Now You See Me Manbites Dog Theater Through March 26 The technology of vanity is developing so quickly that Now You See Me, the new play by Neal Bell in its premiere at Manbites Dog Theater, is almost a period piece already. The play imagines what would happen if a terminal cancer patient was the […]
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“Letter to N.Y.”: Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker, The Complete Correspondence
Perhaps the best way to read Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 496 pp.) is, surprisingly, straight through—but with support. Some books of literary letters are best browsed, like an antique store; but if you prop a copy of Bishop’s Complete Poems, 1927-1979 on your lap and Elizabeth […]
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Berenbaum’s bakery: how much dough for dough?
(berenbaums.blogspot.com)Berenbaum’s (Ari Berenbaum, center) Berenbaum’s Bakery, which has been setting up its modest table catty-corner to the Durham Farmers’ Market for about two months now, is up to something a little more provocative than just making tasty edibles out of flour and selling them. The first provocation comes when you fish out your money to […]
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The lion in winter: Durham Bulls all-time home run leader Chris Richard retires
File photo by D.L. AndersonChris Richard scores in a 2010 game. “They say athletes die twice,” Chris Richard says, near the end of a long, reflective interview. He pauses. That pause lasts just long enough for the listener to realize that he’s been talking about death, in one way or another, the whole time. Richard, […]
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Au revoir, Bonne Soiree
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Yes, Bonne Soiree is expensive. It isn’t a place to dine once a week, or probably even once a month, unless you’re of means. And even if you have the money to go there often, Bonne Soiree isn’t the kind of place you’ll likely patronize frequently. Unlike […]
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Au Revoir, Bonne Soiree! Chapel Hill fine dining restaurant to close at the end of April
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Yes, Bonne Soiree is expensive. It isn’t a place to dine once a week, or probably even once a month, unless you’re of means. Even if you have the money to go there often, Bonne Soiree isn’t the kind of place one’s senses are likely to be […]
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Durham novelist Eric Martin interrogates Donald Rumsfeld
Donald By Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott 112 pp.; McSweeney’s Eric Martin reads at The Pinhook, 117 W. Main St., Durham, on Wednesday, Feb. 23. The free event, which begins at 8 p.m., also features Paradise of Bachelors Soundsystem (DJs Jason Perlmutter and Brendan Greaves) with DJ Wow and MC Taylor of Golden Hiss Messenger, […]
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Tom Stoppard’s couples comedy The Real Thing at Theatre in the Park
The Real Thing Theatre in the Park Through Feb. 20 Pretty cheeky of Theatre in the Park to market its production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing with a Valentine’s Day hook: It’s about infidelity more than love. The play seems to be about more than both of those, toosomething larger about convictions and artifice, […]
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UNC religion professor David Halperin’s novel of a teenager’s space journey
Journal of a UFO Investigator By David Halperin Viking; 304 pp. David Halperin appears at the Regulator Bookshop at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, and McIntyre’s Fine Books at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12. With each passing year of the intensive summer writing camp I co-direct, our high schoolers are writing more stories about misfit […]
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Durham Central Market: The challenges of launching a good idea in tough times
Learn more What: Durham Central Market owner-investment campaign pep rally When: Sunday, Feb. 13, 6–8 p.m. Where: The Trotter Building, 410 W. Geer St. More info: The State of Things host Frank Stasio will emcee. Stuart Reid, executive director of the Food Co-op Initiative, will speak and Durham Cinematheque will show “fun foodie film clips.”Local […]