap show at its halfway point and just before two feature acts were…
by Chris Hennen | News | June 30th, 2015
…After the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states on Friday, this week U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson declared North Dakota’s gay marriage ban “unconstitutional and invalid” and ruled in favor of the plaintiffs who had challenged the ban.Following his ruling, HPR caught up with some of the…
by Diane Miller | Culture | June 24th, 2015
…Two WWII bomber aircrafts landed at the Fargo Air Museum this past Monday and will be available for rides and ground tours till Sunday.Commemorative Air Force: Airbase Arizona is flying its B-17 “Sentimental Journey” and B-25 “Maid in the Shade” planes across the country to preserve and showcase some of…
by Chris Hennen | Editorial | June 24th, 2015
…Recent stories have us worriedThe recent spate of violence in Fargo, including two murders, has many wondering just what is happening in our fine little city—which doesn’t seem so small any more. Just as HPR was going to press, I witnessed an unprovoked assault outside a downtown bar…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | June 24th, 2015
…By Fred KirschenmannMy family owns a farm near Medina, and we are now transitioning that operation to Steve Sund and his family. Our farm has always been, and will always remain, a family farm committed to serve the health of the land and the community.In my career I’ve had the…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | June 24th, 2015
…Straw Hat Players present “Cats”Thurs to Sat, June 25 to 27, 7:30 p.m.Hansen Theatre, MSUMMSUM’s summer theater troupe will perform one of the world’s most famous musicals, “Cats,” for its final performance of the year. This Andrew Lloyd Webber play is based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | June 24th, 2015
…A luminous Blythe Danner portrays one of the warmest and most inviting characters of her long career in “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” a quiet and seductive movie about the contours of friendship and the parameters of solitude. Danner’s Carol Petersen resists the entreaties of her trio of pals…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | June 24th, 2015
…The latest film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel “Far from the Madding Crowd” is currently winding down its limited theatrical run, which started May 1 in just ten theatres, expanded slightly over the next few weeks and is now back to a few hundred screens. It did manage to play…
by Marie Monson | News | June 24th, 2015
…In 2012, the first-ever TEDxFargo event drew just 100 people. Since then, the expected audience has grown about 20-fold. Organizers of this year’s TEDxFargo anticipate up to 2,000 attendees at the Fargo Civic Center July 23—by far the best turnout yet, according to TEDx PR representative Mark Staples.Greg…
by Rob Port | Say Anything | June 24th, 2015
…With the North Dakota Farmers Union having turned in over 22,000 petition signatures to refer the Legislature’s reforms to our state’s corporate farming ban to the June 2016 ballot voters will likely be debating this archaic law thoroughly in the coming months.Yet, already, the Farmers Union folks have a serious credibility…