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In opera
Two operas. In nine days. That, in a nutshell, is Opera Company of North Carolina’s 2002 “season,” and it gets underway this weekend with two performances of La Traviata (pictured) at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Whether you’re an opera buff or not, Verdi’s consumptive courtesan should be familiar: In 1937, director George Cukor adapted the Alexandre […]
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X-Ecutioners
In the future, every public school system will have its own sound system, but until then, the kids wearing headphones and bringing needles to school will still be suspended. But that day is coming soon, and Built from Scratch is helping. Rob Swift, Total Eclipse, Roc Raida and Mista Sinista are The X-Men, aka The […]
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Cornershop
OK, so maybe you got sick of hearing every rock critic in the country sing the praises of London’s Cornershop a few years back. The undeniable fact is that the band’s sophomore release, When I Was Born For The 7th Time, covered all the bases, strumming out three chord sing-alongs (“Brimful of Asha”) and working […]
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In brawling
The First Annual Capital City Brawl takes over Raleigh’s Dorton Arena this week, when over 40 men and 8 women step into the ring to prove just how, well, tough and bad they are. (Greensboro’s version of the same event is pictured above.) According to the Brawl promoters, the referee for the event is a […]
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Kinder, gentler war?
The country’s war on terrorism continues to produce startling concepts and turns of phrase. A case in point: “Winning the Peace in Afghanistan,” the headline on a recent press release from the Association of the U.S. Army and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The release describes the formation of The Commission on Post-Conflict […]
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In indie music
Chicks with Picks 2002 is the name given their East Coast tour by indie artists Kyler (a Triangle native) and L.A.-based Adrianne (pictured). Both young women–they met at Berklee in ’98–are award-winning singer-songwriters who’ve shared stages with the likes of Liz Phair and Mary Lou Lord. They’re also featured on a new Epic/Sony compilation, Shekinah […]
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Poetry Contest Details
How were the winners chosen? Submissions were handled anonymously. Neither the initial screeners nor the final judge knew the names of the entrants until the winning poems had been selected. The final judge selected the four winning poems and the three honorable mentions from over 30 finalists. What did they win?The first-place winner receives $500 […]
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Mary Hennessy, Raleigh
“I like to say that I started my undergraduate education and menopause at the same time,” says Mary Hennessy, who’s currently a graduate English student at North Carolina State University. In her “other life” as a RN, she says, she worked in many disparate areas in nursing: Army Nurse Corps, oncology, and Hospice of Wake […]
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Brian Ownbey, Raleigh
When Brian Ownbey was a freshman at UNC-Wilmington, he decided he was going to be a writer. So he took an entry-level creative writing course. “The instructor’s comments were brutal,” he says. “I had a hard time stomaching his critiques and he was a pompous ass, but he was also a great writer. I quit […]
