FMVA Artist Crawl 2026
By: Mateo Landayan Art can feel like something you have to travel somewhere else to experience. Museums, galleries, expensive tickets, and my dad’s classic “I’ll go next weekend” excuse can make local art incredibly easy to overlook. But every fall, The Fargo-Moorhead Visual Artists Studio crawl becomes one of the busiest weekends for local art,…
The Plains Art Museum (and a brief history)
By: Mateo Landayan Downtown Fargo has plenty of places to spend an afternoon, but one of the biggest collections of art is sitting inside a former warehouse on First Avenue North. The plains art museum has been a part of Fargo’s art scene for more than 60 years, and this summer, the museum is beginning…
What Would Make An FPS Shooter Unique?
By: Emmitt Miller In the world of video games, many games try to stand out by offering better graphics, exciting action, or competitive multiplayer modes. This game ARC Raiders brings something different to the table. Developed by Embark Studios, ARC Raiders is a third person extraction shooter that combines survival, exploration, teamwork, and intense battles…
How My Chemical Romance Changed Modern Rock
By: Christina Miller My Chemical Romance was very popular in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The band helped shape the sound, style, and emotional lyrics of the rock and emo genres. Their influence still carries over into many modern-day bands with theater-like music. The band helped bring emo music into the mainstream. During the…
Daisy Chain Fields Festival: Empowering Women
By: Christina Miller Olivia Rodrigo founded and headlined the Daisy Chain Fields Festival. It took place in Irvine, CA, on August 28, 2026. The festival was created to raise money and give all the profits to ten charities. The festival drew approximately 45,000 people, and tickets sold out within 30 minutes. The festival held 14…
The Final draw of Fishing in Gaming
By: Emmitt Miller In the world of video games, fishing is usually seen as a relaxing activity where players cast a line, wait for a fish to bite, and enjoy the peaceful environment. However, the Steam game How to Fish, developed by Dazed Games, takes this idea and turns it into something much more chaotic…
The Real Leatherface
By: Allison Ambuehl Texas Chainsaw Massacre the horrifying thriller that changed independent films’ reputations forever, proving they can compete against full on productions. The movie was made in 1974 on a $140,000 budget and a dream. Their budget proved to be no problem when compared to its success, as it rose to gross $30 million…
Cat in The Hat: Hoax or Real?
By: Savannah Swanson The Cat in the Hat trend is a viral social media trend that includes disturbing AI- generated images of the Dr. Suess character lurking in neighborhoods, schools, and homes. People are making Cat in the Trend as menacing and Mike Mylers themed, by making it slowly approach homes and set them in…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer; The Girl Behind the Slayer
By: Allison Ambuehl Buffy the Vampire slayer is a classic seven season television show that ran from 1997 – 2003. Although you might have watched it on a bulky, 20-inch analog television as a kid, it’s still wildly successful and amassed 100 million dollars in streaming revenue as recent as 2020. Even though there are…
Dolly Parton: Beyond the Music
By: Savannah Swanson Dolly Parton was an amazing songwriter, singer, actress, and businesswomen. Who shaped pop and country culture today with her humor, sharp wit, and one of a kind vocals. Dolly wrote over 3,000 songs including her most popular ones, “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors”, and “I Will Always Love You”. She became a…
Nostalgic TV
by Enar Ahmed Hello, everyone. Welcome to setting the scene. This is your host Enar, I’m a Freshman at Sheyenne Highschool, and today I will be talking about Nostalgic TV and how it has shaped our lives. Enar Ahmed: So, how exactly have TV shows and movies shaped our lives? Specifically, those shows that…
Roots of Resident Evil
Resident Evil is a survival horror game franchise, originally developed and released by the Japanese video game company, Capcom in 1996.Capcom’s inspiration for Resident Evil was the games Sweet Home and Alone in the Dark. They originally wanted to make Resident Evil a first-person, similarly to Sweet Home but they ultimately decided to change it…
Catch Me at Coachella!
By: Mateo Landayan If you opened social media at any point in April, you probably saw Coachella without even trying. Between headline performances, surprise appearances, and clips going viral, Coachella 2026 quickly became one of the most talked about events of the month. Across two weekends, the festival brought together major stars, global acts, and newer artists who used…
Frozen I
By: Amara Duchaine When I was younger, I enjoyed watching Frozen because of the music and I liked the fact that Elsa had ice powers. Now that im older and still watch Frozen and I like to focus more on the characters and how they change throughout the movie. In the beginning, the movie starts…
The Butterfly Effect
By: Allison Ambuehl The butterfly effect is an interesting concept that explains how tiny actions can lead to major consequences over time. The idea comes from chaos theory, a branch of science that studies complex systems and unpredictable events. The term was popularized by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in the 1960s. He suggested that something as small as…
Fourth Wing Series
By: Allison Ambuehl The Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros has become one of the biggest sensations in modern fantasy literature. Known officially as the Empyrean series, the books combine fantasy, romance, action, and political intrigue in a world filled with dragons, war colleges, and dangerous secrets. Since the release of the first novel in 2023, the series has…
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The May issue of the Mustang Post for the 2025-2026 is out now! You can read the current issue here!
Genshin Impact: The Lore
By: Quinn Nordick Genshin Impact sets its scene in a world called “Teyvat”. Teyvat is the world that the main characters named “Lumine” and “Aether” crash land. After they wake, they attempt to leave, but as they are making their attempt, their path is blocked by an unknown god that ends up separating the two…
The Last of Us Show and Game Contrast
By: Savannah Swanson There are a lot of negative opinions on The Last of Us show vs The Last of Us gameplay and I’m here to tell you about the differences on the show that was important for the gameplay. To start off The Last of Us is a game based off a outbreak of…
Artist spotlight
Maryama Ali is a sophomore at Sheyenne High School and is currently in her second year of art classes. She does both traditional sketches and digital pieces, as well as working with multiple media to explore her style in different ways. As she explores art she continues to challenge herself and learn through each new…
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
By: Christina Miller I’ve been playing this game for almost a week now, and I seriously enjoy it. It first came out 10 years ago on the 3DS (I never played it on 3DS), but it recently came out for the Switch. The game has gone semi-viral on TikTok, with many people sharing their Mii’s…
PaperMate American Blue Wood Case Checking Pencil
The PaperMate American Blue wood case checking pencil is not listed on the official PaperMate ‘about us’ list of advancements they’ve made to mankind. But was the PaperMate American Blue Wood Case checking pencil that insignificant or just unlucky? Lets see. While WW II was simmering under a couple years of European warfare, Patrick J.…
Callen Fosher’s We-Fest Craze!
As days grow longer, the weather becomes warmer, and the moods of Midwesterners start to be more positive, you can feel the aroma of summer creeping up upon us! With long summer days at the lake approaching us, a common theme associates itself with warm weather and good vibes, country music. As country music becomes…
Henrik Wergeland’s Local and Worldly Impact
By: Adrianna Raile After having gone through many renovations, Island Park holds a great story about the history of Fargo and the history of disputes between foreign countries. The most important story about Island Park is the story of Henrik Wergeland and the statues built for him. Henrik Wergeland was born in 1808 in Kristiansand,…
Supernatural Pilot Overview
By: Adrianna Raile Supernatural is a 15-season long show, averaging about 21-22 episodes per season, totaling 327 in the whole series. The show first aired on CW in 2005 and ran until 2020, staying consistent with their releases and cast. Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles as the older brother Dean Winchester and Jared Padalecki as the…
For Democracy: Helldivers2 The Introduction
Helldivers 2 is one of the most explosive and chaotic co-op shooters to emerge in recent years, blending fast-paced action with teamwork, strategy, and a surprisingly satirical tone. Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, the game was released in February 2024 for PlayStation 5 and PC, later expanding to additional…
The Rise of Carnival Cruising
With temperatures averaging 30 degrees and lower and lots of cold precipitation this spring, many North Dakotans search for spring vacation destinations that are warm and worth their well-earned dollars. From Florida to tropical islands, people factor in their personal budgets, want for a vacation, as well as flight costs to get to their beloved…
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The April issue of the Mustang Post for the 2025-2026 is out now! You can read the current issue here!
The Neighbourhood
By: Allison Ambuehl The Neighbourhood is an incredibly popular band with over 40 million monthly listeners on Spotify, and their most streamed song ‘Sweater Weather’ has a little over 2.1 billion streams! To put these numbers into perspective, Mozart, the child prodigy who revolutionized western music in the 1700s, only has 7.6 million monthly streams…
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Digital Illustration Cristina Rana is a sophomore at Sheyenne High School and is currently in her second year of art classes. She enjoys experimenting with both traditional sketches and digital pieces and develop her personal style. Her art style is inspired by an anime-influenced look, with soft coloring and stylized character features that help give…
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