A New Program Aims to Make Therapy More Accessible to Restaurant Workers. Will It Reach the Back of House?
Behind You, a national initiative from the Southern Smoke Foundation, launched in North Carolina this summer, offering free counseling to workers in hospitality—an industry that overwhelmingly doesn’t offer healthcare.
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Mexican Man From Durham Dies From Leukemia While In ICE Custody
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center, where he had been for three weeks. He reported that he had not received medical attention after experiencing severe symptoms. He died on Friday, July 24.
Incoming! Girl Scouts, Boy Robots, and Telepathic Stoners
Feel-good documentary “Cookie Queens,” Alia Shawkat and Kristen Stewart on an alkaloid-fueled adventure in “The Wrong Girls,” and more films playing across the Triangle this month.
Is North Carolina Ready for an Invasion of Bee-Killing Hornets?
After creeping north for three years, the yellow-legged hornet has arrived. Both hobbyists and professional beekeepers are gearing up for a fight.
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From Her Garden Post in Wilmington, Prolific Artist Minnie Evans Patrolled the Borders Between Worlds
A new documentary unspools the story of Minnie Evans, a North Carolina artist whose visionary work channeled a dialogue with the divine and broke through the art world.
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.
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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.
Feels On Wheels: How Local Pop-Up Romance Bookstores Are Creating Inclusive Reading Communities
Want a romance read that goes beyond castles, dowries, and long blonde hair? Just ask the owners of Peach Basket Books and Rebel Romance Bookstore.
SCREEN
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.
“The Dating Scene Is a Mess”: Filmmaker Anthony L. Williams On Therapy, Raleigh, and Why He Made a Queer Dating Docuseries
Raleigh expat Anthony L. Williams returns to the Oak City this month for a screening of a new docuseries about navigating modern dating.
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.
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