We’ve all seen the signs–“Get Cash Until Payday,” and “E-Z Loan,” so easy they’ll do the math for you, just sign your name right there, please, and collect your money. Pay-lending joints are almost as common in the Triangle as Krispy Kreme shops, and taking them head-on at Hayti Heritage Center this month is an […]
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Damage control
With a television news camera in the courtroom and several other reporters waiting around outside, Carolina Power & Light opted to drop charges in Wake County District Court last week against three anti-nuclear activists who were arrested on Oct. 17 for staging a protest at the company’s Raleigh headquarters. Arrested for trespassing were the Rev. […]
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Volunteer Spotlight
WINGS Mentoring Program: Adult female mentors are needed to work one-on-one with girls who are in need of extra support and guidance. Volunteers are encouraged to spend several hours per week with their mentee, exploring recreational, cultural and educational activities. Training is provided. Call 856-7527 for more information.
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State and Main
Garnering comparisons to the classic madcap comedies of Preston Sturges, David Mamet’s latest offering concerns a film company with a dwindling budget that decides to move its shoot to a small Vermont town. Of course, everyone from the local thespians to the town socialites decide to make the most of production and mingle with the […]
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In clay
It’s not often you get a chance to see a retrospective exhibit for an artist who is still alive and working. This week, not only will five decades of Edna Arnow‘s pottery be on display at Claymakers Gallery, but the 80-year-old potter herself will be lecturing on her influences on Jan. 14 at 3 p.m. […]
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In musicals
Perhaps only a reporter could have created the character of Chicago‘s Roxie Hart, a fame-hungry nightclub dancer who kills her lover, then convinces her husband to pay for Chicago’s best defense lawyer to plead her case. When the lawyer, Bill Flynn, helps her crime of passion make celebrity headlines, Hart gets the fame she always […]
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Traffic
Director Steve Soderbergh’s color-saturated, fast-paced thriller takes a realistic look at the war on drugs and inadvertantly exposes the utter futility of declaring any winners. Taking off from prime-time television and shows such as COPS and America’s Most Wanted, Soderbergh tackles the drug problem from all angles in a series of interrelated stories. The film […]
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Venus Beauty Institute
“Beauty is truth and truth beauty,” wrote ode-master John Keats. The poet obviously never stepped foot in a salon. Truth is about the farthest thing from beauty in Venus Beauty Institute, a tale about four lovely women who make their living at a Parisian spa. Written and directed by Tonie Marshall, the movie swept all […]
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In two-man shows
Charles Dickens, who nicknamed Washington, D.C., the “City of Magnificent Intentions,” was thoroughly unimpressed with the United States when he came here on his first tour in the 1840s. The feeling was not mutual. Americans loved the author of David Copperfield and Dombey and Son and mobbed his lectures to get in. Dickens’ reading circuit […]
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Bestsellers
Hardcover 1Not Afraid of Flavor, by Ben and Karen Barker (UNC Press, $29.95). Owners and chefs of Durham’s award-winning Magnolia Grill restaurant share recipes.
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