Art provides look into life during good, bad times
At a recent Healthy Living Through Art class, children and adults of both genders sat around tables in the Episopal church basement with the following assignment: Make a picture of yourself on a bad day and on a good day.Grand Forks Herald, 05/18/2012
Minnesota director brings 'Memorial Day' to the big screen
If Memorial Day the holiday is about remembering, then “Memorial Day” the movie is about why it’s so hard for so many veterans to share their war-time memories. Director Sam Fischer's Minnesota-made movie is showing now through May 29 at River City Cinema in East Grand Forks.Grand Forks Herald, 05/16/2012
Bike-a-holics speak out
May is National Bike Month, an opportunity to celebrate the unique power of the bicycle and the many reasons we ride, whether it’s to get to work or school, to save money or time, to preserve our health and the environment or to explore the world.Grand Forks Herald, 05/14/2012
Readers: What’s going on in your town in Summer 2012?
If your organization or community has a special event planned for Summer 2012, something fun that our readers might want to attend, we’d like to know about it. So we’re asking you, our readers, to let us know what you have planned for this summer so we can share it with Herald readers by putting it on a Memorial Day weekend calendar and out daily “What’s Up” calendar.Grand Forks Herald, 05/11/2012
John C. Reilly and musical friends, including Grand Forks native Tom Brosseau, to perform at Empire in June
John C. Reilly may be known best as an actor in movies such as “We Need to Talk about Kevin” opposite Tilda Swenson and “Step Brothers,” co-starring Will Ferrell. But fans will remember, too, his singing role in “Chicago,” for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Now Reilly, as the musician John C. Reilly & Friends, is coming to Grand Forks to perform with Becky Stark and Grand Forks’ own Tom Brosseau. The show will be June 16 at the Empire Arts Center, and tickets will go on sale May 11, available through www.Tickets300.com. Prices are $22 in advance and $25 the day of the show.Grand Forks Herald, 05/05/2012
INDIA INK: From rockers to doctors
After three years of playing med school talent shows, local bars and the annual Springfest event in University Park, the UND med students/musicians of India Ink are getting ready for their final performances.Grand Forks Herald, 05/04/2012
Grand Forks teacher recalls when Dick Clark picked her as ‘Miss Photogenic’
Meeting someone famous and admired can be an exciting, once-in-a-lifetime moment. But for Grand Forks teacher Sandy Espe, her teenage encounter with entertainment icon Dick Clark was life-changing. In 1980, Clark picked Espe’s photo as Miss Photogenic from the nine contestants in the Miss Buffalo (N.D.) contest. For Espe — who’d grown up with a front tooth discolored from a childhood mishap on the monkey bars and who wore glasses she describes as “Coke bottle lenses” — it was an amazing moment of affirmation.Grand Forks Herald, 04/21/2012
Mysteries around America
Minnesotan William Kent Krueger, author of “Northwest Angle” and other Cork O’Connor mysteries, and three other Atria Books authors are embarking on the Great Mystery Bus Tour that will arrive Monday in Minnesota.Grand Forks Herald, 04/19/2012
UND's ‘My Generation’: Theater’s new world of song, dance and Twitter
Musical pop concert opens Tuesday at UND Burtness TheatreForget “South Pacific” and “Oklahoma.” When it came to picking a spring musical at UND, theater students balked at doing a traditional musical. “My Generation,” the show they’re doing instead, isn’t a musical at all, said director and theater instructor Emily Cherry. Featuring songs by today’s headlining entertainers — Lady Gaga, LMFAO, Adele and more — it’s really more of a pop concert than a musical, said Cherry, assistant professor in the UND Department of Theatre Arts.
Grand Forks Herald, 04/15/2012
Low profile singer/songwriter Fred Eaglesmith to perform Tuesday night in Grafton
Singer/songwriter Fred Eaglesmith doesn’t care much for posers. That’s the story behind his song “Johnny Cash” from his latest album, “6 Volts,” the one critics are describing with words such as “plain, simple and powerful” and “our most played disk.” He and his band, the Traveling Steam Show, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Marketplace on Eighth in Grafton.Grand Forks Herald, 04/14/2012
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