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by Brittney Goodman | Culture | June 22nd, 2017
…Newzad Brifki’s journey to America began in Kurdistan and led him through a refugee camp in Turkey and eventually to Fargo-Moorhead. Currently, this Moorhead resident is focusing on work with the organization he created, the Kurdish Community of America, and publicizing his new book My Journey to America: A Kurdish…
by C.S. Hagen | News | June 22nd, 2017
…cshagen@hpr1.comBISMARCK - The morning after law enforcement cleared the “Treaty Camp” on October 27, 2016, hundreds of activists defending Native American treaty rights, water rights, and land rights, lined up north of three smoldering vehicles. Fifty yards away, construction trucks set the first cement blocks in a line, forming the…
by C.S. Hagen | News | June 22nd, 2017
…cshagen@hpr1.comBISMARCK - Former DAPL security employee turned whistleblower, Kourtni Dockter, is in hiding. Threats from “concerned citizens” have been made against her; a black truck with no license plates is surveilling her parents’ house.“They have threatened me, claiming that I’m a junkie drug addict and they want to come beat…
by Dima Vitanova | News | June 21st, 2017
…What Monika Browne calls a bubble of magic floated to a burst at Valley City State University.Readying for a dent in state funds, whacked by diminished oil revenues and commodity prices last summer, the university resolved to gradually shed its theater minor as part of a budget reduction of 10…
by Dima Vitanova | News | June 21st, 2017
…Some decked in black jerseys, others in green, more than a dozen women skated on the Ralph Engelstad Arena of the University of North Dakota. Clutching sticks and chasing a puck on May 29, they practiced for the next hockey season.Focused on the game, little did the student athletes know…
by Chuck Solly | Culture | June 21st, 2017
…Well, blocking anyway…The new headline reads: “Google plans to clean up the web with Chrome ad blocker next year.” For those of you who have ever tried to read news stories on Google or many other news sources, you have run into multiple ads that vie for your attention. It…
by John Showalter | Music | June 21st, 2017
…Pursuing a hobby, much less a career in music is more difficult than just picking up an instrument. Though the passion may be there, the cost of equipment and lessons can be prohibitive.Of course this is something that Fargo-Moorhead rock star Nathan ‘Natanic’ Pehler, of Brutalur among other projects, realized…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | June 21st, 2017
…By Mrisha SharmaAn unusual bar is serving up biases and its patrons are sending their own biases right back.The bar is the Bias Bar, an interactive exhibit at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. It shares space on the first floor with Detours, an exhibition about people who find…
by Faye Seidler | Culture | June 21st, 2017
…The Community Uplift Program (CUP), a local nonprofit, is hosting a discussion about Transgender Healthcare at the Fargo-Moorhead Unitarian Universalist Church (121 9th St S Fargo), June 27th, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. This event is open to the public and will provide water, coffee, snacks to those who attend.I’ll be…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 21st, 2017
…From Homer’s Odyssey to Buddy Holly: The times they are a-changin’When Robert Zimmerman, born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, better known as Bob Dylan, won the Nobel Prize for Literature (worth almost a cool $1 million), he said, “When I received this Nobel Prize for literature, I got to…