Collateral Existence ALKHAWF Friday, Feb. 23–Sunday, Feb. 25 The Fruit, Durham www.omgrowndancers.com There’s a promising, accessible new contemporary dance company in Durham. If its technique and ambition are more advanced than its artistic vision, that’s a strong foundation to build on. The choreographer Courtney Owen-Muir’s OM Grown Dancers spent a year working in Raleigh until […]
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Instant Best-Seller The Woman in the Window Is Much More Than Gone Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on the Train
It’s one of those publishing-world stories journalists just can’t resist: a first-time novelist writing under a pseudonym sparks a bidding war with his au courant psychological crime thriller and winds up selling it to the publishing house where he works as an editor (handling Agatha Christie books, no less), then instantly enters the New York […]
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A Spectacular Performance by Two Dancers and Sixty-Four Wee Robots Showed What Duke’s New Black Box Theater Can Do
ANTONY HAMILTON & ALISDAIR MACINDOE: MEETING Thursday, Feb. 1–Saturday, Feb. 3 The Rubenstein Art Center’s von der Heyden Studio Theater, Durham www.dukeperformances.com Last weekend, UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke both held grand openings for new venuesCurrent ArtSpace & Studio and the von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center, respectivelywhose long, unwieldy names bely […]
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Watch a Video and Read an Interview About Paul Dresher Ensemble’s Wondrous Sound Maze. Then Go Play It Yourself.
On Friday, at the grand opening of UNC’s new venue, Current ArtSpace & Studio, we grabbed an impromptu interview with Bay Area composer and instrument inventor Paul Dresher, whose Sound Maze inaugurates the space through Tuesday. Read the chat and watch the video below; then go play with it yourself. It’s a lot of fun […]
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We Maybe Made Jens Lekman a Little Uncomfortable by Knowing Way Too Much About His Music
JENS LEKMAN Friday, Feb. 2, 9 p.m., $15 The Pinhook, Durham www.thepinhook.com “Right now, I’m not sure where I live,” the globe-hopping musician Jens Lekman said when we reached him in Gothenburg, Sweden, his hometown. If you’re a fan, you know the place as the setting of several of Lekman’s hilarious, insightful, elaborate indie-pop autobiographiesbut […]
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A Cynic’s Guide to Date Nights For Every Bump in the Road
Human beings enjoy a bewildering variety of pastimes. How are you supposed to guess if your date would like to be asked to the museum or the bowling alley, to go on a romantic adventure or just Netflix and chill? Food is the great equalizer because everybody gotta eat. Plus, dining out is a socially […]
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A Working Musician Turned Aspiring Author Applies a Music-Scene Ethos to the New Flyleaf Reading Series Voice Rising
VOICE RISING FEAT. DANIEL WALLACE Monday, Jan. 29, 7 p.m., free Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill www.flyleafbooks.com When Michael Venutolo-Mantovani moved to Chapel Hill from New York City three years ago, he was fleeing the precarious existence of a rock musician for the safer, more stable pastures of … wait for it … freelance writing. (Disclosure: […]
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In a Volatile, Ambiguous The Master Builder, Tamara Kissane Recasts Ibsen’s Fin de Siècle Male Architect as a Modern Woman
THE MASTER BUILDER Through Saturday, Feb. 3 Mystery Brewing Company, Hillsborough www.littlegreenpig.com Local theater is having a “women in architecture” moment. Raleigh Little Theatre is staging What We’re Up Against, Theresa Rebeck’s dark comedy about a female architect angrily slamming into the sexism of a field clogged with egoistic men. Meanwhile, Little Green Pig is […]
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Part Two of Our Early Look at the Bounty Spilling onto the INDY’s Pages and Triangle Stages Each Week This Year
Last week, we ran down dozens of things we’re looking forward to seeing in early 2018. Now, let’s sprint through the remainder of the year in theater, dance, comedy, and artbearing in mind that only the largest or most established presenters book this far out. Plenty more is coming down the pipeline, though you could […]
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We’ll Have a Crystal Ball: Glimpse What’s Coming to the INDY’s Pages and Triangle Stages in 2018
In this tiny lull between 2017 and 2018 shows, we’re whetting our appetites for the bounty coming our way this year. Here’s a sneak peek at what you’ll see in the INDY and on local stages each weekand yes, it took us two pages just to get through March. Part two’s coming next week. JAN. […]
