CAM Is Selling Its Iconic Building. Could It Have Done More to Keep It?
The decision to sell comes after a 2020 rezoning made the downtown museum’s property much more valuable. CAM leadership maintains they want the institution to “be here for years to come”—but many in the art world feel skeptical.
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Big Littles Lies
A popular children’s clothing boutique that began in downtown Cary appeared to be expanding quickly. But behind the flourishing facade, vendors, contractors, customers, and employees say they were being swindled.
Incoming! Peasant Revolts, Wilderness Survival, and Victorian Psychopaths
Ethan Hawke as a Depresion-era prisoner in “The Weight,” Andrew Garfield as an anonymous ploughman in “The Uprising,” and more films coming to local theaters near you.
Durham Students Improve Test Scores, but Graduation Rate Lags
For the first time on record, no Durham public schools earned an F rating.
ART
Valerie Hillings On Fundraising, the Role of Regional Museums, and What Piece of Art She’d Most Like to Live Inside
A conversation with Valerie Hillings, whose eight-year tenure as director of the North Carolina Museum of Art drew to a close on August 31.
A New Multidisciplinary Space in Durham Channels the Supportive Spirit of The Carrack
Boardinghouse Arts, Shirlette Ammons and Laura Ritchie’s new Trinity Avenue venture, picks up where Ritchie’s former gallery the Carrack Modern Art left off. It will open in September.
Hyperlocal Zines Help Make Durham Come Alive
The DIY booklets encourage readers to engage more deeply with the city around them—offering illustrated guides for how to safely bike, explore local history and ecology, or even find a good spot to cry.
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Carrboro Author Elisa Faison On Polyamory, Domestic Fiction, and Her Debut Novel ‘Skin Contact’
Released in June, ‘Skin Contact’ has the buzzy premise of a young couple navigating an newly opened marriage. But the novel is as interested in friendship and family as it is romance.
White Men and White Metal
How a small group of white men engineered the violent 1898 overthrow of Wilmington’s duly elected multiracial government.
At Raleigh’s Bright Side Books & Wine, Love Stories of Every Stripe and a Robust Community of Romance Readers
The romance genre has seen a publishing boom over the last decade. In Raleigh, a new genre bookstore hopes to make readers swoon—and stay for the social connections.
SCREEN
“Creating the Conditions for Care”: Durham Native Andie Morgenlander On Making Her First Feature and Humanizing Film Sets
‘Whistle Down Wind,’ Morgenlander’s debut feature, is deeply rooted in North Carolina. It screens at this year’s OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival.
In New Documentary, a Moving Tribute to North Carolina’s First Openly Trans Homecoming King
‘What Will I Become?’, which plays August 13-18 at OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival, shines light on the legacies of Blake Brockington and Kyler Prescott, two trans teenagers who lost their lives to suicide.
Incoming! Celebrity Sex Passes, Professional Scenesters, and Greek Mythology
Zoey Deutch in a meta summer comedy, a documentary about the music producer Peter Asher, and more films coming to theaters around the Triangle.
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