Wake Election Officials Censured for Counting Ballots of Three Dead N.C. Voters
State Board of Elections members found the Wake officials violated their duties when they counted early ballots from voters who died before Election Day in 2024.
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Wake School Board Passes Meal Price Increase, Creates Task Force to Address Cost
It’s the fifth consecutive year the district has raised school meal prices.
New Zoning for East Durham’s Garland District Could Transform the Historic Neighborhood
Developers with ties to the neighborhood have plans to turn the Angier-Driver corridor into a mini downtown.
Q&A: What Deborah Ross Saw Inside the ICE Processing Facility in Cary
Ross recently toured the Cary ICE facility as part of a congressional oversight visit.
ART
Hearing Jazz and Seeing Art the Fred Joiner Way, With a Poetry Debut 50 Years in the Making
“The Mirror in Our Music,” a new collection by former Carrboro Poet Laureate Fred Joiner, is rich in references to art, music, and collaboration.
In Wide-Ranging New Exhibition of Native American Artists, Ancestral Knowledge Animates the Stories of Today
‘Stories Told By Breath: Native American Voices in North Carolina’ is on display at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design through September 26.
Resistance Was at the Heart of This Year’s QuiltCon
At the recent Raleigh event, quilting’s radical history took center stage, with dozens of works that commented on censorship and corruption and called for change.
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Ben Fountain’s New Novel Imagines a Political Reality Even More Dangerously Absurd Than the Trump Era
‘Rasputin Swims the Potomac,’ the North Carolina writer’s new political satire, touches down with a pandemic of “weeping sickness,” a mystical professional wrestler, and an American president making a power grab for a third term.
The Epic Real-Life Friendship Behind an Acclaimed Novel
Lily King’s “Heart the Lover” commemorates three men who bonded as students in Chapel Hill.
A Raleigh Writer’s New Memoir Revisits the Culinary School Trenches
“Salt, Sweat & Steam: The Fiery Education of an Accidental Chef,” Brigid Washington’s account of her time at the Culinary Institute of America and beyond, releases on April 28.
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Incoming! Sapphic Romance, Gaelic Witches, and Vanishing Glaciers
Coming-of-age drama ‘Girls like Girls,’ Adam Scott in an Irish horror film, and more movies coming to local theaters.
A New Downtown Durham Movie Theater. A New Cinema Community To Help Light Up Its Screen.
Organizations like Skin and Bones Theater and Film Durham are working to build a local cinema scene that both reflects and benefits the community around it.
Filmed in Durham, a New Movie About Cosmic Coincidences Has Flown Under the Radar
The Bull City is somewhat of a main character in the indie rom-com ‘Everything & the Universe,’ streaming since last year on Amazon Prime. So why has no one heard of it?
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