Author: Emily Welker

Ask Danny: Ceiling Fans

Get them into your energy-saving rotation.

Spring is on the way, and with it, relief from our high monthly heating bills. However, cooling costs are just around the corner. Home improvement expert Danny Lipford lets us in on the secret of how ceiling fans can help turn your high energy costs around in this week’s Ask Danny. Categories: Morning – Features

LIVE: Shift Happens & PolyAware

Why a little-known polyamory group could provide surprising insight into our own relationships.

It’s one of the least well-understood subgroups in love relationships, and in fact, it’s only been recognized a few years as a social phenomenon. So it might surprise you that a group devoted to polyamory — or relationships that feature consensual non-monogamy — is alive and well and operating right here in the Red River Valley. It’s a group called…

Fargo Film Festival: Rosewood Ledge

A lake house, a model, a photographer, and a Coen brothers veteran.

It’s one of the latest offerings of the independent film scene, and it’s here in Fargo — along with its director and stars. Rosewood Ledge is the story of a model and her photographer boyfriend who visit a lake house for a photoshoot and encounter a strange request from the homeowner who lives there. It stars Kristin Rudrud, who you’ll likely…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Batman

He needs a home. And a sidekick.

Dark, mysterious, muscular, with an intense and arresting gaze like his namesake, Batman the cat has a similarly sad backstory. The handsome black shorthair was found all alone in the world by rescue workers who brought him in for fostering through Diamond in the Ruff pet rescue. And now, he’s unmasking himself long enough to visit live in studio with…

LIVE: Yay! for the YEA! Winner

We're fit to be tied over this girl's brilliant idea for a new business.

Shark Tank is going to the dogs. The Chamber’s Young Entrepreneurs’ Academy Investor Panel Shark Tank has a winner this morning, and she’s headed to Rochester, New York for the national competition. Winner Ivy Mastrud is the CEO of new business BowWow Bo-ties. That is, when she’s not at her day job, which is being a 7th grader at Ben…

App of the Week: Outpatient

An insider tip for helping the senior in your life.

We are super lucky here in the upper Midwest — we’ve got more seniors per capita than practically any other region in the country. That means we have the resources of their maturity, their wisdom, their ability to spoil our kids’ appetites with candy before dinnertime. But having a big aging senior population can also come with some challenges. Francie…

LIVE: Transgender Cultural Competency Training

Hearing each other without hurting each other.

Transgender issues used to be all but impossible to talk about. Now, they’re at the forefront of a lot of issues and news stories. But that hasn’t necessarily made the conversation about — and with — transgender folks any easier for many of us, whether we’re having them in the workplace, around the neighborhood or with our friends and families….

Thinking Green: Powered by Crank

The power of crankiness, revealed.

It’s time for another thinking green this morning – and that means it’s time for us to get cranky. But not because we know you’ve been wasting energy around the home. Danny Lipford has the news about saving energy costs, saving the planet and maybe even saving yourself some serious problems during a natural disaster or other emergency in this…

Ask Danny: Cleaning Stainless Steel

Get ready for spring with some spring cleaning.

The melt is finally on. And underneath all that snow that’s piled up out there, there lurks a lot of mud, garbage and grime waiting to be exposed. In the meantime, you can make your indoors spotless while you wait for the snow to finish melting. Home improvement expert Danny Lipford shows us how to have stainless steel without a…

Tech Tip Today: Snap 3D

Stay entertained while you're stuck indoors.

What with today’s storm shutting down the interstate and making roads outside town darn near impossible to get anywhere on, we’re facing a lot of downtime indoors trying to keep ourselves from going stir crazy. Fortunately – the Morning Show is here to help. Francie Black has a way to turn the movies on your smartphone into a 3D experience…