Outside the Box
At Carrboro’s Cardboard Wars, kids get creative with refuse and live-action role playing.
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City of Durham Passes 60-Day Data Center Moratorium
City and county officials indicated they would explore a longer ban.
Op-Ed: Wake County Schools Need More Counselors
Students across Wake County suffer in silence as the shortage of school counselors makes it difficult to get the help that they need, a recent Holly Springs High School graduate writes.
Trump Cuts Threaten to Halt Two Decades of HIV Vaccine Research
Duke has led a national HIV research consortium since 2005, with several promising vaccines ready for trials. Now the NIH is ending its major grant.
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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.
How the Eno River Served as a Muse for Artist Silvia Heyden’s Weaving Practice
Small in size but not in scope, the Nasher Museum of Art’s exhibition on Silvia Heyden celebrates the enduring influence that nature and music had on the pioneering Durham artist’s work.
All Critters Great and Small
In December, the prolific Bynum folk artist Clyde Jones passed away. His legacy lives on in lore, friendship, and the playful animal log sculptures he made and gave away freely.
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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.
“Power to the People, Y’all” Revisits a Revolutionary Winston-Salem Chapter
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s new documentary short looks back on the first Black Panther Party chapter to be established in the South, and how its legacy lives on today.
A Durham Death Doula’s Guide for Better Living and Dying
In a culture that will do anything to avoid talking about mortality, how should we think about death ? In a new book, Jane K. Callahan offers an honest, empowering framework for preparing for the end.
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The Filmmakers Behind “The Great Experiment” On Resisting Tidy Narratives
Eric Daniel Metzgar and Steve Maing’s new documentary, which screens at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival this week, paints a portrait of the national mood during the first Trump administration.
“A Little Part of Everyone Somewhere in Her Story”: Talking to Filmmaker Alan Berliner About BENITA
The documentary, a posthumous portrait of experimental filmmaker Benita Raphan, explores creativity, loneliness, and mental health. It screens at Durham’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival this week.
Amy Goodman and the Art of the Follow-up Question
“Steal This Story, Please!”, a new documentary about the intrepid Democracy Now! host, makes a gripping case for the urgency of independent journalism. It will stream at this year’s Full Frame Documentary Festival.
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