ALL THE QUEEN’S HORSES Monday, March 19, 4:30 p.m., free Park Shops building, Room 210 101 Current Drive, Raleigh www.allthequeenshorsesfilm.com Rita Crundwell, a comptroller in Dixon, Illinois, embezzled $53 million from the small city’s coffers over the course of decades. The largest municipal fraud ever recorded in U.S. history, it wrecked Dixon’s economy. Even more […]
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World-Champion Ice Skater and Fashion Designer Jannika Lilja Combines Her Talents to Boost the Triangle’s Synchronized Skating Scene
Winter Rockerland Friday, Dec. 15, 8:30 p.m., $7–$14 Garner Ice House, Garner www.formationsynchro.com Holiday Spectacular Saturday, Dec. 16, 2 p.m., free Raleigh IcePlex, Raleigh www.formationsynchro.com In matching bright-striped costumes, the ice skaters at the Polar Ice House of Cary link arms and lean forward in a line, backs flat, each extending one leg straight behind […]
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Two Local Baristas Put North Carolina Coffee on the World Stage
In the cluttered workroom of Back Alley Coffee Roasters in Wake Forest, a champion is being made. At a small bench flanked by an industrial-size coffee roaster and five-gallon plastic buckets filled with coffee beans, Kyle Ramage, the 2017 U.S. Barista Champion, is meticulously pulling espresso shots. He’s practicing under the watchful eye of Lemuel […]
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N-a-a-a-a-maste: Goat Yoga Clip-Clops From Oregon to the Triangle
Sara Wakefield was surprised when Cookie shit on her yoga mat. But, in all fairness, Cookie is a goat, and Wakefield had been warned that accidents might happen. It’s a cloudy Sunday morning, and Wakefield, with her friends Carolyn Gilbert and Laura Andrews, is taking a “Yoga with Goats and Lambs” class from Bikram Yoga […]
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In New PBS Doc The Great War, a Local Historian Unearths the Valor and Betrayal of African Americans in World War I
THE GREAT WAR 9 p.m., April 10–12 www.pbs.org A hundred years ago, the United States entered World War I, beginning a profound legacy for the country’s global economic and military standing in the twentieth century. On April 10, to mark the centennial, the PBS television program American Experience premieres The Great War, a three-part, six-hour […]
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On CBS Reality Show Hunted, Expert Trackers Ruthlessly Pursue a Hillsborough Couple Gone Off the Grid
HUNTED: SEASON ONE FINALE Wednesday, March 1, 8 p.m. www.cbs.com/shows/hunted Hunted, a new reality show on CBS, is dressed in the genre’s usual sexiness and sillinessbreathless pauses, nervous thousand-yard stares, frenetic camera work, edited tension, and just the right balance of cast diversity. But it also highlights a naked truth of our times: there is […]
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