Organizations like Skin and Bones Theater and Film Durham are working to build a local cinema scene that both reflects and benefits the community around it.
Brian Howe
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Hearing Jazz and Seeing Art the Fred Joiner Way, With a Poetry Debut 50 Years in the Making
“The Mirror in Our Music,” a new collection by former Carrboro Poet Laureate Fred Joiner, is rich in references to art, music, and collaboration.
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Even When Trying Just to Sing Indie Rock, Long Relief’s Paul Blest Keeps Reporting the News
Out May 22, Raleigh rock band Long Relief’s cathartic debut LP, ‘Win Some, Lose Some,’ keeps social issues and political disillusionment soundly at the fore.
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How North Carolina Opera Is Beating the Odds
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.
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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.