After a long wait, locals Mayflies USA (pictured above) are releasing their third Yep Roc album, Walking in a Straight Line. After making two records here in Chapel Hill with Chris Stamey, the four-piece went to Chicago’s Playland Studios to record with Keith Cleversley (Flaming Lips, Spiritualized), and the pairing yielded the group’s most organic, […]
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In murals
Even if you don’t know his name, you know the works of Michael Brown. He’s the one responsible for the murals around Chapel Hill that turn the everyday spaces of the streets and alleyways into colorful, playful and sometimes ironic works of art. Perhaps you’ve seen the block-long pencil on Henderson Street? Or the turtle […]
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Trotline
Your Mission, Commander Cooke, is to Explore Exploris Since our cover story a week ago (Exploris Under Fire, July 3), another log’s been put on the stack its critics are building beneath the Raleigh museum: As Todd Cohen, editor of the online Philanthropy Journal, reports, Exploris President Anne Bryan is “officially” an employee of the […]
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In installations
Juke Joint is an interactive, multimedia installation at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies that brings to life the illegal liquor house that artist Willie Little’s father ran during the late ’60s and ’70s in Pactolus Township, near Little Washington, N.C. “At six or seven I was like a sponge absorbing all the ‘goings-on’ in that […]
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Family talk
“Family talk.” That’s what Carl Kenney, pastor of Orange Grove Baptist Church in Durham calls the discussions that go on all the time around dinner tables, at the water cooler, on the front porch or in church in African-American communities across the Triangle. These days, rapid changes taking place in those communities have focused that […]
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In drag
The higher the hair, the closer to God,” says The “Lady” Bunny (pictured above), who was named the country’s number one drag queen by Genre magazine. This Lady is best know as the founder, producer and Mistress of Ceremonies of Wigstock, New York’s Labor Day dragfest since 1984. She’s a Southern girl through and through, […]
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In Latin music
Having gone through several incarnations as a Latin/world/party band in the last decade or so, Richmond-based Bio Ritmo (a Spanish play on “biorhythms”) has come full circle to their salsa roots. Frontman Rei Alvarez (pictuerd above, with the band), one of the band’s founders, spent a lot of that time painting murals after leaving in […]
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In Fourth of July festivals
Want to kick off your fab Fourth weekend with former teen mall queen Debbie Gibson, now a bona fide Broadway diva/star? Gibson joins N.C. School of the Arts alum and musical legend Terrence Mann (pictured above), Anthony Rapp, Alice Ripley, Raleigh native Lauren Kennedy and more for Broadway Rocks for the Arts, presented by the […]
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Domino effect
The 30th anniversary of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty came and went this weekend, amid swirling headlines about two recent high court decisions that opponents of capital punishment say could prove just as important. Thirty years ago on June 29, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in Furman v. Georgia […]
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In concision
Leave it to a group of Americans–the Californian-born Reduced Shakespeare Company–to condense all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays, plus the sonnets, into 97 minutes of comedy. Chapel Hill’s Open Door Theatre performed The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) three years ago, and will bring the play back to the Triangle this month. Traveling to some […]
