The thing about a symphony orchestra is that its members don’t usually run around and wade into their audience, wear technicolor T-shirts and tennis shoes, and use their instruments as props. National performing arts group Tales & Scales, however, has turned the stuffy image of classical musicians on its head. Critics had to invent a […]
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The Third Annual Jewish Film Festival
This Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 22-25, Durham’s Carolina Theatre will host a variety of Jewish short films, features and guest speakers, ranging from Bruce Wagner’s I’m Losing You and From Swastika to Jim Crow to the current Israeli feature film Yana’s Friends. Sunday’s “Jewish Musical Experience” features six bands, ranging from sacred to klezmer. Left […]
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Volunteer Spotlight
Pedals for Progress: This nonprofit that collects used bicycles and ships them to developing nations, needs your dusty, old ten speeds, mountain bikes and touring bicycles. By keeping your unwanted bike from packing out our landfills, you can provide a means of transportation to someone who really needs it. You could even sponsor your own […]
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In powwows
Since 1992, the North Carolina School of Math and Science has been making a name for itself among Native American communities for its powwows–intertribal gatherings that transform the school’s gymnasium into a boisterous celebration of pan-Indianism. The powwows are put on by the school’s Native American club, and they bring together dancers and musicians from […]
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Volunteer Spotlight
SONC Basketball Tournament: Special Olympics North Carolina needs more than 800 volunteers for its 2001 Basketball Tournament to be held March 2-4 in Greensboro. More than 650 Special Olympics athletes will participate in individual skills, three-on-three and five-on-five competitions at several school locations. Recent orientation sessions have passed, but a makeup session will be held […]
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McCollege Tour
College kids think deep thoughts. They’re also generally pretty idealistic. The little whippersnappers have gone and challenged the dominant paradigm again, and are calling the cinematic expression of their earnest introspection “The McCollege Tour.” Two documentaries, The Subtext of a Yale Education and University Inc., challenge the corporatization of America’s universities–the former through its story […]
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Volunteer Spotlight
Habitat for Humanity Hand-Me-Ups: While this resale store doesn’t necessarily need volunteers; they’d like you to donate your quality furniture and working appliances. Profits from the sale of donated goods go to Habitat for Humanity, a group that builds and refurbishes homes for those in need. Please make sure your donations are clean and everything […]
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Hannibal
Bring on the fava beans and a nice chianti! Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer with a taste for human flesh, returns to terrorize us in the much-hyped follow-up to Silence of the Lambs. Ridley Scott, riding high after Gladiator, directs this 10-years-in-the-making sequel, with Anthony Hopkins reprising his role as the brilliantly bent cannibal. Living […]
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In valentines
It’s not every day you can satisfy your craving for unconditional love, and, um, cheese, but the Celebrity Dairy Goat Farm has it all Feb. 11, when they host their free annual Valentine’s Open Barn. Roughly 40 baby goats will be roiling around from 1 to 5 p.m.–the little tykes love attention, and a few […]
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In plays
When Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set out to race for the South Pole–the last “undiscovered” spot on earth–the Englishman chose ponies for his beasts of burden, while the Norwegian used dogs. Those were the days of grand, knightly enterprises, when how you went about exploring was almost as important as what you found. […]
