What the Midterms Mean for Higher Ed in North Carolina
Legislative victories across North Carolina and the country have given Democrats new leverage over higher education, but it’s not yet clear what they can do with it.
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With ‘The Minutes,’ Bulldog Ensemble Theater Stages a Timely Story About Power, Place, and Local Politics
The Tracy Letts drama will run November 5–13 at the Hayti Heritage Center, with an additional encore performance in Chapel Hill.
Editor’s Picks: November 5-13
An heirloom portrait party, an international film festival, a poetry reading, and more events around the Triangle that we recommend this week.
Did Moving NC State’s Early Voting Location Impact Turnout?
Pack the Polls helped students make plans to vote after Wake County Board of Elections moved a longtime polling place.
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What About ‘Bob?’ Rescued from the Rubble, a Lost Contemporary Painting Finds a New Home at the Nasher
Saved from the demolition site of the Elion-Hitchings Building in 2020, Elizabeth Murray’s 1977 painting is now restored and on view at Durham’s Nasher Museum of Art.
Where to Seek Out Art in the Triangle This Fall
University galleries, Dix Park, the sprawling Click! Photography Festival, a pop-up bookstore—here are all the places we’re taking in art this fall.
What It Takes to Keep History from Fading, Shriveling, or Molding
Talking with Meg Brown, Exhibits Coordinator at Duke Library, about the three Declaration of Independence copies on display in Durham this fall.
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Epiphany on a Plane
How an oncologist’s sci-fi-inspired insight, layoffs at a pharma giant, and the unique culture of Research Triangle Park birthed a major cancer innovation.
Adam O’Fallon Price’s Compelling Stories of Characters at Rock Bottom
If you’re someone who reads for a happy ending, you might want to sit “Objects of Desire” out. For everyone else who likes dark literary fiction with stripes of Denis Johnson and Ottessa Moshfegh: Welcome!
The Day the Priestess and the Poet Met in Asheville
Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school chapter of the NAACP. Their decades-long friendship would become a cultural cornerstone of the Black Power era.
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Incoming! Dark Comedy, Resonant Images, and Giant Metaphors
A darkly comic Martin McDonagh movie about the CIA, John Turturro in an indie crime thriller, and more films coming to theaters near you.
New Documentary Traces the Fight Against Industrial Pollutants in North Carolina Drinking Water
Talking with filmmaker Eli Yetter- Bowman about ‘GenX: The Saga of Forever Chemicals.’ The documentary screens in Saxapahaw on November 13.
Incoming! Surprise Documentaries, Conflicted Killers, and Murderous Crows
First up, the documentary film that everyone is talking about.
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