“At this time of year everything in Portland is dead,” said Portland State University student and Oregon native Rob Duran. But his statement contradicts the landscape 15 Concordia students saw when stepping off the Amtrak train in Portland, Ore. “It was a lot warmer than Fargo-Moorhead,” sophomore John Stelter said. “There were green things that…
The energy in a rock concert is something that simply cannot be explained. It’s when you’re sitting in the nosebleeds, but you still feel like you’re in the front row. Everyone in the venue is connected, stranger-to-stranger, to everyone else for the few hours that the music allows. It’s something everyone should experience. There was…
The Fargo-Moorhead (FM) Symphony played at the NDSU Festival Concert Hall last Saturday and Sunday (September 29 & 30). The program was one of five in the Symphony’s Master Concert Series. The remaining four will be throughout the academic year with the next being on the 10th and 11th of November. The ensemble performed three…
The goal of most of today’s movies is to transport an audience elsewhere. Director John Hillcoat achieves this better than most in Lawless, starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, and Guy Pearce. Hillcoat strategically uses shots of Appalachian landscapes and rustic folk music to put the audience in 1920s Virginia. There’s something about the…