For the past two decades, Sugar Hill recording artists Austin Lounge Lizards have been serving up C&W and bluegrass licks with a tongue-in-cheek lyrical approach, to deliver their goofy, spirited brand of family-style musical humor. With eight albums to their credit (sample titles: Creatures from the Black Saloon and Highway Cafe of the Dammed), the […]
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In Hell
Hard to believe that it’s been five years since Chapel Hill’s Hell nightclub opened its doors. To celebrate this milestone, the club is sponsoring a series of events called One Hell of a Month. This Thursday, March 14, is “Beach Party” night, featuring kiddie pools and froufrou umbrella drinks (bathing suits optional), while Friday, March […]
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The 1,200-store question
“Can we get big and stay small?” —Starbucks Coffee Co. Chairman Howard Schultz at last week’s annual shareholder meeting in Seattle, where investors debated how the company can expand by 1,200 stores and still preserve its “homegrown” image
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In romance
Waiting to Exhale has nothing on the Romance Slam Jam. The annual African-American romance readers and writers literary conference makes a stop at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham March 7-10. Come and ask your favorite African-American romance authors why their characters do the things they do. Call Tina McCray at 308-5714 for details.
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Community Cookbook
Breads were a part of every meal on the farm. The variety was enormous–from fried cornmeal “dog bread,” hushpuppies, cracklin’ pone, and pancakes to biscuits, rolls, muffins, ash cake and quick breads. We spread them with freshly churned butter, molasses or preserves, and at family meals everyone loved to sop up juice from the cooked […]
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Retrofantasma Film Series
Retrofantasma Film Series Ah, Freddy Krueger … the man that nightmares are made of. Not since 1984 have we had the chance to see this Wes Craven classic on the big screen. The Carolina Theatre will screen a double feature of Craven’s films–The Nightmare on Elm Street and The Hills Have Eyes–this Friday, March 8. […]
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In living legends
He is, he said: Swinging through for his first Triangle appearance since ’87, the now long-in-the-tooth Neil Diamond (pictured) is bringing his “new, electrifying show” to Raleigh. Even now, as he straddles the fine line between living legend and kitsch god (thanks to films like Saving Silverman and cult fave, Neil Diamond Parking Lot), Diamond […]
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Clem Snide with the Weather and the Capitol Years
Clem Snide with the Weather and the Capitol Years A songwriter who can conjure titles such as “Nick Drake Tape,” “Messiah Complex Blues” and “Joan Jett of Arc” is worth at least your passing interest, and a songwriter who can create stories of longing and loves long gone that manage to live up to those […]
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In performance art
In the “when you figure it out, let us in on it” category: This First Friday, March 1, between 7-10 p.m., Chicago-based artist Jen Talbot (pictured) will appear at Raleigh’s LUMP gallery to present On the Dot, a performance and instillation piece incorporating two women suspended from the ceiling by harnesses and dangling in front […]
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Leaps in open air
This week marks the 11th anniversary of the still-unsolved shooting death of Bob Sheldon, the founder of Chapel Hill’s Internationalist Books. Last year, local author and activist Mab Segrest wrote a speech for the event. “Her words remain equally timely only one year later,” says Dawn Peebles, the bookstore’s co-coordinator. Here’s an excerpt: “One of […]
