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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 28th, 2016
…The world is becoming a better place—but are we becoming a better people?The other night I watched James Billington of the Library of Congress award 82-year-old Willie Nelson the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. I am not a fan of country music, Willie’s main talent, but he…
by Jack Dura | Culture | January 28th, 2016
…Sites to see in these locales are the top five destinations as chosen by the New York Times in its article “52 Places to Go in 2016.” Theodore Roosevelt National Park of western North Dakota took the No. 5 spot, selected for its embodiment of conservation that President Theodore Roosevelt…
by Taylor Blumer | Culture | January 28th, 2016
…It’s a popularly held assumption that residents of the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo area have no choice but to suffer through an annual affliction: severe winter. However, locals here know that this is hardly the whole truth, and it’s high time to show that we embrace the cold rather than hide from…
by Brittney Goodman | All About Food | January 28th, 2016
…No two chilies are exactly alike – Is yours spicy? Smokey? Sweet? Chunky? Brothy? Beans or no beans – all are welcome to compete. This popular regional phenomena, the Coors Light Chili Cook-off, sponsored by Bergseth Brothers, is in its twenty-seventh year. Bars throughout the region are currently hosting contests,…
by HPR Contributor | Cocktail Showdown | January 27th, 2016
…by J. Earl MillerNow that the Cocktail Showdown has wrapped up this year, we needed to gather all of our scoring notes and information, to find out who will take part in this year’s Bartenders Battle. For those of you who are not familiar with the Bartenders Battle, it is…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | January 27th, 2016
…Thursday, Jan. 28 and Friday, Jan. 29MSUM Planetarium, 1104 7th Ave. S, MoorheadIn their third year, LaserFest offers pulsing beats, incredible imagery and dazzling laser light effects with music from over five decades. The show offers everything from rock, pop, metal and alternative. Tickets can be purchased online at the…
by HPR Staff | Best Bets | January 27th, 2016
…CThursday, Jan. 28, 5-7 p.m.Memorial Union Gallery, NDSU, 1401 Administration Ave., FargoAt the closing reception of the Hysterical Sublime exhibition, which features recent artwork from student artists examining our interaction with data in the contemporary world, a select group of artists will speak about their creative studies in photography and…
by HPR Contributor | Arts | January 27th, 2016
…By John ShowalterGenerally, when we think about how trees have been used throughout human history, a lot of the same purposes come to mind: building shelter amongst other things, fueling fires, and making paper. A lot of us probably think of big lumberyards full of 2X4s just waiting to be…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | January 27th, 2016
…What we have here is a failure to communicateIs the pen mightier than the app?Social media is saturated with links with pages and pages of lists. One of which included “words that need to die in 2016,” such as “bae,” “fleek,” “hashtag,” etc. With the advent of social media, are…
by Jamie Hutchinson | News | January 27th, 2016
…Loren Yellow Bird has a memory he won’t be forgetting any time soon. He was standing in the mountains of Alberta, surrounded by the cast and crew of a Hollywood film and having celebrated film actor Leonardo DiCaprio shout out to him for help after struggling with a line.This wasn’t…