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by Brittney Goodman | Culture | December 7th, 2016
…The SantaCon Pub Crawl for the Gladys Ray Shelter and Veterans Drop-In Center returns to Downtown Fargo Saturday, December 10, beginning at 1pm with a kick-off at Rooter’s Bar. But this is not your average pub crawl, as participants are (1) in costume; (2) in the holiday spirit; and (3)…
by Christopher P. Jacobs | Cinema | December 7th, 2016
…Three Stooges fans probably already know that all 190 of their Columbia shorts are on DVD in a multi-disc collection and in eight individual volumes. Although remastered in HD, sadly none are yet on Blu-ray. That will change next month when the two 1953 shorts they filmed in 3-D will…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | December 7th, 2016
…Master filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s “Certain Women,” based on stories by Maile Meloy, shares the quiet fortunes and misfortunes of three protagonists and the friends, family, and strangers in orbit around them. Set in Montana, the film moves at the director’s deliberately measured pace, a technique that suits Reichardt’s alliance with…
by Ben Haugmo | All About Food | December 7th, 2016
…For many of us, the holidays bring with them distinctive memories of traditional Scandinavian dishes. Fond recollections exist of lefse spread with butter and sugar, or sweet krumkake patterned with distinctive designs, that crumble to pieces in one’s mouth. Wouldn’t it be nice to learn how to create those treats…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | December 7th, 2016
…“When I used to go to Ralph’s, people would say that it used to be a speakeasy—which is half true,” says Markus Krueger, Programming Director at the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, “it was two separate speakeasies, and every building on that block was a speakeasy,…
by Chris Larson | Beer Snob | December 7th, 2016
…Canadians were first introduced to whisky by Scottish immigrants. It is often referred to as “rye whisky” by Canadians, although unlike American “rye whiskey,” there is no requirement of a proportion of rye in the mash bill. The only requirements of Canadian whisky are that it be aged for at…
by Ben Haugmo | Culture | December 7th, 2016
…Run a Google image search for “diversity in video games,” and the first result you’re likely to get is a collage of several 20-30 year old white guys, usually with a little scruff on their face. From the Assassin’s Creed to the Call of Duty, there’s a lot of homogenization…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 7th, 2016
…Things to considerIn this age of the disappearing middle-class and the greatest income inequality in our history, I see the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is sponsoring a fund drive called KeepThem Ruby, to repair and preserve Minnesota’s own Judy Garland’s leather, sequined, and glass-beaded slippers from that epic…
by Faye Seidler | Culture | December 7th, 2016
…There were a number of people asking me why our public plans in North Dakota don’t cover transgender surgery. The easy answer to this is that they don’t legally have to, but I feel it is more important to understand the history that led to there being no coverage. Specifically,…
by John Showalter | Theatre | December 7th, 2016
…As anyone who has lived in Fargo for any period of time knows, we are at precious little risk of not having the proverbial “White Christmas.” If anything, we have a surplus of the white fluffy stuff throughout the winter. Those times that that’s not the case are generally a…