Regardless of whether or not lobsters have real “feelings,” or just built-in biological mechanisms to insure survival (“land, bad–water, good”), they’re certainly not equipped to live on a handful of seaweed atop the ice in a grocery store seafood display. And they don’t–not more than three or four days, anyway, which is how long it […]
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Durham’s Own
Born and raised in the Piedmont, John Dee Holman is a self-taught musician, and to blues aficionados, the man when it comes to being a living, performing exponent of the Piedmont Blues. While the Delta Blues went north to become “Chicago Blues” and Texas bluesmen pioneered the West Coast Blues, the northern migration of African […]
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A Home of One’s Own
With the Triangle’s steadily increasing reputation as a great place to live, work and/or retire, home prices have risen accordingly. For longtime residents, especially those in the lower-to-middle income bracket, this means trying not to get priced out of your neighborhood while bidding against developers and investors in an area with a limited number of […]
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A Family Affair
There’s nothing more desolate than a well-frequented bar on a Sunday morning. But on this particular Sunday morning, Henry’s Bistro is playing host to artist brothers Kevin and Laird Dixon, both sporting paint-splattered shirts and tousled hair, each holding a cigarette the same way, both in a hyper-aware state caused by long days–and nights–of preparation […]
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Unsung Heroes
This issue of Volume is dedicated to “unsung heroes,” those behind-the-scenes players who make a difference in the quality of our local music scene. Todd Fjelsted introduces us to Grover Williamson, a New Orleans native who brought that city’s tradition of fine food and live music to Raleigh in the form of Humble Pie, now […]
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Singin’ for Your Supper
As far as unsung heroes in the local music scene go, the Carrboro ArtsCenter stands tall. From its humble beginning 25 years ago (the upstairs of what’s now the Armadillo Grill), the ArtsCenter has consistently provided a stage for everything from avant-garde jazz to touring international groups. They’ve survived the gentrification (some would say yuppification) […]
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Brave New Home
The projected ideal home life of the future (remember George Jetson’s conveyor belt, robot-assisted morning regimen?) is one in which humans spend less time on work, less time on household chores, as automation increasingly takes over. But do we really want a digital, hooked-up lifestyle where our most important companion and tool will be our […]
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Hell’s Scribe
“We like to know when we’re being taped.” So says Sonny Barger, legendary leader of the Oakland chapter of the Hell’s Angels back in their cross-country riding, brawling, gang-banging, B-movie inciting heyday. We’re about to tuck into cheeseburgers at the Roadhouse Cafe, adjacent to the Harley-Davidson shop in Durham (“It’s got all the food groups,” […]
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Down with the “D”
If you’re not a comedy aficionado you may have missed the whole Tenacious D phenomenon: The hefty rock duo, as un-heroin chic as you can get (two 30-somethings who look like they enjoy those road meals), have ingested every arena band cliché, every “we’re gonna rock your socks off” pose you can think of, to […]
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The Faint
Omaha. Home of emo-sobber Connor Oberst’s Bright Eyes and Saddle Creek Records, an oasis amid the dust, slaughterhouses and flatlands of mid-America. Hardly the place to host the rebirth of synth-pop a la early Duran Duran and The Human League, Depeche Mode, Heaven 17, OMD and more. But The Faint, after their last sexually charged […]