The first outing of The Pinhook and NorthStar’s telethon-style marathon fundraiser featured almost ten hours of music and shenanigans, so we hope you remember how to stay up late.
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Watch Toshi Reagon’s Visionary Folk Opera “Parable of the Sower”
No one who saw the adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s sci-fi novel at Carolina Performing Arts in 2017 will ever forget it. Now a concert version is available, but only once, this Friday.
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ShaLeigh Dance Works Gives the Coronavirus-Canceled “The In-Between” a Proper Virtual Premiere
The dance theater company’s latest work was thrown into chaos at The Fruit as social distancing orders came down, but it was filmed for this virtual do-over.
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Six Dreams in the Dark: A Movie Theater Elegy
Movie theaters will return, but to me, they were already a lost world.
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A Bounteous Spring in Quarantine with Local Quote-Unquote “Label” Potluck Foundation
As the indie-rock co-op floods our feeds with new records, its founders discuss the sweet spot where haphazard planning meets good vibes and pull some choice cuts out of the archive.
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If You Want Live Music Back, Tell Your Representatives to Support the National Independent Venue Association
Today I let Richard Burr, Thom Tillis, and G.K. Butterfield know that I was in favor of federal aid for venues, and it only took a few seconds.
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Nothing Says “Civilization” Like Movie-Theater Popcorn
The Carolina Theatre’s takeout concessions might save us from a total descent into just watching cringe memes and old episodes of “Boy Meets World.”
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Raleigh Little Theatre Names Heather J. Strickland as Executive Director
Strickland follows a distinguished tenure by Charles Phaneuf as the leader of the venerable community theater.
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Treee City Shows Love to Skylar Gudasz, FootRocket, theDeeepEnd, and More in New Rainforest Café Mix
“I think there’s so much great music here that is isolated in a corner of SoundCloud, and putting all these people together on a mix is a way to build the web of artists in conversation with each other.”
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From Raleigh to Jamaica, Rohan Da Great Is Building a One-Man Dancehall Dynasty
After the release of his internationally buzzing “6 Love” EP, we spoke with Rohan about his reggae roots in Brooklyn, mastering the game in North Carolina, and the local reggae scene.
