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by HPR Contributor | Culture | January 23rd, 2019
…By Jacinta Zensjacinta.zens@gmail.comTrying to make a living in the arts can be immensely challenging, frustrating, and intimidating. We as artists spend an enormous amount of time, energy, and money dedicating our lives to learning about our craft and discovering our voice for our chosen medium. This process is not all…
by John Showalter | Music | January 23rd, 2019
…Remember the old schoolyard taunt, “You fight like a girl”? That sort of sentiment seems rather dated now, as in both popular culture and real life we are becoming increasingly reminded that women are perfectly capable of kicking some proverbial rear ends. But even though it is only in recent…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | January 23rd, 2019
…Another stunning work of perfectly placed ellipses and calculated restraint, Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” is a film filled with images as iconic and austere as its blunt title. A haunting experience of history by suggestion, the movie traces a tragic romance across years and landscapes, relying as heavily on Lukasz…
by HPR Contributor | Outdoors | January 23rd, 2019
…By Nataly Routledgenatalyroutledge@googlemail.com Negative numbers have now taken hold of the Fargo-Moorhead area weather. Residents wary of the cold may be prepared to hunker down and avoid the outdoors until grass reappears. Those looking to weather the weather, however, will have a chance to enjoy outdoor festivities this coming weekend. The…
by Ryan Janke | All About Food | January 23rd, 2019
…Fargo has a new Mediterranean restaurant downtown and it is worth your while to head on over and check it out. Ishtar Mediterranean Cuisine opened at the beginning of the year and are serving up some delicious dishes, including Middle Eastern appetizers, gyros, tikkas, kababs, and desserts.Located at 68 N.…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 23rd, 2019
…Should Washington Evaluate Policies With Guts Or Brains?A Republican state senator the other day said; “I depend on my gut to make major decisions.” He evidently is following the decision-making practices of his Great leader, King Donald Trump, who claims; “I’ve got a gut. And it thinks better than some…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | January 23rd, 2019
…“And now what is better, that our fatherland should be a Republican or a monarchical state?...Ask the rich for the solution, and they will love an aristocracy best, ask the people and they prefer a democracy; only the kings prefer a monarchy. How then is it possible that almost the…
by C.S. Hagen | News | January 22nd, 2019
…BISMARCK – The state is trying to throw its weight behind President Donald Trump’s campaign promise by proposing a resolution committing the Sixty-sixth Legislative Assembly to support Trump’s wall. House Concurrent Resolution 3025 urges Congress and the President to fund construction of a wall and border control impediments along with…
by HPR Contributor | Music | January 16th, 2019
…By Ryan Jankeryan.janke78@gmail.comCelebration of Women and Their Music kicks off this Thursday at the Spirit Room in Fargo, and Nina Grollman will be back in town to light up the stage with a brand-new sound. High Plains Reader caught up with Grollman to check and see what she’s been up…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | January 16th, 2019
…By Gary Olsonolsong@moravian.edu"People spend so much time mocking Trump or waiting for him to be impeached. And the danger with this kind of obsession with a single person is that you don’t see the system that produced him.”— Arunhati RoyNational Security Adviser John Bolton is criss-crossing the Middle East to…