Raleigh-native David Sedaris made his debut on NPR’s Morning Edition with “SantaLand Diaries,” a postmodern holiday classic that tells in surreal and hilarious detail his experiences as a Christmas elf at Macy’s. “My name is Crumpet,” he announces at one point in the story. “We were allowed to choose our own names and given permission […]
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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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Shakti, Slow Blues and Soul
Shopping for the finicky music geek in your family? Instead of our usual Soundbite reviews of recent national releases, our roster of Indy critics have come up with a great selection of musical gift ideas. Charlie Parker The Complete Savoy and Dial Recordings 1944-1948 Savoy Box Set
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Local progressives weigh in
Inclusive savvy The Rev. Carrie Bolton I voted for Gov. Jim Hunt the first time he ran. I was 18, and felt very good about it. Central to the work I’ve done in Chatham County are my efforts to provide services for children ranging in age from 2 to 18. I have a child care […]
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In birds
On Christmas Day in 1900, a band of bird-lovers decided to do something different from the traditional holiday “side hunt,” in which teams competed to see who could shoot down the most birds. Led by ornithologist Frank Chapman, 27 conservationists in 25 localities decided to count their feathered friends instead of hunt them. This year […]
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Rock Ridge to Raleigh
Looking back, what’s most remarkable about Jim Hunt, our governor for 16 of the last 24 years and lieutenant governor before that, is how little he’s changed. He was “tough on crime” in the ’70s. He’s still tough on crime. Taxes? Didn’t like ’em then, doesn’t like ’em now. In his first inaugural address in […]
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Solas
The feature from Spanish director Benito Zambrano, Solas is the story of Maria, a beautiful but hardened woman who lives an aimless life of petty crime and loneliness in an unnamed city in southern Spain. In Zambreno’s spin on the old love-and-redemption theme, Maria’s mother shows up to live with her when Maria’s authoritarian father […]
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Some examples of Lumbee dialect
chawed: (adj.) embarrassed, disgraced cooter: (noun) a large swamp turtle
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Into the Arms of Strangers
Nine months before the beginning of World War II, Britain began accepting Jewish and other persecuted children into its homes–often for good. For producer Deborah Oppenheimer, making Into the Arms of Strangers was a personal journey to trace the escape of her mother and her companions on the “Kindertransport,” the train that took over 10,000 […]
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