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by HPR Contributor | Music | February 28th, 2018
…By Howard Hardeehhardee21@gmail.comJosh Ritter says songs are like hiccups. He’ll be doing something mundane and a tune will pop into his head involuntarily, as if due to some reflexive bodily function. But he doesn’t question where the melody came from or how it appeared: he just makes sure to capture…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 28th, 2018
…The deafening sounds of silenceWhat have you heard from the Trumpistan gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, and members of The Best Congress Money Can Buy since the Parkland shooting?I thought of Simon and Garfunkel’s great song “The Sounds of Silence” while waiting for responses. Lines in the third stanza…
by C.S. Hagen | News | February 26th, 2018
…FARGO – Christopher L. Thumb is a quiet boy, enjoys throwing a football with his siblings, listens to powwow music. New to Fargo after moving from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation at 15, he entered his freshman year at North High School last August.First week, the bullying began.…
by C.S. Hagen | News | February 23rd, 2018
…FARGO – Water sizzles against scorched stones piled in a shallow pit center of Fargo’s only Indigenous sweat lodge. Faces gleam briefly before the glow fades, and the Native songs begin. Packed side by side, Anishinaabe, Spirit Lake, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, and a few wasi’chu – or white people…
by C.S. Hagen | News | February 21st, 2018
…FARGO – To hundreds of Fargo’s inmates, a C-Note-sized bail might as well be a million dollars. Unaffordable.On any given day the city’s law enforcement brings those who break the law to jail. It’s their job. Some offenders are violent. Some are entitled to a phone call and an orange…
by Jack Stenerson | Music | February 21st, 2018
…The New Direction had no shows booked in January 2012 so one of our co-founders, Charley Wang, decided to put together the First New Direction Fest out of complete necessity. He reached out to 18 local bands to play our little basement over three nights. It went well enough for…
by Chuck Solly | Culture | February 21st, 2018
…One of the most annoying things on the web is advertising that interrupts what you are doing. I’m talking about the pop-up ads, the videos that start playing as soon as your browser opens the page. You get the idea.Well, it seems that Google’s Chrome browser is fixing some of…
by John Showalter | Arts | February 21st, 2018
…In my tenure at the High Plains Reader, I have devoted a lot of column inches to promoting the local music scene of the Red River Valley. However, I would be doing an injustice if I didn’t also bring your attention to another important facet of Fargo-Moorhead’s artistic culture: the…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | February 21st, 2018
…By Gary Olsonolsong@moravian.edu Radical: Derived from the Latin radix, which literally means the root or base. In political terms it means penetrating beyond conventional explanations and getting at the root cause of a problem.In her book Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag puzzled over people who still express surprise about…
by Chris Larson | Cocktail Showdown | February 21st, 2018
…Although the temperatures were sub zero last Sunday, the crowd and competitors were certainly on fire at the Holiday Inn in Fargo for the 5th Annual Bartenders Battle.This event has become a highlight of the year for the service industry and this year’s Tiki theme was without a doubt well…