Even though they said they weren’t gonna pick it up, the folks at Exploris are bending their educational mission to welcome the most recent George Lucas production, Star Wars Episode II–Attack of the Clones. This is no qualified welcome either: They’re going all out–they’re inviting Peter Mayhew (pictured), aka Chewbacca, to grace the premiere weekend. […]
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In ballet
Anyone smart enough to play the clown bears watching. Many will this weekend when Carolina Ballet presents Stravinsky’s Clowns, Thursday through Sunday at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. For artistic director Robert Weiss, it’s a chance to interpret three works by the 20th-century composer. It’s also a chance for him to present his vision of three classical […]
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Dan’s Zucchini Relish
10 cups unpeeled zucchini, chopped fine 2-3 large onions, chopped fine 1-2 red bell peppers, chopped fine 4 celery stalks, chopped fine 5 tablespoons pickling salt 3 cups white vinegar 4 cups white sugar 1 teaspoon mustard powder 1 teaspoon celery seed 1 teaspoon turmeric (Optional: 1/4 tsp. anise seed) Mix together onion, zucchini and […]
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In retirement parties
Buh bye, Jesse Helms. North Carolina’s infamous statesman will soon end his 30 years in the U.S. Senate, and the veteran anti-Helms activists at Internationalist Books are throwing him a retirement party. Senator Helms’ Lonely Hearts Club celebration will include music from Jackie O. Pillbox, Brother Reade and the Dynamite Brothers, Helms-inspired art, a speech […]
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Coming Attractions
NOV. 1 & 2 There’s jumping rope, and then there’s really jumping rope. Like doing back-flips. Like doing three revolutions in one jump–100 times in a row. That’s what the Bouncing Bulldogs do. The bulldogs, for the uninitiated, are a team of 85 kids from Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough who ranked second in the […]
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In bookstores
Leslie Smith and Bruce Burnside’s In Search of the World: A Traveller’s Almanac is a curious volume. Thin enough to travel with, it’s an international anthology about the philosophy of travel, whose excerpts from the observations of Rimbaud, Henry David Thoreau, William Lithgow and Flora Tristan are interspersed with the evanescent poems of Rumi, Su […]
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Dan Neil
In France recently, porn-lit typist Michel Houellebecq was tried on charges of inciting racial hatred stemming from his remark that he thought Islam was “the most stupid religion”–what’s that in French, religion quelle idiotique? His defense was that he never expressed distain for Muslims, only Islam. I can’t believe this guy is the darling of […]
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In art
Raleigh’s Bickett Gallery will hold An Evening of Modern Art and Music Friday, Oct. 18, featuring not only wood sculptures by Don Matthias, but also screenings of his short films and music by the Tyson Rogers Quartet (a band whose leader has been described by the Boston Phoenix as having a “nervous, twittering energy and […]
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Coming Attractions
OCT. 25 Hold on to your seats as Harlem’s Amateur Night at the Apollo makes its way to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carmichael Auditorium. Complete with 13 amateur acts, a five-piece band, audience participation and the “Executioner”–who will kindly (or not so kindly) escort you off stage should you suck–the winner of amateur night will enjoy $1,000 […]
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In roadtrips
Consider it a road trip for the soul. Many people have found religion, figuratively speaking, at music clubs, so there’s a certain reverse symmetry to the fact that the Nash County Cultural Center is a converted Baptist church. Some great evenings of music have taken place at this Nashville, N.C., venue–located about one hour northeast […]
