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by Sabrina Hornung | All About Food | August 17th, 2022
…By Rick Gion rickgion@gmail.comIt’s Mick’s Office vs. Vic’s Lounge for best beef over in spud town. How will these fierce competitors stack up, and which will come out on top?Because it’s legendary, let’s start with Mick’s. On weekends, this college bar is home to many Concordia and Minnesota State University…
by Sabrina Hornung | Last Word | August 17th, 2022
…By Stewart Rogers Stewart_Rogers2001@yahoo.comOn August 15, 1969, a half million long-haired freaky people gathered in the mud for the Woodstock Music Festival in Upstate New York. For some, the event symbolized the worst of American youth – dirty, drug-crazed dropouts, listening to the devil’s music, obsessed with free love, unwilling…
by Sabrina Hornung | Writer's Block | August 17th, 2022
…By Waylon Hedegaard retiringwithcats@gmail.comI have just read a book that affected me unlike anything in years…perhaps ever. Riveted, I tackled it in less than eighteen hours.Being from North Dakota, one could hardly avoid hearing about Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land. However, as with…
by Sabrina Hornung | News | August 17th, 2022
…By Laura Simmonslaurasimmons2025@u.northwestern.eduThe former North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculturehas still not received the Red River Trust documentation she requested in late June.Sarah Vogelsaid she can’t determine if Gates’purchase of North Dakota land through the Red River Trustis legal under the Anti-Corporate Farming Lawwithout seeing proper documentation. This comes about a…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | August 17th, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comAudrey Diwan’s “Happening,” which premiered at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival and screened in the Spotlight section of Sundance earlier this year, feels contemporary and immediate despite being set in 1963. The story of Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) – a promising student of literature seeking an illegal abortion…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | August 17th, 2022
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comIn addition to boasting one of the year’s best titles, Jordan Peele’s mind- and genre-bending mash-up “Nope” is big and bold and willing to take risks, even if those wild gambits don’t always pay dividends. The filmmaker’s third feature as writer/producer/director pokes and prods at all kinds of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | August 17th, 2022
…By Michael M. Millermichael.miller@ndsu.eduThe “Northwest Blade,” Eureka, SD, published a wonderful article in August 2020, “Granddaughter keeps grandmother’s precious chamomile seeds,” by Cindy Schumacher. Cindy wrote about the experiences of Judy Hooff, a resident of Eureka, founded in 1887, once called the “Breadbasket of the World” for its many wheat…
by Sabrina Hornung | Music | August 17th, 2022
…By Chris Larson cjlarson75@gmail.comDuring a short break in their Wheels of Soul Tour with Los Lobos and the Gabe Dixon Band, I had a chance to speak with Susan Tedeschi, a vocalist, songwriter, and guitar player in the Tedeschi Trucks Band, which also features her husband and guitar legend Derek…
by Sabrina Hornung | Music | August 17th, 2022
…By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comFargo artist signs Nashville recording contractTo say the 2020s got off to a rough start might be the understatement of the century, but Fargo musician Gina Powers managed to find her own Cinderella story after a visit to Nashville that resulted in her signing a record deal with…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | August 17th, 2022
…By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comOn August 20, the Spirit Room in Downtown Fargo will be hosting an opening reception for Shane Balkowitsch’s exhibition, “Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective,” from 5-7pm. Now, you may have caught his exhibit at the Rourke in 2018 and you may have spotted his…