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LIVE: Folk/Punk Music Festival in Downtown Fargo

FARGO — It’s the return of a musical mashup that mixes punk with folk. Bindle Fest V is coming to downtown Fargo Saturday. The mix of genres features more acoustic settings than you might expect from a traditional punk music performance, and allows musicians to include instruments like banjo, mandolin, horns, and washboard. The bands performing this weekend come from…

LIVE: A Place to Find Fellow FM Halloweenies

FARGO — A local Facebook group for fans of the Halloween holiday to find decorated homes, good locations for trick or treating, and share tips on how to build their own home haunts is blowing up. The group “FM Area Halloween Trickers and Treaters” was originally started as the personal page of local Halloween enthusiast Abby Haake. She opened it…

Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies at 31 in Argentina hotel fall

FILE – Liam Payne, of musical group One Direction, performs at Nickelodeon’s 25th annual Kids’ Choice Awards, March 31, 2012, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, was found dead after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, local officials said. Buenos Aires police said in a statement…

Popular Canadian YouTube Food Influencer To Feature West Fargo’s Thai Orchid On His Channel

Thai Orchid/FacebookWEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A popular YouTube star is featuring Thai Orchid of West Fargo in one of his upcoming videos. The 4th generation restaurant posting on social media that Joel Hanson picked Thai Orchid as one of only two stops he is reviewing on his trip to North Dakota. Hanson is a food influencer and Canada’s number…

LIVE: The Things That Go Bump in the Night

FARGO — They say it’s one of the biggest trick or treating opportunities in the region. But the real treat at “Boo at the Zoo” at Fargo’s Red River Zoo is probably meeting some of the most misunderstood wild creatures of the region. Creatures like Soupy the opossum, who shared the anchor desk on the Morning Show Wednesday. Opossums might…

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library To Send Free Books to Young Kids in North Fargo

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — FM Area Foundation and Fargo Rotary Club is reintroducing Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to north Fargo, the 58102 area. It provides free, high-quality books to kids from birth to age five. It was in the FM Metro until 2020 when United Way of Cass-Clay ended its partnership with the program. Travis Christopher with the Fargo Rotary…

LIVE: Halloween Kickoff Party and Scary Movie Season

FARGO — Movie fans are celebrating scary movie season with events for both adults and kids in the metro, starting with a Halloween Kickoff party this weekend at West Acres Marcus Theatres. They’re screening favorite Halloween slasher films all month long, as well as kid-friendly offerings like “Hocus Pocus” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Saturday, the West Acres Theatres is…

Fans Can Be “Amazed” When They See Lonestar At Shooting Star Casino

MAHNOMEN, Minn. (KVRR) — What about Lonestar? You can hear all of the country band’s biggest hits when they hit the stage at Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen on Friday, December 20. Ticket prices run between $26 and $52. They go on sale on Monday, October 21 online at starcasino.com. Categories: Entertainment, Minnesota News, The Buzz Tags: lonestar, SHOOTING STAR…