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 […]
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In pride and parades
As festival day for NC Pride 2000, Saturday will host a number of entertaining events, kicking off with a parade at 1 p.m. that features dozens of floats, and marchers such as Mayor Mike Nelson, Reverend Jimmy Creech, poet Jeffery Beam and others. The parade will begin at Duke East Campus on Campus Drive. Throughout […]
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In psychic candy
Reading one’s horoscope rides high on many folks’ lists of guilty pleasures. Yet somehow, turning to Rob Brezsny (pictured below) for psychic advice has always proved a very rewarding, if no less self-conscious, experience. Brezsny, a man Utne Reader has referred to as a “Culture Hero,” is one of those truly inspired weirdos; he’s been […]
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Your Turn
your turn Raleigh Budget Hearing, Tuesday, June 6: Raleigh’s city council must approve a budget by July 1. Citizens are encouraged to look over the proposed budget and offer their comments at a public hearing Tuesday at the Avery C. Upchurch Government Complex, 222 W. Hargett St., at 7 p.m. If you can’t speak at […]
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Rodan! The Flying Monster
What does sculptor Auguste Rodin (pronounced Ro-dahn, if you aren’t up on your French) have in common with Rodan (pronounced like it’s spelled), the giant pterodactyl? The N.C. Museum of Art’s exhibit of the artist’s work has given the Triangle an excuse to milk every possible connection to the exhibit, no matter how weak that […]
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In essayists
One of North Carolina’s most glorious complainers, David Sedaris has experienced such success that recently he was able to move from New York, the United States’ most expensive and exclusive city, to Paris, the old world’s answer to high culture. But it is Sedaris’ combination of comic humility with his criticism that makes him so […]
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Welfare queen?
If ever there was an article designed to make the average, hard-working, tax-paying citizen’s blood boil, “Hustling for the Good Life” [May 17] was it. While we are busting our butts to earn enough to feed our families and pay our taxes, this deadbeat mom simply has a couple of kids, moves into a tax-supported […]
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In recording
A little Cold War trivia for collectors of anti-Soviet kitsch: The United States once designed a compact record player to be airlifted over the Iron Curtain–where it would broadcast messages about human freedom to the communist populace. The device is one of the many recording artifacts on display this week in the Wilson Library at […]
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Your Turn
your turn School Violence Forum, Wednesday, May 31: Parents for Peaceable Schools, a group of McDougle Middle School parents concerned about school violence, is sponsoring a program on the topic Wednesday. Dr. Pam Riley, executive director of the N.C. Center for the Prevention of School Violence, will present a speech titled, “School Violence: Let’s Get […]
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In humor
On May 25, comedian Jeff Dunham will come to Charlie Goodnight’s to prove that the vaudeville traditions are alive and well–his ventriloquism act has landed him slots on major television talk shows. One of Dunham’s alter egos is the famous and frowning Walter, a curmudgeon who purportedly told Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show: “It […]
