Horse park will race for 3 weekends
FARGO, N.D. — The State Racing Commission has approved three weekends of racing for the North Dakota Horse Park in Fargo.
Races are scheduled for July 18, 19, 25 and 26 and Aug. 1 and 2.
It will be the 10th year of horse racing in Fargo.
Track general manager Mike Schmitz says last summer's season was a success. — Associated Press
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Library to host 'worst movie' series
FARGO, N.D. — The Fargo Public Library is kicking off its three-week "worst movie" series Sunday.
The first movie to be screened at the downtown main library will be Ed Wood's 1953 "Glen or Glenda?" The screening will begin at 3 p.m. following a panel discussion that will include Greg Carlson, director of film studies and media activities at Concordia College, and Brittney Goodman, the co-chair of the Fargo Film Festival.
Other films that are part of the library's "Bad: The Cult Film Series" include "The Apple," which will be screened on Nov. 23, and "Troll 2," scheduled to be screened on Nov. 30. — Associated Press
Theater to present 'Storefront Church'
FARGO, N.D. — Theater B in downtown Fargo is set to present during the upcoming holiday season a play that explores the nature of faith.
The theater will present "Storefront Church" the final piece in John Patrick Shanley's "Church and State" trilogy. The play opens Nov. 28 and runs through Dec. 27.
"Storefront Church" is a comedy set in the wintery Bronx borough in New York, where bankers threaten foreclosure, a disillusioned preacher has lost his faith, and a modern-day Scrooge yearns for redemption.
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Thrown together by a mortgage crisis, an ethically conflicted, fictional Bronx borough president and a high-minded preacher who's a Hurricane Katrina refugee from New Orleans square off in an intense confrontation about their individual commitments to their social and spiritual beliefs.
The play is being directed by Patrick Carriere. — Associated Press
