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Monday December 29th 2025
Hell or High Water
![(Left to right) Ben Foster and Chris Pine in HELL OR HIGH WATER. [Via MerlinFTP Drop]](https://alleynews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hell-or-high-water-1-300x200.jpg)
(Left to right) Ben Foster and Chris Pine in HELL OR HIGH WATER. [Via MerlinFTP Drop]
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Crime/Drama/Quasi-Modern Western R-Rated
“Hell or High Water” is the real deal as far as a solid heist film that is reminiscent of the 1960s and early 1970s heist films such as the late director Michael Cimino”'s heist film “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” (1974) starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges. (Jeff Bridges stars in “Hell or High Water” as well.)
Taking place in sultry small-towns in Texas, towns that have seen better days, but are now just mere shadows of their former times. Picture perfect scenes ripe for a heist just waiting around the corner. Two men, Tanner (Ben Foster) and Toby (Chris Pine) Howard, brothers, rob the bank early in the morning when the first teller arrives for work. They are just beginning to go on a litany of bank robberies with Midland Texas Bank a main target.
While the duo is robbing bank after bank in torrid town after another, Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges) and his Mexican Deputy Albert Parker (Gil Birmingham) are gathering information on the robbers. Marcus is near retirement, a kind of red-necked guy who in his odd way throws affectionate racist insults at his partner.… Read the rest “Hell or High Water”
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre 2016 ”“ 17 Season Announcement
QUEEN
photo by Stephanie Rogers
QUEEN
Premiere
September 23 ”“ October 2, 2016
Grandmothers hold memory and loose memory and lose memory; they have a broad understanding of love- a wide geography that one may get lost in. Written by Erik Ehn and Junauda Petrus Directed by Laurie Carlos Tickets $15.00
PUPPET CABARET
September 16th Curated by Steve Ackerman, Hosted by Daniel Polnau Tickets $10
MUSIC ANIMATED: A Puppet Concert Series featuring Dosh
October 20 ”“ 22, Directed by Bart Buch, Music by Dosh Tickets $20.00
LA NATIVIDAD
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Union Pride
By Peter Molenaar
UNION PRIDE MEETS NATIVE PRIDE, this is the frontline caption seen in the August issue of The St. Paul Union Advocate.
From the article:
“Participants in a unique pre-apprenticeship program co-sponsored by the Cement Masons and area tribal authorities, worked in silence, heads down, as their instructors barked orders”¦”'Let”'s go, you”'ve got to pick up the pace,”' Local 633 apprenticeship instructor Moke Eaglefeathers warned”¦”
Historical note:
A visit to the Interpretive Center at Fort Snelling State Park will reveal the family names of the 1600 innocent Dakotas, interned in the concentration camp of 1862. Innocent? In fact, many had risked their lives to save White settlers. For their reward, they received the ”˜collective punishment”'.
Are there White workers who fail to recognize a Native man”'s right to walk where he walks? Do some whine about treaty rights and every other expression of Native sovereign “privilege?” Oh, yes. However, Organized Labor is working to lift these elements above the level of Donald Trump.
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