BISMARCK — A world-famous photographer from North Dakota is inviting you to help him make photography history next month. Bismarck-based Shane Balkowitsch is doing a demonstration of his historic wet-plate photography technique at the Ellendale Opera House next month. It’s a labor-intensive technique that dates back to the Civil War. It involves developing the image on a plate of glass…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — New students at Concordia College are already making a difference in the community. During orientation week, students are helping out with the annual Hands for Change outreach event. One of the locations is at Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Moorhead. They are spread out at 24 different service projects in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Classes…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo native is cast to play the lead role in the North American tour of “Mean Girls.” Natalie Shaw will play “Cady Heron,” who was played by Lindsay Lohan in the 2004 movie. Shaw graduated from Davies High School in 2015 and from the University of Minnesota in 2019. Growing up in Fargo, she was…
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (KVRR) — Everywhere you look, it’s Barbie, Barbie, Barbie and soon that will be at Mall of America in Bloomington. The Malibu Barbie Cafe is opening this September. An exact date has not been announced. The expereience previously sold out at New York and Chicago locations. The café will allow guests to experience “the ultimate form of Barbiecore…
FARGO — Pride Week is in full bloom in the F-M metro area, and the Jasper Hotel in downtown Fargo is taking that quite literally. The big Pride Parade is on Sunday afternoon in Moorhead, instead of Fargo, for the first time ever. When all the glitter-throwing, music and revelry at the parade wraps up, you’re invited to come on…
FARGO — From corndogs to mini doughnuts, the Fargo Food Truck Festival has it all. For the second year in a row the festival is at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, which gives the festival extra space for all of that tasty food. Throughout the weekend you can enjoy around twenty vendors. Some of the food trucks are returning and…
FARGO — She has a job a lot of folks would love to have, could they but figure out how to get it: Darley Newman gets to travel and get paid to talk about it on TV. And now, the host of the PBS show “Travels with Darley is in Fargo and profiling the many treasures of Eastern North Dakota….
FARGO — They were once on the wrong side of the law. Now, they’re raising money to protect some of the metro’s lawmen — the ones who sacrificed themselves to save their city from an apparent mass shooting attack on July 14th. The F5 Project is a Fargo-based nonprofit that helps get jobs,. homes, and healthy transitions into regular life…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Here’s a special treat for all you classical music fans out there. That is the New York Kammermusiker and its back in our region for the group’s 16th annual Winds of Change Concert Series. The nonprofit ensemble reintroduces instruments and music of the double-reed band to modern audiences. A North Dakota native and director behind the…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) — People heading to WE Fest’s 40th anniversary in Detroit Lakes encountered jam packed traffic, stopped at times according to social media posts, and filled lots on day one. The three day country music festival features headliners Morgan Wallen, Kane Brown and Brad Paisley and so many other artists. Not only is there live music but…
