FARGO — Are you haunted by the fact we’ve only got thirty days until Halloween? If you’re ready to get spooky season started right now, then Haunted Downtown Fargo tours has you covered. They launched this past weekend, and some of the spots are already sold out. That’s why tour organizers William Balsley and Deanna Dahlstad have added four additional…
MOORHEAD — Don’t get scared, but artists in the metro are already starting to get ready for Halloween. That’s why the Rourke Art Gallery in Moorhead is now open for submissions for their seventh annual “Art Ghoullery.” This year’s theme is “Cults, Cabals and Covens,” once again dedicated to exploring the dark and mysterious side of art. Artists are invited…
FARGO — With his eerie, skull-like face, huge nostrils that let you see clear through one side of his face to the other, and strange, featherless head, you’d think Steve the turkey vulture would send schoolkids screaming out the door every time he drops by an area classroom. Instead, says Chahinkapa Zoo curator Tom Schmaltz, the kids love him. “They’re…
FARGO — Dracula is coming back to life this Halloween season on the stage at NDSU. And it may be for the last time… if the women of this play have anything to say about it. This October, they’re performing the original stage play “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy.” It’s got the traditional hallmarks of the Dracula story based on…
They are by turns delicious and deadly, innocent and intoxicating, remarkable and wholly ordinary. They are the plants and mushrooms spreading silently around us, and the wrong encounter with one could cost your child, your pet, your elderly loved one, even you, your life. So now, a Facebook group 300-plus experts strong has sprung up, with members all around the…
MOORHEAD — The name Al Gersbach is instantaneously familiar to generation after generation of Concordia college alums. Going back decades, you can find his name on program after program at the Comstock Theatre. He’s been billed as a spiritual adviser for “Godspell,” a hematologist on a slasher play, even once doing a turn as a feather boa. So who is…
MOORHEAD — Fans of the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Show” are getting to “time warp” to a new decade in music, thanks to a new production of the stage show launching soon at Concordia College. The show is in rehearsals now and its run is set for early November at the Comstock Theatre in Moorhead. The show is the…
FARGO — By now you’ve probably been to a few Halloween parties, or maybe you’re throwing one and dreading cleaning the house before the guests come over. So this Ghoul Morning, Emily and Adam decided to help you out. They’re building a Halloween prop that cleans up for you. Of course, it does leave a lot of fairy dust along…
FARGO — Being bad never felt so good as it will this Friday at the Fargo Theatre. That’s when Grindflicks Horrorfest takes over the town and fans of the worst of cinema and the best of times are taking over the screen. Billed as “a double feature of schlock and shock,” this year’s festival features bad-movie icon Greg Sestero, who’s…
It’s one of the region’s longest-running scary stories. The murky depths of Devils Lake in North Dakota may be hiding a monster. And the source may surprise you. It’s been variously referred to as a sea serpent, or a sort of Loch Ness Monster of the Upper Midwest. But it turns out, according to the original legend, neither of those…
