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by Ryan Janke | Arts | May 1st, 2019
…The Plains Art Museum is ready to take you back in time – or forward, if you prefer – for their 23rd annual Spring Gala. The theme for this year’s event, which takes place on Friday, May 3, is Time Machine.The Spring Gala is the museum’s biggest fundraising event every…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 1st, 2019
…A true-to-life setting sparks interest in “The Mustang,” a solid man-and-his-horse story from first-time feature director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Anchored by a livewire performance from the compelling Matthias Schoenaerts, the movie uses the Wild Horse Inmate Program, already the nonfiction subject of John Zaritsky’s “The Wild Horse Redemption” and Andrew…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | May 1st, 2019
…“Dostoevsky’s nightmare vision of the surrender of inner freedom for untroubled security was…a predecessor of the literary genre of dystopia, represented by such works as…Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and George Orwell’s 1984. The motif of deception—the Grand Inquisitor’s pretense to speak in the name of the true Christ—is closer…
by C.S. Hagen | News | May 1st, 2019
…BISMARCK – ALEC’s fingerprints are smeared across more than a handful of preemptive state strikes – now laws – from the 2019 Sixty-sixth Legislative Session of North Dakota. Each bill was designed to eradicate smaller governments’ power, and more than one copied sample proposals from the American Legislative Exchange Council,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Last Word | May 1st, 2019
…Glen Hornung passed away peacefully at Ave Maria Village in Jamestown with family by his side on Sunday, April 28.He was born in Woodworth, North Dakota on May 15, 1932 to Joe and Esther (Gaub) Hornung, the first of six children. He attended Gerber No. 2, a one-room schoolhouse in…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 1st, 2019
…The rising tide of Kardashian philosophyI have followed the life of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar since he was 18-year-old Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor covering black civil rights protests for his school newspaper, as a senior at a New York City high school. At 7’2”, he helped his high school team win 71 straight basketball…
by John Strand | Editorial | May 1st, 2019
…Now that North Dakota’s biennial legislative session is over, we can all breathe out a big sigh of relief. But that’s not to say there won’t be lingering indigestion.In retrospect, and from the vantage point of those on the outside looking in, it’s truly unfortunate to see such a disproportionate…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | May 1st, 2019
…By Winona LaDuke winonaladuke1@gmail.comIt’s twenty years since Alex White Plume planted his first hemp crop on Wounded Knee Creek, here on the Pine Ridge reservation. Spring’s come after a winter buried in epic snow storms, and the grass is greener than ever. It’s time to plant. It’s 2019, and the…
by Ryan Janke | Arts | May 1st, 2019
…Minnesota State University Moorhead held their grand opening of Picturing Nam: U.S. Military Photography of the Vietnam War last Thursday at the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. The exhibition is the final installment of the Minnesota Remembers Vietnam initiative from MSUM and will run through May 25.Picturing Nam will…
by John Strand | Editorial | April 25th, 2019
…The High Plains Reader looks different this week. It feels different, too. We’re curious what you think.This is the second time we’ve shifted to a glossy, trimmed and stitched cover on our weekly newspaper. What you get in the end is something more akin to a magazine. Design-wise, Raul Gomez…