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by HPR Staff | Best Bets | February 26th, 2020
…Saturday, February 29, 7-10 pmFargo Theatre, 314 N Broadway, FargoLadysmith Black Mambazo has been charming audiences for over 50 years. South Africa’s Five Time Grammy Award winners, known worldwide for their uplifting a cappella vocal harmonies, and their vocal work on Paul Simon’s Graceland album amog other feats. Original members…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | February 26th, 2020
…Saturday, February 29, 5:30-9 pmThe Lodeon Community Center, 311 1st Ave E, West FargoShine up your dancing shoes and hit the dance floor for a good cause and learn some new moves. Dance lessons will be provided by area dance organizations. Live music provided by Short Notice. Proceeds will be…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | February 26th, 2020
…Step #8. Stand Out “Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | February 26th, 2020
…by Kris Gruberperriex1@gmail.comThe Tristate Transgender Support Summit is a conference and marketplace with speakers, workshops, and vendors. The Trans Support Gala takes place on Saturday, February 28, at the Radisson Hotel in Fargo. High Plains Reader spoke to the Vice President of Tri-State, Rebel Marie, about the Summit and Gala.HIGH…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | February 26th, 2020
…by Zach Nerpelzachnerpel@gmail.comThe battle against contentment rages in 2020. The acts of caring for one’s health and finding peace in doom seem to sap the mind of interesting motivations. You find your days melding into each other, not in the fugue of depression, but in hapless uneventfulness. Looking forward to…
by HPR Contributor | Editorial | February 26th, 2020
…by Gary Olsonolsong@moravian.edu No one knows how much abuse and humiliation the Sanders faction is willing to endure to remain in the bosom of the corporate political beast.— Glen Ford, Black Agenda ReportFirst, it’s my sense that the predator class and its collaborators all-out effort to smash Bernie Sanders is…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | February 26th, 2020
…“Goodnight Mommy” filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala continue to carve up chills, thrills, and nightmares in “The Lodge,” a Sundance 2019 favorite finally receiving the theatrical release it rightfully deserves. With an unrelentingly oppressive atmosphere in the claustrophobically framed location of the title, “The Lodge” is perfect slow-burn arthouse…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | February 26th, 2020
…The North Dakota Winter Show in Valley City will celebrate its 83rd year in 2020. Attendees can anticipate a variety of agricultural and heritage programming from rodeos to dances to keynote speakers and vendors but this year organizers of the event have a couple of new tricks up their sleeves.…
by HPR Contributor | Humor | February 26th, 2020
…by Kris Gruberperriex1@gmail.comAdam Quesnell’s last show at The Cellar beneath the Front Street Taproom in Fargo was in early September of 2018. He was embarking on a seminal move from Minneapolis to LA. As always, his comedy was razor sharp, perfectly timed, both nuanced and broad. Local comedy fans can…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 26th, 2020
…One Day In The Life Of A News JunkieA column or two ago I used Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel “One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich” to paint a picture of Stalin’s reign of terror in the 1940s. He served an eight-year sentence in the slave-labor gulags across Russia for…