Brad Fraser’s noir world of sexual conquest and serial killers meets its perfect match in staging this week, when the Raleigh Ensemble Players puts on Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (pictured) at Legends, Raleigh’s alternative night spot. A glorified men’s locker room with pounding beats and a dangling disco ball, Legends […]
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Me and Isaac Newton
In his latest documentary, perennial humanitarian Michael Apted (director of the 7 Up series) aims to make science accessible to the masses. His method? Putting a human face on scientists. Apted interviews seven scientists from several different fields, including the late Gertrude Elion, a pharmaceutical chemist from Chapel Hill who fought childhood leukemia. Apted gives […]
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In Thanksgivings
In late November, after Chapel Hill empties of its homeward-bound college students, Franklin Street can seem almost as desolate as downtown Durham. Yet for a number of Triangle residents the coziest place to spend Thanksgiving is a little underground watering hole off the main drag. For 19 years, the Cave has hosted a Thanksgiving Day […]
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In shopping
Every year, shoppers shake off their post-turkey sloth, drive to the malls to scrap over the best buys on the sales racks, stand in really long checkout lines, and get stalled in a traffic jam exiting the parking lot. Sound like fun? How about heading over to Internationalist Books for their celebration of Buy Nothing […]
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Say Amen, Somebody
You can learn a good amount about the history of black gospel music, and a small amount about the history of black culture in general, without having to yawn over a book. With the 1982 documentary, Say Amen, Somebody, shown in conjunction with the To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and […]
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2000 Citizen Awards
Think globally, act locally. It’s a fine maxim, and judging by the bumper sticker vote, a popular one among progressives for some time now. By that we mean everything we do on this earth affects others around the globe, and we should live our lives accordingly. When we shop, for example, how we choose to […]
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Mock The Vote
The events of the past week have put me in a foul mood. Someone stole the election, and there seems to be nothing that can be done about it. I’m referring to the fact that my kid brother lost his bid for a school board seat in Faribault, Minn. But you knew that. So let’s […]
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Roman Holiday
Well made? Yes. Beautifully shot? Sure. Gorgeous cast? You betcha. Hokey, tear-jerking schmaltz? Admittedly so, but who gives a damn when you can see Eddie Albert in his pre-Green Acres days? Sure, it isn’t the most manly film you could ever watch, but Commando can’t claim to have been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, directed […]
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Behind the Curtain
There he was at the end of the yellow brick road–the Wizard of Oz–a man who would have preferred to stay hidden behind his curtain. How had he engineered so much with so little? The same could be asked of the following folks, who help in multiple ways to create the lush, diverse landscape of […]
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In hunting
Busy Street Children’s Museum will transform the city of Durham into the scene of a mass scavenger hunt on Saturday, Nov. 11. To participate in the first annual Great Busy Street Adventure, show up at the Lakewood Shopping Center museum at 10:30 a.m. with a team of two to eight people (there’s a limit of […]
