WONDROUS WOMEN: SOLOS CREATED BY THE ARTISTS FOR THEMSELVES Friday, July 13 (8 p.m.) & Saturday, July 14 (7 p.m.), $12–$51 The Carolina Theatre, Durham www.americandancefestival.org Over the past few years, I’ve found myself at a number of shows that are what I like to call post-post-postmodern dance: performances that might feature text and props, […]
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Summit Church’s JD Greear Wants to Take the Southern Baptist Convention Into the Twenty-First Century. The Old Guard Would Rather He Not.
Twenty years ago, Homestead Heights was a traditional, red-brick Baptist church located off of Duke Street in northern Durham. Founded in the early sixties, the congregation had swelled and then waned; by the late nineties, only about 350 people were left. Observers would’ve been forgiven for assuming it had fallen victim to the decline in […]
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Urban Agriculture Could Potentially Produce a Tenth of the World’s Food. Is Grass Really the Best Use for Your Yard?
This weekend, the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association is holding its popular Piedmont Farm Tour, which opens forty-five Triangle-area farms to the public. General interest in traditional farming is well-established here; this is the twenty-third year of the tour. But meanwhile, there’s a rising fascination, in the region and around the nation, with another kind of […]
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Dance Review: Burnished Movement, Striking Set Design, and a Certain Superb Style in Nederlands Dans Theater’s Dreamy Show at UNC
Nederlands Dans Theater ★★★★½Thursday, March 29 UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill It’s not even close to fair. Dancers around the U.S. work on shoestrings to create modest performances with minimal sets, and even some of the country’s most renowned modern dance companies struggle to make ends meet. And then in waltzes some European company, basking […]
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Local Food Councils in Wake County Are Tackling Hunger Issues Head-on
As the Trump administration reconsiders the federal government’s longtime commitment to alleviate hunger through food stamps, Wake County has taken up the issue through local policy. Over the last three years, key stakeholders in a range of fields have developed a plan for addressing hunger in the county. And now they’re poised to seriously move […]
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John Little and Other Developers Are Gentrifying Durham’s East End. They’re Not About to Apologize.
“Secretly, the city council and everyone wants it to get improved, they just don’t want to get the blame.”
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A New Thrift store at the Scrap Exchange Might Seem Redundant, But It’s Good for the Future of the Nonprofit—And the Triangle
SCRAP THRIFT 2020 Chapel Hill Rd., Ste. 31 919-688-6960 www.scrapexchange.org In Thursday, December 14, the Scrap Exchange opened a new conventional thrift store at its Lakewood headquarters. Occupying eighteen thousand square feet in a space across the parking lot from the main buildinga spot formerly occupied by Thrift World and the Durham Economic Resource Center’s […]
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How Raleigh’s John Pavlovitz Went from Fired Megachurch Pastor to Rising Star of the Religious Left
Little by little, John Pavlovitz is becoming a familiar name among progressives, particularly progressive Christians. And he has Donald Trump to thank for it. Pavlovitz, forty-eight, is a Wake Forest resident, minister at North Raleigh Community Church, and father of two young kids. He’s also the writer behind Stuff that Needs to be Said, a […]
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Dance Review: Proto-Oversharer Samuel Pepys Goes to Pieces in Big Dance Theater’s 17c
Big Dance Theater: 17c ★★★½ Thursday, Nov. 9 & Friday, Nov. 10 UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill 17c, Big Dance Theater’s newest production, begins before the house lights go down. A woman in a curly seventeenth-century wig stands before the audience and gives a little background on what’s coming up. She explains that the protagonist […]
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The Seventeenth-Century Diaries of an Oversharing Misogynist Become Timely Fodder for Big Dance Theater in 17c
BIG DANCE THEATER: 17C Thursday, Nov. 9 (7:30 p.m.) & Friday, Nov. 10 (8 p.m.), $10 UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill www.carolinaperformingarts.org I’m a huge sucker for dance theater. The performance form that marries theater and dance has always struck me as having incredible promise. At its best, dance theater tempers theater’s plodding linearity while […]