Roommate Horror The Untold Truth About Rooming with Friends BY JESSICA COLBY This is an example of one roommate issue, but some are not as comical. (Courtesy of TBS.) Finishing your first year of college, you and your best friends dumped the dorms. The minute you sign the apartment lease 24/7 fun with friends…
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Creepin’ It Real in Downtown Fargo
Creepin’ It Real in Downtown Fargo Proper People Watching Practices for the Bar Scene BY ANDY WESTON When a drunk bar patron falls to the sidewalk does she make a sound? Of course she does and you’ll be there to witness all of it first-hand. It’s a Saturday night, there’s nothing to watch on TV…
Lakeside Tragedy
By Kaitlin Leither With summer fast approaching, many people in the Fargo-Moorhead area are making plans to visit the lakes. With its dark themes, Rachel Coyne’s novel through New Rivers Press, “The Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake” makes the concept of a lake visit about as comforting as the rainy spring weather. However, like…
Horses, Affairs, and Murder
By Kaitlin Leither New Rivers Press’ latest novel, “Horsefever” by Lee Hope, starts slow before finally building the suspense most readers will be looking for. If you’re not fond of horses, there’s some interest, but not much. In the long run, “Horsefever,” while not outstanding, is pretty interesting once readers get through the slow start….
Grading Five Downtown Bacon Cheeseburgers
Grading Five Downtown Bacon Cheeseburgers By Tyler Jensen Fargo and Moorhead have plenty of places to sell you a hamburger with bacon and cheese. But which burgers stand out either as very good or not worth the time and money? I went to five restaurants in the downtown area to check which bacon…
The Truth About Lies
By Kaitlin Leither Lies are a fact of life, whether we like it or not. From the child making excuses as to why the dishes are not clean to the bureaucrat swearing that all funds were accounted for, lies are everywhere. This is what makes Spencer Coffman’s book “A Guide to Deception” such a handy…
Only in Fargo
By Kaitlin Leither Marc de Celle’s “How Fargo of You” is going into reprint, this time through Ingram publishing company, and will now be available on a national scale in regions beyond the Midwest. Originally published in 2010, “How Fargo of You” tells the story of Marc de Celle, his wife Charlene, and his two…
Midwestern Poetry that’s Easy to Read
Julie Gard’s “Home Studies” has been nominated for the Minnesota Book Award in the poetry category. “Home Studies,” published by New Rivers Press in October 2015, follows Gard, her life partner and fellow poet Michelle Matthees, and their adopted daughter through their lives in the Midwest. At only 70 pages of text, it is a…
Coffee & Canvas: The non-alcoholic experience of Corks & Canvas
OPINION Samantha Rachuy, MSUM Public Relations Fargo, N.D. — In order to truly experience a Corks & Canvas event, you must set out on your adventure with a glass of wine in hand. The account that follows is based on my experience of the event with a friend who is under 21, hence the title…
Doing it Downtown 