Sound Factory 107 Edinburgh Drive S, Ste. 157, Cary The phrase “DIY” has very specific connotations, and none of them apply to Cary’s affluent MacGregor Downs. But across Edinburgh Drive from the neighborhood’s lush entrance, in the unassuming MacGregor Village shopping center, is Sound Factory. The venue is just a few weeks old, but if […]
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Go Chasing Waterfalls: Don’t Stick to the Rivers and the Lakes That You’re Used To
You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone in North Carolina who loves waterfalls as much as Casey Marcum. In 2012, after ditching a career in mortgage and banking, relocating to the Triangle from Nashville, and recovering from a serious head injury, Casey Marcum went on a hike that changed his life. He found himself captivated by […]
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Hell Is Hot: How Squirrel Nut Zippers Accidentally Sold a Million Records
The Squirrel Nut Zippers never planned on hitting the big time, but an ambitious label rep and fortuitous timing helped the single “Hell” explode on mainstream radio.
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Stories on Skin with Errol Engelbrecht, Owner of Raleigh’s Blue Flame Tattoo
Nearly twenty years ago, Errol Engelbrecht opened up Blue Flame Tattoo, a Raleigh shop that would grow to be one of the best-reputed outlets for body art in the Triangle. Though he still owns the business, Engelbrecht retired from tattooing three years ago due to a long-term work-related ailment. He’s since turned his artistic focus […]
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Score One for Disney: Daniel Hart Discusses His Biggest Musical Project Yet
Though he now lives in Dallas, Texas, Daniel Hart has left an indelible imprint on the Triangle. From 2002 to 2009, he lived in Chapel Hill and crafted gorgeous songs with his band The Physics of Meaning; you can hear his deft violin work on records by Mount Moriah, Megafaun, Annuals, and The Rosebuds, to […]
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D’ohverwhelmed
There’s a significant gap between recognizing a joke and actually getting it, a concept that has been illustrated in exhaustive detail to me over the past several years through references to The Simpsons. I wasn’t allowed to watch it as a child—it was rude, a terrible sin—and it never piqued my interest enough to risk […]
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The Durham Hotel’s Mark Daumen Concocts a Coffee Soda That Really Works
THE DURHAM HOTEL 315 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham Coffees and sodas tend to be either-or situations. Though they have caffeine in common, the former is traditionally hot, black, and bitter, while the latter, packed with heaps of tooth-melting sugar, most often arrives over ice. But Mark Daumen, manager of The Durham Hotel’s coffee program, […]
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Kym Register and Endless Endless Discuss the Easygoing New Video for Sam Evian
When Sam Owens launched his solo project, Sam Evian, he called upon Adam Heathcott and Sara Padgett Heathcott for creative direction. The two released Enter Ghost by Owens’s band Celestial Shore on their label Hometapes in 2014—the same year the two relocated from Portland to Durham—but this would be a new sort of collaboration. Instead […]
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Real Independence: Getting Weird with Evil Wiener on July 4
EVIL WIENER ROAST MONDAY, JULY 4 THE KRAKEN, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., free Twice a year, a combination of the calendar and cosmic forces motivates Chapel Hill’s long-running Evil Wiener to reconveneonce at Christmas, and now on the Fourth of July. “Someone has to encourage Evil Wiener,” says Billy Sugarfix, who’s led the rollicking ensemble […]
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Got Free Ticketmaster Vouchers? Here’s the Shows Where You Can Use Them
Last week, Ticketmaster announced it would grant customers free vouchers for shows, based on a settlement over the company’s failure to disclose its often-exorbitant ticketing fees. If you’ve bought concert tickets through the monolith during the last several years, you probably have at least a few free concert tickets waiting for you in your Ticketmaster […]