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by Ben Haugmo | Music | March 15th, 2017
…Fargo-Moorhead’s artistic output shouldn’t be underestimated. From visual art, to film, to music, there’s plenty of creative work being produced in the area every year. Yet with so much content being made, it’s easy to overlook some of the talent that comes from Fargo-Moorhead.Free Truman is one group that many…
by Tom Bixby | Editorial | March 9th, 2017
…Liz Gelardi of the Denver Channel was In the kitchen of the Comal Restaurant, talking to Silvia Hernandez, who was singing as she made tostadas.Hernandez is inspired by her mother’s recipes, but she receives restaurant training at Comal. ‘“It’s not books, it’s not reading, you have to do it every…
by Jacinta Macheel Zens | Music | March 8th, 2017
…Sims, from Minneapolis hip hop super crew Doomtree, will be performing with Sean Anonymous at the Aquarium on March 11. HPR was able to talk to both of them about their relationship, the upcoming Fargo show and what they both have been up to musically. High Plains Reader: Last September,…
by John Showalter | Music | March 8th, 2017
…Those who have been following the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra during the 2016-2017 season realize that their concerts have been evoking a more personal, intimate feeling. Whether it was the “Intimate Tango” of this January, the “Orchestra and Guitar” of November 2016, or “The Great Romantics” of September 2016, the Masterworks…
by John Showalter | News | March 8th, 2017
…Cormorant is one of many small lakeside townships in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes. With a population barely exceeding one thousand, the town may seem rather unremarkable if it weren’t for the beautiful view of the lake. There is something else that sets Cormorant apart from other small towns…
by Seng Phengdouangdeth | Culture | March 8th, 2017
…The telling of urban legends has become a sort of modern folklore among people of any given time. Though the stories are usually fictional, they are surprisingly often inspired by a sliver of truth of something that might have happened in the past.Perhaps at one time, some of these stories…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 8th, 2017
…Is it really high noon all over the country?The inconvenient truth of unintended consequences has struck again. The National Rifle Association, under the leadership of top-gun Wayne LaPierre, once described by New York newspapers as “the craziest man on earth,” has been pushing for every kind of gun-carrying scheme, with…
by Chris Larson | Beer Snob | March 8th, 2017
…Last week I wrote about the beer cocktail and there was one specific beer cocktail that was left out of the discussion completely, with intent. The history of mixing beer and soda, lemonade or fruit juice (usually a half and half mix) dates back to the early 1900s in Germany…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | March 8th, 2017
…The genre, or as some say the style, of film noir, which deals with crime and various other unsavory activities usually happening at night, developed in Hollywood around 1940. Its focus on mostly antiheroic protagonists and a pervasive sense of doom separates it from standard crime or mystery-thrillers, consciously or…
by C.S. Hagen | News | March 8th, 2017
…CANNON BALL - Bakken oil could be flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline within a week, but Standing Rock still hopes for a legal miracle as the United Nations condemns what it calls widespread discrimination and North Dakota’s militarized response. As Standing Rock’s legal options diminish, an injunction filed by…