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The Midnights will play at The Hub Bar in Grand Forks this coming Saturday! Proceeds and donations will go to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.Local upstarts Moguely Oake will get the ball rolling with their original tunes.Let's help our neighbors affected by the current floods! $2 at the door, plus whatever else you can give to the effort. If you can't attend, please consider

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http://www.themidnights.org/

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After my fiasco of not being able to find a nice place downtown for dinner on Saturday evening, we were saved by a SNAG dinner at Amazing Grains. We stopped into the Blues Fest in the Town Square after dinner, and were blown away by the quality of the event!The music was great (performance and sound quality-wise), and from what I could tell, the whole event was a well-attended, well-run, rousing

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I'm tired of cleaning up other people's dog crap from my lawn. I clean up after my dog, yet had to pick up several foreign deuces yesterday when I mowed.I had a bad day today, and I was in a foul mood to begin with, when I happened to see a woman walking her dog by my house during the middle of the day. I work from home, so I'm nearly always around. How unfortunate for this person.I watched as

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My band, The Midnights, has booked a last-minute show at The Hub Bar for Saturday night. We are working to secure an opening band, but we plan to go on around 10 or 10:30 pm.The address:The Hub Bar205 N 3rd StGrand Forks, ND 58203I don't know about a cover charge, but if there is one it should be no more than $2. This will be our first show in the area in around 6 months, so come on down and get

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My family and I were heading out of town last Friday, on our way to the Twin Cities, ethnic food, museums, World Market, and Trader Joe’s. Since we were leaving during breakfast hours, we decided that it would be the perfect time to try out the new Denny’s. The exterior of the building drives me nuts. The signs are off-center wherever they are mounted. It looks like the installer made a

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Sorry to anyone who made comments that were not posted. Somehow the comment moderation feature was turned on. That issue has been resolved, so go ahead, feel free to speak your mind.

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I was driving on Demers Ave. in GF, when I noticed a huge billboard informing minors that "It's Not Not OK" to drink. How are people going to take this campaign seriously when the sign, though its use of a double negative, is actually telling minors that it is, in fact, OK to drink alcohol?I wonder who comes up with this stuff, and how much of our tax money was wasted because of a pretty obvious

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The GF Herald has launched two new websites. DiscoverGrandForks.com is marketed to Canadians visiting our city, while GrandForks.com is a general site for residents and non-residents alike. There are plenty of mashups to help you find locations via Google Maps, an Event Calendar, a weather feed, and a currency converter.What else would you like to see on the pages? I was thinking about some sort

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I have had a few people ask me to post more often, so here 'tis. I've just been at a bit of a loss for words, which is something for me!I've had a nasty cold all week, and am just now starting to feel human again. I'm going to try to sleep tonight without cold meds. Let's hope it takes.I have a new 42" Panasonic plasma TV. The picture is just amazing!I'm also rebuilding my guitar amp, doing some

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Two posts in one day? It must be that extra cup of Sumatran I had this morning. I did throw in some high grade robusta, for that extra caffeine kick. Yup, that must be it!I drove by the site of the new Denny's today, and the ground has been broken. This location is just west of Wendy's on 32nd, in front of the Menards strip. I wonder how long it will take to erect the building. Not that I'm a

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We started to talk about coffee on the sushi thread, so here's a fresh, new thread for our favorite morning brew.I'm waiting on an order of 14 pounds of greens, but I'm just as excited to get the weird chicken t-shirt I ordered. Yes, I have a very patient wife.

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I'll be in DC for a week starting Thursday, and I plan to eat my body weight in sushi and Afghan kebobs. I really miss those foods the most. OK, Vietnamese, too. And Indian. Did I mention Ethiopian? A good churrascaria always satisfies, as well.*sigh*That is all.

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This past Saturday night my band played our first bar gig. We had played the NDMOA already, but that was a bit of a tough show for our first as a group, and my first in 8 years. It was fine, but we were certainly not in top form.Saturday night, however, was a different story entirely. We had a blast and played the way we knew we could. Sure, we made a few mistakes, but to play rock and roll the

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Yup, after a 10 year hiatus, I'm once again hopelessly flailing on the guitar whilst attempting to sing like a bird (read: crow).Maybe if you're (un)lucky you'll get to see me play around town. You just might not know it's me.BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!p.s. mattfacingsouth, shoot me an e-mail!

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Here's an opportunity for us to actually make a change for the better on a national scope. Senator Harkin (D-IA), along with Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), recently introduced a bill that would provide funding for medical schools, teaching hospitals, schools of public health, and departments of public health.The Preventive Medicine and Public Health Training Act seeks $43 million to help fund

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You sure took your sweet time getting here. What was the holdup? Did you make a wrong turn at Albuquerque? This has not been the best year so far. Waaaaaaaay too much sadness, right up through this past week. I'm hoping your warmth lightens our mood, lifts our spirits, and heals our hearts.

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EDIT: I got the scoop on Martinizing. They ARE NOT owned by C&R Cleaners, and never have been. They are part of a small cluster of Martinizing stores owned by a pediatrician (from Bismark, I think). EXCELLENT service? Not part of C&R? Owned by a baby doctor? All the more reasons to give them your business!Here's a place where you can recommend, or ask for a recommendation, for a service here in

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Since moving to North Dakota, I've gotten back into hockey. I used to see a lot of hockey back in NY (RPI and Union were the big locals). My wife likes hockey as well, but probably not as much as me. She went to Colgate U., a small school with a big hockey team, and she saw her fair share, including the 1990 team that lost to Wisconsin for the national championship.However, the attention hockey

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This is going to be free advertisement for Tom and Maria (congrats on the new baby!) of Sweet Marias Home Coffee Roasting Supplies. This is a "mom and pop" shop. Literally, now.Don't be scared off by the mid-1990s look of the website. The site holds so much incredible information that the serious and not-so-serious home roaster really doesn't care what it looks. Sure, there are bigger and

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Thanks to anonymous for the prompt to create this post. It's been way too long since I've posted anything. The holidays, work, and a major death in the family have all taken me away from this place. I'll try to post more often.Try.I'm an amateur coffee roaster, not a professional, and I've been roasting for 1.5 years. In that time, my knowledge of the bean has grown far beyond my own

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I love to see jerks go down. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Senator Allen.The same goes for you, Santorum and Rumsfeld.

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Website of the DayToday's website is one that you might not want to visit while you are eating, or up to 2 hours post-mealtime. I'm talking, of course, about Celebrities Eating Dot Com. This journey through voyeurism of the oft gormandizing beautiful (and not so beautiful) people is best experienced on an empty stomach, and can only be truly appreciated when you read the comments sections.Or I

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Capone's is no moreI hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Capone's is now closed. I got the tip from Legal Chick that there are two large trailers in front of the building, ladders inside, the lights were off, and I just called the number, and it has been disconnected.I (originally anonymous, but you might recognize my posting style in the above link, and certainly my complaints about

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Website of the DayThis is a new feature that I hope you'll enjoy. I'm going to be posting a few of my favorite websites. Some will be useful (like today's), some funny, some idiotic, some time wasters, etc.Today's site is SlickDeals.net. This is a new and improved version of the old Slick Deals site, where users post Internet or in-store specials they find. You can usually get some great

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