In recent years, companies nationwide have fought to keep opera profitable and relevant. In Raleigh, NC Opera just put on the best-selling show in company history.
Brian Howe
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With Ambitious Youth-led Music Festival, Local History Repeats Itself In the Best Way
The volunteer-run Big Pop Show, which sprawls throughout the Triangle March 20-23, is grounded in timeless music festival principles: DIY, RIYL, and IRL.
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Thinking With the Body
Active Imagination gathers local musicians and dancers for a festival where experimentation, intuition, and intimacy drive new work.
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Ten Local Songs We Loved in 2025 (And One for the New Year)
A non-comprehensive list of songs that stuck with us this year, with releases from Triangle artists like Reese McHenry, Jooselord, Tre. Charles, Joseph Decosimo, and more.
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Exile from Main Street
Little Gem brings sprightly cocktails and a music-infused ethos
to the suburbs of Chapel Hill.
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Kayla E. Thought Her Comics Were Too Private to Publish. With “Precious Rubbish,” She’s Now Created a National Hit.
Published this spring by Fantagraphics, “Precious Rubbish” harnesses peppy midcentury design to tell a harrowing story of family dysfunction in rural Texas.
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At the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, a Living Archive and a Look Forward
From The Rock Wall, an ongoing project of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, is a vast repository of oral histories from Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s historically Black neighborhoods.
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Local Releases We Loved in 2024
A chronological journey through the Triangle releases that stuck with us this year, including Sonny Miles, Magic Tuber Stringband, Fancy Gap, XOXOK, and many more.
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How Daniel Levin Learned to Want Yellow
The Durham cellist gave up a career in classical music for a life in free improvisation. Sometimes that looks like using the cello as something between an inner dowsing rod and a form of ESP.
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The Original Schooner Reforms To Celebrate the Anniversary of a Local Indie Rock Classic
Talking with Reid Johnson about the 20th-anniversary reissue of ‘You Forget About Your Heart.’