You owe Spike and Mike a world of thanks, and you didn’t even know it. If it weren’t for them, you might never have seen the works of Nick Park (Chicken Run), Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead) or Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park). In the ’70s, Craig “Spike” Decker and Mike Gribble compiled […]
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Yellow Submarine
There is a sweet legend most Beatles fans know about how John Lennon met and fell in love with Yoko Ono. When Lennon attended one of the young, hip artist’s openings, he was encouraged to climb a ladder there. At the top, he found a small piece of paper with the word “yes” written on […]
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Indy Bestsellers
Hardcover 1. Jim the Boy, by Tony Earley (Little Brown, $23.95). A young boy grows up in rural North Carolina during the Great Depression. 2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K Rowling (Scholastic, $25.95). Book No. 4 of the Harry Potter series finds him returning to sorcerer´s school. 3. Me Talk Pretty […]
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In history
Soon museum exhibits will be all the Triangle has left of its once-thriving tobacco farming community. The heavy sweet smell has faded from the brick factories that loom over Durham’s downtown, and Brightleaf is more strongly associated with shopping than a special kind of plant. On Saturday, July 29, a Tobacco Harvest Festival at Duke […]
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In video
If you feel far away from the “film scene” or have wondered if North Carolina even has one, July 7’s Video is an Aphrodisiac may be your starting point to getting connected. The wordshed productions event features three videos by local film- and videomaker Jesse Seay, who wants to turn the “one-way conversation” of film […]
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Kadosh
It is difficult to raise criticisms of religion while being respectful of its members, but director Amos Gitai was willing to give it a shot. The third film of a trilogy featuring three different cities and their inhabitants, Kadosh, a Hebrew word meaning “sacred,” focuses on the Orthodox Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, Mea Shearim. The […]
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In reenactments
Ever have a hankering to smell the smoke of musket fire or hear a real rebel yell? Stop by the encampment of the 26th North Carolina regiment at Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh on July 8 and 9. The park’s Living History Weekend features infantry and artillery demonstrations and a fashion show by the Ladies […]
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Of small-town murders, sex and the high seas
Summer ReadingCall it Manifest Destiny, call it frontier spirit–escapism has always been at the heart of American culture. From the first explorers of the East Coast to the first astronauts on the moon, from television-watchers to beachgoers to Internet junkies, what would we Americans do with our lives if we weren’t always departing them? Thus, […]
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The 2000 Indies
This year’s winners Ronnie Lilly: Guardian angel The Red Clay Ramblers: Rabble-Rousers The Third Place Coffeehouse: A Great Good Place Jelly Educational Theater: High Note E.B. and Juanita Palmer: Local Legacy Burning Coal Theatre Company: Mind and Heart Scott Ainslie: Human Capital
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In dance theater
How many of us have felt cheated of our own nostalgia when favorite pop songs get used by marketers to endorse cars, appliances, cat food? StreetSigns’ resident choreographer Peter Carpenter explores the themes of memory, pop music and the management of loss in Pop Sadness, which will run from June 7-11 at the Swain Hall […]
