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by HPR Contributor | Last Word | November 24th, 2017
…By Gary Olson olsong@moravian.eduI’m writing this letter as the proud son of the working class. My father, who never attended college and was our family’s breadwinner, worked as a Greyhound Bus ticket seller, part-time mail carrier and grocery store stock boy. When he died of a sudden heart attack at…
by Sabrina Hornung | All About Food | November 24th, 2017
…The Stri-King Cafe and Lanes offers coffee, community, and bowlingPhoto credit: Sabrina HornungUpon entering Stri-King Lanes and Cafe, one is greeted with an air of nostalgia with its midcentury era red vinyl-topped stools lining the breakfast counter, wood paneled walls and no-nonsense decor. It’s reminiscent of the now rapidly disappearing…
by HPR Staff | Editorial | November 24th, 2017
…Our opinion: They’ve done it every year for decades and we salute them.If Thanksgiving isn’t our favorite holiday, it’s because we don’t think about it or don’t rank them; but we can’t think of a holiday we like more. It’s the reuniting, seeing family and others we haven’t seen in…
by Hee Han | Culture | November 24th, 2017
…Thanksgiving is around the corner and we give thanks for the blessing of the harvest. Everyone is getting ready for the Thanksgiving feast.After Thanksgiving, we can easily imagine the endless long lines in early morning for the best deals. Especially in the Fargo-Moorhead area, it does not sound fun at…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | November 24th, 2017
…Putting to good use his affinity for period detail, filmmaker Todd Haynes tackles Brian Selznick’s 639-page “Wonderstruck,” with a screenplay adapted by the author. Weaving together a pair of New York stories that take place half a century apart, Haynes exploits the most cinematic possibilities of Selznick’s visually inclined novel.…
by C.S. Hagen | News | November 21st, 2017
…Sophia Wilansky says she’s lucky she’s right handed. Since nearly losing her left arm from an exploding projectile on Backwater Bridge one year ago, cooking has become a tedious art. She can no longer be involved in circus acrobatics.Daily chores like carrying a purse by its strap, or lifting a…
by C.S. Hagen | News | November 20th, 2017
…LINCOLN, NEBRASKA – Nebraska regulators passed the $8 billion Keystone XL Pipeline project Monday morning.After leaking more than 210,000 barrels of crude oil from Keystone I into the South Dakota prairies, TransCanada, the company behind the 1,200-mile pipeline, was approved for building a second pipeline, the Keystone XL, in Nebraska.…
by C.S. Hagen | News | November 17th, 2017
…AMHERST, SOUTH DAKOTA – Four days before TransCanada anticipated obtaining permits for the Keystone XL project, the company’s older pipeline leaked, spilling more than 210,000 gallons of Canadian crude oil into the South Dakota plains.The spill occurred near the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe Reservation.“It’s not if pipelines leak, but when they…
by Särah Nour | Writer's Block | November 17th, 2017
…This Friday will be the last chance to take part in a poetry reading hosted by The Poetry Rag and the Drumconrath Brewing Company in Mapleton. Rag Talk has been held every Friday since October 20 and is free and open to the public.In addition to scheduled readers, there will…
by Faye Seidler | Culture | November 16th, 2017
…The Transgender Day of Remembrance memorializes the trans individuals who have lost their lives due to violence this year. It is a day where we read their names and remember them—not how they died, but how they lived. This is also a day of visibility for the trans community and…