So Honda has a nice $20,000 two-seater gas-electric car [“IGO ECO,” April 29]. Big deal. We had electric cars in 1910. Consider the disastrous effects the car has on city planning and land values. Look at the Yellow Pages. More pages deal with cars than any other category except for lawyers. Add up the amount […]
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In light shows
Celebrate spring and the return of the light at 7 p.m. on May 5, when Carolina Theatre hosts LUMA: Theatre of Light. LUMA blends kite-work, trapeze artists, and jugglers with new lighting technologies for a stunning, two-hour, three-dimensional show. The art form’s creator, a juggler/magician/producer-director/author named Marlin, first conceived of the idea of a light […]
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Your Turn
your turn Message Madness 2000, Saturday, May 6: The subtitle of this daylong training session for grassroots activists is “Getting Your Message Heard by the Media and Policy Makers.” Organized by the Common Sense Foundation, a nonprofit public-policy organization, the workshops teach concerned citizens how to work more effectively with the media and legislators. Workshops […]
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A struggle to succeed
I was born in 1926 in Buchanan County, Va., where I have spent most of my life practicing law, and I have been a close friend of Alfred and Irene Moore and their children for many, many years. I was very disappointed to see Bob Geary’s article [“Mine-owner’s daughter,” March 29] questioning Sen. Bev Perdue’s […]
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In talks
It’s always pleasant to attend events featuring black authors–that aren’t in February. To kick off Durham’s 31st annual Bimbé Festival (May 27-28), Barnes & Noble at New Hope Commons is inviting noted NYU journalism professor and writer David J. Dent to discuss his book, In Search of Black America, on Tuesday, May 2, 2000. Dent, […]
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In movement
On Saturday, April 29, the Even Exchange Dance Theater will perform its second annual improv concert, Walls … real or imagined (pictured below), at Arts Together in Raleigh. Don’t plan to sit back and watch the show: The theater company invites its dancers, musicians, set and lighting designers, and audience to inspire the improvisational process. […]
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Independent Best Sellers
Hardcover 1Leading With the Heart by Mike Krzyzewski (Warner, $24.95). Duke University’s successful basketball coach shares leadership techniques. 2In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent (Atlantic Monthly, $25). A former slave, a Yankee farmer and their children fight to reconcile their pasts with a more hopeful future. 3Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani (Random House, $23.95). […]
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TAAS Anime Festival
Anime, or Japanese animation (anime fans dislike the word “Japanimation”), is a slickly drawn art form that covers everything from features for children to more adult-themed thrillers. Most stories are thoroughly fantastic, with storylines that are often incomprehensible to Americans raised on Hollywood endings. To be sure, anime is a way of life in Japan, […]
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In release parties
Jennyanykind (pictured above) will lay down their bluesy roots rock at two CD release shows this week. The band, which wowed the likes of John Cale and Jody Stephens at their recent SXSW set in Austin, have generated a righteous buzz for their latest album, the darkly beautiful I Need You. Twins Michael and Mark […]
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In stillness
More than 50 pieces of original artwork by area sculptors will be on display at Sculpture on the Green (pictured left), part of Chapel Hill’s Apple Chill festival. From 1 p.m to 6 p.m. on April 29 and 30, in McCorkle Place at UNC-Chapel Hill, you can peruse the indoor, outdoor, interactive and installation sculptures, […]
