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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 15th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comFebruary 18, 2021 Maybe the Prophet Down on Interstate 94 Was WrongAs a student of American literature, I have read some of Sinclair Lewis’s many books: Main Street, Babbit, Arrowsmith,Elmer Gantry, and It Can’t Happen Here come to mind. Born in Sauk Centre in 1885, Lewis was evidently…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | February 11th, 2021
…By Greg Carlson gregcarlson1@gmail.com 2/5/21 Rodney Ascher’s previous two nonfiction features, “Room 237” and “The Nightmare,” played out like the cinematic equivalent of staying up late with friends to swap scary stories, conspiracy theories, and the kind of half-remembered word-of-mouth urban legends that have only grown more potent in the internet…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | February 11th, 2021
…By Greg Carlson gregcarlson1@gmail.com 1/26/21Maite Alberdi’s “The Mole Agent” is currently enjoying some award season love, with late January recognition from the National Board of Review in the Foreign Language Film group and steady buzz as a possible feature documentary Oscar contender and/or inclusion in the International Feature category as…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | February 11th, 2021
…By Greg Carlson gregcarlson1@gmail.com 1/14/21Tucker Lucas works in media production for H2M in Fargo, North Dakota and is an ensemble member of Theatre B.Greg Carlson: What is your collecting philosophy?Tucker Lucas: I’ve been thinking a lot about this the past several months, as my collecting in general has spiked up…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 11th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comWhen the Free Market Gets Very Expensive for the Little GuyAbout 15 years ago we spent two winters in Sun City, Arizona when the right-wing Republican legislature was playing a child’s game of “King of the Hill,” passing all kinds of junk aberrant bills about abortion, sex, gender,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Last Word | February 10th, 2021
…By Faye Seidler fayeseidler@gmail.com Community Uplift Program Project Coordinator (701) 732-0228https://www.facebook.com/communityupliftprogram …
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 2nd, 2021
…By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.comAre We Heading for ‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble’?Shakespeare’s MacBeth is a play about chaos that results when a person in the human chain of being rises above his level of competence. In our society we call it the Peter Principle. We have just finished four years…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | January 23rd, 2021
…By John Strand jas@hpr1.com21 January 2021Like most of you, we are relieved to be past 2020. What a crazy year! Yet, the reality is we all have our hands full going forward and some in our community are struggling to survive. Just like us here at HPR. First we shut…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 20th, 2021
…By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.comThe Ku Klux Klan Don’t Wear Hoods AnymoreIn a December column I wrote the following: “We are in the middle of dangerous times. We are on a knife’s edge of losing ‘it’.” “‘It’ stands for country.” On January 13, the day the House impeached Donald J. Trump,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | January 20th, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comTalented hyphenate Emerald Fennell, the season two “Killing Eve” showrunner, unleashes one of the most audacious and provocative films of the year with “Promising Young Woman,” the writer-director-producer’s feature debut. A pitch-black commentary on the unrelenting and insidious misogyny that keeps a tight grip on the culture even…