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by HPR Staff | Best Bets | April 17th, 2019
…Friday, April 19, doors 8 p.m. show 9:30 p.m.Upstairs at SideStreet Bar and Grill, 404 4th Ave N, FargoYou know the songs and you love the characters, come on out and support Fifi Nyxx, Landon McKock, Miss Kitty and more as they take on your favorite Disney characters with performances…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | April 17th, 2019
…Thursday, April 18, 6-7 p.m.Plains Art Museum, 704 1st Ave. N, FargoArtist, feminist and, activist Cecelia Fire Thunder will discuss her groundbreaking work on wellness and Native American women’s issues, as well as her current doll making project for young women. She is leading a doll making workshop at the…
by Jim Fuglie | Last Word | April 17th, 2019
…It seems like the threats to North Dakota’s Badlands never cease. Let’s go back and revisit Wylie Bice. He’s the rogue, rich, rancher up in Dunn County, on the eastern edge of the Badlands, who’s built himself a private bridge on public land, without permission, over the Little Missouri State…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 17th, 2019
…Harmony Korine keeps a tight grip on his title as one of the most critic/critique-proof filmmakers of recent times with “The Beach Bum,” a sultry companion piece to 2012’s memorable “Spring Breakers.” Not without its own kind of middle-aged charm and a worldview to match, “The Beach Bum” is virtually…
by Gabrielle Hersch | Cinema | April 17th, 2019
…The 2019 Fargo Film Festival this February saw huge success, particularly with the appearance of Academy Award visual effects winner Richard Edlund, who received the festival’s Ted M. Larson award for his outstanding career. But Fargo’s wonderful accomplishment of hosting legendary filmmakers doesn’t end there.Yet another legend will grace the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 17th, 2019
…The Nordic ModelDr. Thea Hunter, a graduate of Columbia University and an adjunct professor of history at a number of elite colleges and universities, recently died at age 63 of extreme capitalism—and asthma—because of lack of health insurance and health care. She started her career at Western Connecticut State University…
by C.S. Hagen | News | April 17th, 2019
…BISMARCK – The day a U.S. Congressional House election subcommittee traveled to Standing Rock to hear Native leaders speak about being disenfranchised from voting in North Dakota, a state senator posted to social media saying they should abstain if they don’t like it. “If they are denouncing our voting then they…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cocktail Showdown | April 10th, 2019
…Well shiver me timbers. After weeks of sampling some of the finest drinks in F-M from more bars than we could shake a belaying pin at, the results of High Plains Reader’s 6th Annual Cocktail Showdown are in! For nine weeks, three judges were presented with a shot or after-dinner drink (depending…
by John Showalter | Theatre | April 10th, 2019
…Countless examples can be found throughout the history of great art that was only recognized as such after the life of the artist that created it. Such is true of Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen.” While its reception during his lifetime could be arguably be referred to as ‘lukewarm’, it went…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | April 10th, 2019
…It allows us to spread information, allow half-truths and falsities. It serves as a platform for us to display our triumphs, tragedies, hardships and cat pictures. Yes, I’m rhapsodizing about social media. Depending upon how you adjust your settings social media could very well be our generation’s party line. Or…